Love, self, and song -- The turn of the voice -- Delinquent descorts and medieval lateness -- Changing the subject of the chanson d'amour -- The hybrid voice of monophonic motets -- Machaut's turn to monophony -- Medieval expressionism
Summary
'Giving Voice to Love' investigates self-consciousness in the musical settings. Moments and examples where voice, melody rhythm, form, and genre seem to comment on music itself and tell us about musical responses to the courtly chanson tradition, and musical reflections on the complexity of self-expression
