Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
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Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan...
Sarah Kay is a Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge, and Professor Emerita at New York University. She is the author of Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries and Parrots and Nightingales.
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