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Elizabeth Eva Leach - Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages - 9780801444913 - V9780801444913
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Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages

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Description for Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 71. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; AVA; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 169 x 242 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.

Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801444913
SKU
V9780801444913
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Elizabeth Eva Leach
Elizabeth Eva Leach is University Lecturer in Music at the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College.

Reviews for Sung Birds: Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages
"An interesting and encouraging intersection between the 'two cultures' of science and humanities is the emergence of books and conferences on whether or not the delightful songs of birds can be considered a form of music, situated as it is in a time of fascination with questions of animal consciousness with the realization that under sexual selection, animals make choices ... Read more

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