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In my oral presentation at the Wenner-Gren Symposium “Music, language, speech and brain”, I tried to give an idea of the diversity of combinations of speech and music: I played numerous sound examples, scanning different countries and different times, from ancient to contemporary music. Such scanning is bound to be biased and rushed: yet I thought it would be useful to play the examples rather than merely discuss them. In this article, I shall only make some points illustrated by the examples.
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Risset, JC. (1991). Speech and music combined: an overview. In: Sundberg, J., Nord, L., Carlson, R. (eds) Music, Language, Speech and Brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12670-5_35
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