Title Words and music in the Middle Ages : song, narrative, dance, and drama, 1050-1350 / John Stevens

Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986

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Description xvii, 554 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Series Cambridge studies in music Cambridge studies in music. Contents Machine derived contents note: Part I. Number in Music and Verse: 1. The Courtly Chanson; 2. Latin Songs: Conductus and Cantio; 3. The Sequence; 4. Lai and Planctus; Part II. Relations of Speech, Action, Emotion and Meaning: 5. The Dance Song; 6. Narrative Melody I: Epic and Chanson de Geste; 7. Narrative Melody II: Saint's Life and Liturgical narrative; 8. Speech and Melody: Gregorian Chant; 9. Drama I: Liturgy, Ceremony and Play; 10. Drama II: Music, Action and Emotion; 11. Music and Meaning: the Problem of Expressiveness; Part III. Melody, Rhythm and Metre: 12. The Theorists; 13. Palaeography, Notion and Presentation; 14. Rhythm and Genre; 15. Works and Music a Balanced Relationship Analysis European vocal music 1050-1350 European vocal music, 1050-1350 - Critical studies Notes Includes indexes Bibliography Bibliography: pages 525-540 Subject Arts, Medieval. Drama, Medieval -- History and criticism. Music and literature -- History -- To 1500. Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism. Music -- 500-1400. Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500. Music and literature. Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism. LC no. 85025496 ISBN 0521245079 0521339049 (paperback)

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