| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) illustrations (some color) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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, hybridity, imagination, life, and death"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
voice and performance in troubadour song, operatic reading, the anachrony of sound, voice and imagination in Machaut, Guillaume de Machaut |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 23, 2022) |
| Subject |
Songs -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Songs -- Literary themes, motives
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Songs -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
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Singing -- Philosophy
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
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Singing -- Philosophy
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Songs
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021045726 |
| ISBN |
9781501763892 |
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150176389X |
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9781501763908 |
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1501763903 |
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