Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Dennis Tedlock. "Learning to Listen: Oral Poetry as History." In The Oral Impulse in Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. William V. Spanos and Robert Kroetsch. Special number of Boundary 2, 3, iii: 707-26.

An illustration of his method of visual scoring of oral material to recover its oral/aural reality. The text itself is in fact a discussion of how and why one makes such a libretto for performance.
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