Download or read book Music in the Age of Chaucer written by Nigel Wilkins and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer. An absorbing survey... He is an expert on the French song of the period, consequently his wider view of Chaucer's musical background is well worth reading ... and he has much to say about Italy and England. The music is first-rate, and early music performers will find these songs a welcome addition to their repertory. EARLY MUSIC Although Chaucer himself was never described as a musician, a number of his poems are based on French models which belongto a well-established musical tradition, and there are also many references to musical activities in his larger works. This is the starting point for Dr Wilkins's book, which explores both the wider question of the relationship between music and literature in the fourteenth century and the specific area of Chaucer `songs'. He surveys the musical and literary scene in France, Italy and Britain during Chaucer's lifetime, with special emphasis on composers such as Machaut and Landini, and on the differences in national styles. The performance of music and the instruments used are also fully explored. The discussion of Chaucer's musical background is illustrated in the accompanyingsettings presented with words by Chaucer - ten ballades, three complaintes (or chants royaux), and one rondeau. Fully illustrated with black and white photographs and musical examples. New edition; first published 1979, 1980.
Download or read book Music in the Age of Chaucer written by Nigel E. Wilkins and published by Cambridge : D. S. Brewer ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music in the Age of Chaucer written by Nigel Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as a general guide and introduction for those who wish to be better acquainted with fourteenth-century music, an essentially colourful ingredient in a flamboyant and colourful age. Chaucer, though no musician, wrote lyric texts, some of which were certainly intended to be sung.
Download or read book Chaucer and His French Contemporaries written by James I. Wimsatt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer and the Artistic Mind of His Age written by June Emma Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Riverside Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by American Chemical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
Download or read book Music Body and Desire in Medieval Culture written by Bruce W. Holsinger and published by Figurae: Reading Medieval Cult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.
Download or read book A Performer s Guide to Medieval Music written by Ross W. Duffin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music is an essential compilation of essays on all aspects of medieval music performance, with 40 essays by experts on everything from repertoire, voices, and instruments to basic theory. This concise, readable guide has proven indispensable to performers and scholars of medieval music.
Download or read book Chaucer and the Music of the Fourteenth Century written by Clair Colby Olson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music in Chaucer written by David Stanley Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music in Chaucer written by David Stanley Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Music in Chaucer s Life and Art written by Lorna J. Sass and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music in Chaucer written by David Stanley Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Literature in the Age of Chaucer written by Dieter Mehl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers, the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose, including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics, in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories.
Download or read book Essays on the Art of Chaucer s Verse written by Alan T. Gaylord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay into place and comments on its distinctive features, represent a gathering never before attempted: a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, his rhythms, his riming, his versification, his prosody. In his seminal essay, Scanning the Prosodists, Alan Gaylord (the editor of this volume) had asked: To show how Chaucer moves, and in moving, moves us: is that not what the study of his prosody should do? Should it not identify a pattern of sounds in motion, a regular and expressive succession which is part of the order of verse and a major component of its effectiveness? In the two decades that followed that essay, a number of distinguished scholars provided a variety of answers for such questions, arising from the authors' work as metrical theorists, or editors of medieval verse, or literary historians, or critics -- but in every case, such work connected to the initiatives and discoveries of the classroom. The best written and most useful of those essays, by recognized authorities in their fields, have been included in this volume. The volume will be of use to the advanced student of Chaucer and medieval poetry, and to the teacher interested in identifying, explaining, and bringing to life the patterns of sound and sense in Chaucer's verse. The extensive master Bibliography for the whole volume comprises a library of references which will have been reviewed and discussed in the essays.
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