Sung Birds : : Music, Nature, and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages / / Elizabeth Eva Leach.

Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 17 halftones, 16 tables, 38 musical examples
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