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Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing

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Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing - Zazulia, Emily
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Late-medieval composers delighted in complicating the relationship between their music's written and sung forms, often tasking singers with reading their music in unusual ways-from slowing down a melodic line, to turning it backwards or upside down, even omitting certain notes or rests. These manipulations increasingly yielded music that was aurally all but unrecognizable as a derivative of the notated original. This book uses these unorthodox applications of notation to understand how late-medieval composers thought about ...

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Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing 2021, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197551912

Hardcover