Listening to the past, listening in the past -- Sound and the city -- Charivari -- Madness and the eloquence of nonsense -- Sound in prayer -- Sound in prayer books -- Praying with sound : the hours of Jeanne D'Evreux and Walters -- Devotional listening and the Montpellier Codex.
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Among the most memorable innovations of music and poetry in thirteenth-century France was a genre that seemed to privilege sound over sense. The polytextual motet is especially well-known to scholars of the Middle Ages for its tendency to conceal complex allegorical meaning in a texture that, in performance, made words less, rather than more, audible. It is with such musical sound that this book is concerned. What did it mean to create a musical effect so potentially independent from the meaning of words? Is it possible such supermusical effects themselves had significance? The Sense of Sound.
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Title
Sense of sound.
International Standard Book Number
9780199732951
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Auditory perception.
Listening.
Music and literature.
Music-- France-- 500-1400-- History and criticism.