| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 345 pages) : illustrations, music |
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polychrome |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
500-1400 |
| Subject |
Birds -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
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Birds. |
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Nature in music.
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Nature in music. |
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Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs and music.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Songs.
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Songs.
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Music.
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Music.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leach, Elizabeth Eva. Sung birds. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007 0801444918 (DLC) 2006023269 (OCoLC)70668726 |
| ISBN |
9781501727573 (electronic book) |
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1501727575 (electronic book) |
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0801444918 |
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9780801444913 |
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