Medieval song from Aristotle to opera / Sarah Kay.
Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvéres from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, 'Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera' contends that song is not best analyzed as 'words plus music' but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cornell University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Cornell scholarship online.
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| Summary: | Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvéres from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, 'Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera' contends that song is not best analyzed as 'words plus music' but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality - as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils - Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501763908 9781501763892 |
| DOI: | 10.7591/cornell/9781501763885.001.0001 |