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
Main Author: Leach, Elizabeth Eva (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fåglar > musik.
Fågelsång.
Musikhistoria > medeltiden.
Vögel
Natur
Musikästhetik
Musik
Mittelalter
Lyrik
Poetry, Medieval.
Nature in music.
Music
Birds.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Nature dans la musique.
Musique > 500-1400 > Histoire et critique.
Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism.
Birds > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism.
Songs and music.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages): illustrations, music
ISBN:9781501727573

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