Where Sight Meets Sound The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing |
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Author:
| Zazulia, Emily |
Series title: | AMS Studies in Music Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-755191-2 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2021 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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Late-medieval composers delighted in complicating the relationship between their music's written and sung forms, often tasking singers with reading their music in unusual ways-from slowing down a melodic line, to turning it backwards or upside down, even omitting certain notes or rests. These manipulations increasingly yielded music that was aurally all but unrecognizable as a derivative of the notated original. This book uses these unorthodox applications of notation to understand how...
More DescriptionLate-medieval composers delighted in complicating the relationship between their music's written and sung forms, often tasking singers with reading their music in unusual ways-from slowing down a melodic line, to turning it backwards or upside down, even omitting certain notes or rests. These manipulations increasingly yielded music that was aurally all but unrecognizable as a derivative of the notated original. This book uses these unorthodox applications of notation to understand how late-medieval composers thought about the tool of musical notation. It argues that these compositions foreground notation in ways that resonate with discourses about media and technology today.