Medieval song from Aristotle to opera / Sarah Kay.

Author/creator Kay, Sarah author.
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Descriptionxix, 270 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index.
LCCN 2021045725
ISBN9781501763885 hardcover
ISBN1501763881 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic publication

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3845 .K284 2022 ✔ Available Place Hold