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Where Sight Meets Sound - The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,468
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Where Sight Meets Sound - The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing (Hardcover): Emily Zazulia

Where Sight Meets Sound - The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing (Hardcover)

Emily Zazulia

Series: AMS Studies in Music

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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. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower, faster, or starting on a different pitch than what is written. By the end of the century composers had begun tasking singers with solving elaborate puzzles to produce sounds whose relationship to the written notes is anything but obvious. These instructions, which appear by turns unnecessary and confounding, challenge traditional conceptions of music writing that understand notation as an incidental consequence of the desire to record sound. This book explores innovations in late-medieval music writing as well as how modern scholarship on notation has informed-sometimes erroneously-ideas about the premodern era. Drawing on both musical and music-theoretical evidence, this book reframes our understanding of late-medieval musical notation as a system that was innovative, cutting-edge, and dynamic-one that could be used to generate music, not just preserve it.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: AMS Studies in Music
Release date: March 2022
Authors: Emily Zazulia (Assistant Professor)
Dimensions: 244 x 164 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-755191-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Early music (up to c 1000 CE)
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Early music (up to c 1000 CE)
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)
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LSN: 0-19-755191-2
Barcode: 9780197551912

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