Sung birds : music, nature, and poetry in the later Middle Ages / Elizabeth Eva Leach.

By:

Leach, Elizabeth Eva [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations, musicContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781501727573
1501727575

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sung birds.DDC classification:

780.9/02 23

LOC classification:

ML190 .L43 2007eb

Other classification:

LP 19502
LP 23470
LR 57732
LR 56822
9,2

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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.

Review: "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

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index.

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.

"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

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