Ebook: The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330
Author: Emma Dillon
- Genre: Art // Music
- Tags: Music, History and Criticism, Music History, Polyphony, France, French Music
- Series: New Cultural History of Music
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
- Language: English
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This title is a radical re-contextualization of French song from 1260 to 1330. Situating musical sound against sonorities of the city, madness, charivari, and prayer, it argues that the effect of verbal confusion popular in music abounds with audible associations, and that there was meaning in what is often heard as nonsensical.