I was at one point seeing declamation as something apart from musical song settings, but styles of vocal performance that are between speaking and singing are very frequent in the corpus. Isn't that what reading poetry aloud is, essentially? Striking some middle ground. So dramatic declaiming, sprechtstimme, chanting, parlando or recitative styles of singing, everything that is not "just' speaking and everything that is not the singing of arias. More conversational styles of singing in the vernacular, rapping... It is all musical, in that it is an aesthetic organization of sound.
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