Oral Composition

Japanese: オーラル・コンポジション - おーらるこんぽじしょん
Oral Composition

...In other words, the narrator did not recite memorized lyrics, but instead stored up many set phrases, which he selected and chose from when speaking to the audience, freely constructing a story on the spot, and each rendition was original. Through their study of Yugoslav epic poems, M. Parry and A. B. Lord revealed that oral literature was told in this way in pre-literate societies, and called this method oral composition. By looking at the original copies of ancient sekkyo, we can see that sekkyo-bushi was oral literature of this kind before it was written down. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "oral composition" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…すなわち,語り手は,暗記した詞章を語るのではなくて,多くの決まり文句を蓄えていて,聴衆を前にしてそれらを取捨選択しその場で自由に物語を構成しながら語ったのであり,その演出の一回一回がオリジナルなものであったのである。パリーM.ParryとロードA.B.Lordはユーゴスラビアの叙事詩の研究を通して,無文字の社会では口承文芸はこのような方法で語られることを明らかにし,この方法をオーラル・コンポジションと呼んだ。文字に書きとめられる以前の説経節はこのような口承文芸であったことを,古説経の正本を通してうかがうことができる。…

※「オーラル・コンポジション」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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