Words and Music in the Middle Ages Song, Narrative, Dance and Drama, 1050-1350

Name: Words and Music in the Middle Ages Song, Narrative, Dance and Drama, 1050-1350
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ISBN: 9780521339049

ISBN-10: 0521339049

ISBN-13: 9780521339049

Edition: 1986

Authors: John E. Stevens

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This book examines the relation of words and music in England and France during the three centuries following the Norman Conquest. The basic material of the study includes the chansons of the troubadours and trouvres and the varied Latin songs of the period. In addition to these 'lyric' forms, the author discusses the relations of music and poetry in dance-song, in narrative and in the ecclesiastical drama. Professor Stevens examines the ready-made, often unconscious, and misleading assumptions we bring to the study and performance of early music. In particular he affirms the importance of Number, in more than one sense, as a clue to the 'aesthetic' of the greater part of repertoire, to the…

Book details

Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/16/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.72" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.914




Number in Music and Verse



The Courtly Chanson



Latin Songs: Conductus and Cantio



The Sequence



Lai and Planctus



Relations of Speech, Action, Emotion and Meaning



The Dance Song



Narrative Melody I: Epic and Chanson de Geste



Narrative Melody II: Saint's Life and Liturgical narrative



Speech and Melody: Gregorian Chant



Drama I: Liturgy, Ceremony and Play



Drama II: Music, Action and Emotion



Music and Meaning: the Problem of Expressiveness



Melody, Rhythm and Metre



The Theorists



Palaeography, Notion and Presentation



Rhythm and Genre



Works and Music a Balanced Relationship