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

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Leach, Elizabeth Eva (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.