| Series |
Figurae
Figurae (Stanford, Calif.) ^A348801
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| Contents |
The resonance of the flesh -- Saint Augustine and the rhythms of embodiment -- Sine Tactu Viri: the musical somatics of Hildegard of Bingen -- Polyphones and sodomites: music and sexual dissidence from Leoninus to Chaucer's pardoner -- The musical body in pain: passion, percussion, and melody in thirteenth-century religious practice -- Musical violence and the pedagogical body: the prioress's tale and the ideologies of "song" -- Orpheus in parts: music, fragmentation, remembrance. |
| Abstract |
Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, from the musicality of sodomy in twelfth-century polyphony to Chaucer's representation of pedagogical violence in the Prioress's Tale, from early Christian writings on the music of the body to the plainchant and poetry of Hildegard of Bingen, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-450) and index. |
| LCCN | 00067945 |
| ISBN | 0804732019 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0804740585 (paper : acid-free paper) |
