The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330 by Emma Dillon

The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330

Emma Dillon

367 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history music challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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