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...Lord emphasizes that this is a research collection. "The main purpose of it is to determine precisely the way in which oral traditional epic was transmitted," he said, adding that it is a research tool which has not been extensively used by scholars...
...Lord emphasized that the oral tradition is different from singing already composed songs, since the singer had to compose as he performed. "Singers are not learning the sort of composition with performance any longer," said Lord, who said he does not like the term "improvisation...
...collection, compiled by Professor of Slavic Literature Emeritus Albert B. Lord '34 and his teacher, Milman Parry, is the result of the pair's interviews with native storytellers over a period of 40 years beginning when Lord was an undergraduate...
Sitting in his office surrounded by pictures of the native singers and a guale, a lute. Lord explains how the recordings were made. "We would go to a village, find the coffeehouse or tavern and ask the tavern-keeper who sings there," Lord recalls. "We would talk with the singers and gradually introduce the recording equipment," he adds...
...Lord has published several collections of text with the Harvard University Press which he said are unedited. "Some of the transcripts we have from Yugoslavia show change from 11-syllable to 10-syllable lines," he said...