Introduction : the music and performance of oral epics / Karl Reichl -- Epic as music : rhapsodic models of Homer in Plato's Timaeus and Critias / Gregory Nagy -- Music of south Slavic epics / Stephen Erdely -- The singing of Albanian heroic poetry / Wolf Dietrich -- Creativity in performance : words and music in Balkan and old French epic / Margaret H. Bessinger -- The singing traditions of Turkmen epic poetry / Dzhamilya Kurbanova -- The performance of the Karakalpak Zhyrau / Karl Reichl -- Dudak de*gmez : a form of poetry competition among the A*siks of Anatolia / Emine Gürsoy-Naskali --The musical curtain : music as a structural marker in epic performance / Hiromi Lorraine Sakata -- The power of performance : west Mongolian heroic epics / Carole Pegg -- Singing epics among the Palawan highlanders (Philippines) : musical and vocal styles / Nicole Revel -- Word and music : the epic genre of the Fulbe of Massina (Mali) / Christiane Seydou -- The performance of old Norse Eddic poetry : a retrospective / Joseph Harris -- Reflections on the music of medieval narrative poetry / John Stevens.
