Sung Birds

by 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 then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444918
• ISBN13: 9780801444913
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher