Lietvārdi latviešu metālmūzikas tekstos

Abstract

Traditionally, metal music is characterised by quality, but in recent years different computer programmes and tools have increasingly been used to help one to analyze texts from a quantitative perspective. The aim of this research is to identify and describe the most common nouns in the Latvian metal music lyrics from a lexico-semantic point of view. The subject of the study – band lyrics in Latvian. Main source: Encyclopaedia Metallum (www.metal-archives.com), which is the largest metal music web resource. The subject of the study is metal band lyrics in Latvian from January 2008 to December 2019, which can be found in full-length CD or digital albums. Since many albums have come out in English or other languages, only 136 songs with Latvian lyrics were found. The AntConc programme identified the presence of 4761 words and word forms and a total of 14231 units. Overall, it can be concluded that the most common words, both in metal music lyrics and in the referential corpora (LVK2018), are auxiliary words and pronouns that do not show a specific notion of the character of this music style. The author of this research found and analysed nouns with the highest frequency appearing in the lyrics of at least three songs, which could also become keywords. Among the 12 commonly used nouns, seven lexemes – death, blood, spirit, night, end, earth and sky – reflect the lyrical sounds of metal music and these word forms are not common in the reference corpora, thus allowing them to be identified as keywords in the metal music lyrics. A contextual view allows us to see the characteristics of metal music in the applications of the rest of the word forms – land, time, world, eyes, sun and heart.