| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Songs -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Songs. |
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Songs -- Literary themes, motives.
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Songs -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
500-1400 |
| Subject |
Singing -- Philosophy.
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Singing -- Philosophy. |
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Singing. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kay, Sarah. Medieval song from Aristotle to opera. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501763885 (DLC) 2021045725 (OCoLC)1262641500 |
| ISBN |
9781501763892 electronic book |
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150176389X electronic book |
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9781501763908 electronic book |
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1501763903 electronic book |
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9781501763885 hardcover |
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