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Words and Music in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Words and Music in Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This selection of nineteen essays by Nigel Wilkins, in English and
in French, is characterised by an inter-disciplinary approach
crossing the borders between music, language, literature, history,
palaeography and iconography. The principal topic is lyric poetry
in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, mostly French and
English, both with and without music, and in various contexts.
Guillaume de Machaut, the dominant poet-musician of the age, is the
central figure: his influence is traced in poets such as Froissart,
Deschamps, Christine de Pisan, Charles d'Orleans, Villon, Gower and
Chaucer, and in the poet-musicians who came after him. The question
of patronage is investigated. The development of the principal
lyric forms, rondeau, ballade and virelai, is explored on both
sides of the Channel, as is the way they were used, for example in
miracle plays and in court entertainment. A Flemish painting of
1493 helps us discover the rAle of music in the ceremonies of trade
and religious guilds; a memorial brass from King's Lynn reveals the
importance of music in the ceremonial of feasts. Wider themes are
also explored, such as the association of music with the Devil, the
use of several languages combined in certain musical contexts, and
the controversial role of inspiration in musical composition.
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