Medieval song from Aristotle to opera

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"Discusses songs by the troubadours, trouvères, and Guillaume de Machaut, performed live and on the page, in the context of antique, late antique, and medieval thought and poetic practice and in the light of later opera. Topics include cosmology, education, astronomy, breath, beasts, monsters,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kay, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2022
Subjects:
500-1400
Songs > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Songs > Literary themes, motives.
Songs > 500-1400 > History and criticism.
Singing > Philosophy.
Chansons > Philosophie et esthétique.
Chansons > Thèmes, motifs littéraires.
Chansons > 500-1400 > Histoire et critique.
Chant > Philosophie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Singing > Philosophy
Songs
voice and performance in troubadour song, operatic reading, the anachrony of sound, voice and imagination in Machaut, Guillaume de Machaut.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Desiring song: sound, anachrony, and operatic reading
  • Between touch and thought
  • Voice as light
  • Breath of beasts and the ecologies of inspiration
  • Animating air
  • Sweeter than a siren: singing and the balance of enchantment
  • Imagining hearing song
  • Conclusion. Il trovatore and the future of medieval song

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