Hearth & Horn

For me, my work is more related to music than language, usually music from poetry. Parts of work, or particular moods, seem tied to songs, or the songs *are* them. A cappella or choir singing is separate enough from ordinary speech for me, with its humming pronunciation, dropped or added letters, and odd stresses.

Folk singing (of which I am primarily familiar with filk) is similar, although it tends to rely on guitar, an instrument I cannot play, and often keeps the stresses in from ordinary speech.

EX: In "Gently Johnny", the choir pronunciation is Ghaentlay, which to my extremely American ear is smoothing out an ordinary word into a warm caressing sound.

There's something tied to the Landweird specifically in this, I think. Both in use of the 1960's-1970's folk music scene, and the broad repurposing of "standard" poets, particularly British ones, into showing their true power and horror.