Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera

by Sarah Kay

Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouv?res 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 songs and both earlier poetry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501763881
• ISBN13: 9781501763885
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"