Sonic Bodies : : Text, Music, and Silence in Late Medieval England / / Tekla Bude.
What is the body when it performs music? And what, conversely, is music as it reverberates through or pours out of a performing body? Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise—that music requires a body to perform it—to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sound in History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 11 bw halftones, 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Writing Sonic Bodies
- Chapter 1. Musica Celestis and Canor: Angelic Song in Speculative Music Theory and Rollean Mysticism
- Chapter 2. Touching Music: Walter Hilton, Angels’ Song, and Synaesthesia
- Chapter 3. Attending to The Boke of Margery Kempe
- Chapter 4. Music, Amicitia, and Carthusian Mystical Diaries
- Chapter 5. Piers Plowman, the Sound-Object, and the Singing Community
- Chapter 6. Disability, Music, and Chaucer’s Advental Bodies
- Coda
- Appendix. A Short Exposition of the Manuscripts in Chapter 4
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index