The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry Tapa dura - 1991

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1991. O4 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, crease and some tiny tears on the edges and corners, light discolroation and shelf wear. Book lightly bowed, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x6.25", 157 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In the beginning, poetry and music formed one art: Homer was sung, Beowulf was sung, and the Provençal lyric was sung. Even today, music and poetry remain united in popular song, in opera and oratorio, and in church liturgy and other kinds of sacred music. In these essays, originating from a symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin, six noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship between poetry and music in the Middle Ages. Each essay… Leer más