Name: Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France
Price: 3371.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Jeserich, Philipp ; Curley, Michael J. ; Rendall, Steven
ISBN: 9781421411248

portada Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France

Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philipp Jeserich

Translated by

Steven Rendall

Michael J. Curley

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language

English

Pages

568

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 14.7 x 4.1 cm

Weight

0.91 kg.

ISBN13

9781421411248

Synopsis "Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France"

A critical study of the relationship between poetics and music theory in medieval culture and aesthetics.Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L'Art de Dictier, famously casts verse as "natural music" in explicit distinction to song, which Deschamps defines as "artificial." Philipp Jeserich links the significance of the speculative branch of medieval musicology to literary theory and literary production, opening up a field of study that has been largely neglected. Beginning with Augustine and Boethius, he traces the discourse of speculative music theory to the late fifteenth century, giving attention to medieval Latin and vernacular sources. Ultimately, Jeserich calls for the conservatism of Deschamps's poetics and develops a new perspective on the poetics and poetry of the Grands rhétoriqueurs.Given Jeserich's reliance on the intellectual inheritance of late medieval French poetics and poetry, this book will appeal to English-speaking specialists of Old and Middle French, as well as scholars of the French Renaissance. It will also interest English-language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature.

Customers reviews

Have you read this book? Login to add your review.

More customer reviews

0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)

Questions and Answers about the Book

Do you have a question about the book? Login to be able to add your own question.

Opinions about Bookdelivery

More customer reviews

Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France - Jeserich, Philipp ; Curley, Michael J. ; Rendall, Steven

Synopsis "Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France"

Customers reviews

Frequently Asked Questions about the Book

Is the book original?

In what language is the book written?

What is the format of this book?

Questions and Answers about the Book

Opinions about Bookdelivery