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Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera

Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera

Kay, Sarah

Hardcover

Literary CriticismFrench HistoryOpera

ISBN10: 1501763881
ISBN13: 9781501763885
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jul 15 2022
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as words plus music but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality--as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils--Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard.

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