Daily Life as Poetry: The Meaning of the Pastoral Songs of the ...

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Table 2. Age of composers* and number of his own songs
Informant Number Age Number of his own songs
1 8 5
2 10 5
3 10 11
4 11 2
5 11 17
6 16 26
7 18 61
8 20 26
9 21 10
10 21 11
11 21 55
12 23 12
13 23 26
14 23 18
15 24 4
16 25 18
17 25 46
18 25 32
19 26 2
20 32 13
21 32 8
22 32 30
23 39 21
24 40 22
25 40 26
26 40 31
27 54 158
28 56 11
29 56 1
30 56 9
31 56 1
32 57 5
33 69 22
745
*All of composers are male.
usually, unpredictably, 'visit' the composer at the same time, rather than emerge in pieces, as in the
case described above. Once the emong is remembered, it is memorized by repeated singing so that it
can be sung when appropriate.