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Where sight meets sound : the poetics of late-medieval music writing /

"The main function of Western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. Composers sometimes asked singers to read the music in unusual ways--backwards, upside-down,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zazulia, Emily (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Series:AMS studies in music.
Subjects:
Musical notation > History > To 1500.
Musical notation > History > 15th century.
Musique > Notation > Histoire > 15e siècle.
History & Criticism.
MUSIC.
Theory.
Instruction & Study.
Genres & Styles.
Musical notation
To 1500
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Metaphors of music writing
  • Shrinking songs : condensing motet tenors
  • Before there was rhythm
  • The danger of false exceptionalism
  • Signs and metasigns
  • The same, but different
  • Small songs made big
  • The aesthetics of transformation
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I: Solomon builds the Temple
  • Appendix 2: Notational fixity and visual citation in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century polyphonic masses.