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 then...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leach, Elizabeth Eva (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism.
Birds > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Nature in music.
Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism.
Musique > 500-1400 > Histoire et critique.
Nature dans la musique.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Birds.
Music
Poetry, Medieval.
Lyrik
Mittelalter
Musik
Musikästhetik
Natur
Vögel
Musikhistoria > medeltiden.
Fågelsång.
Fåglar > musik.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Songs and music.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rational song
  • Birdsong and human singing
  • Birds sung
  • Silent birds : the musical chase and Gace de la Buigne's Le roman des deduis
  • Feminine birds and immoral song
  • Bird debates replayed.

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