Sung Birds : Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages /

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Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and...

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Autor principal: Leach, Elizabeth Eva (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Birds > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism.
Nature in music.
Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism.
Art History.
Musical Arts & Ethnomusicology.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Sigla and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Rational Song
  • 2. Birdsong and Human Singing
  • 3. Birds Sung
  • 4. Silent Birds: The Musical Chase and Gace de la Buigne's. Le Roman des Deduis
  • 5. Feminine Birds and Immoral Song
  • 6. Bird Debates Replayed
  • Appendix 1.1. Two Principal Voices in Grammar and Music
  • Appendix 1.2. Four Species and Two Principal Voices in Grammar and Music Superimposed
  • Appendix 2. Aegidus and Pliny on the Nightingale Compared
  • Appendix 3. 1. The Birdsong Pieces and Their Sources
  • Appendix 3.2. A Note on the Music Examples
  • Appendix 4. Love of Birds using musical authorities
  • Appendix 5. Arnulf's Borrowings from Alan of Lille, De planctu Naturae
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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