Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel

by Emma Dillon

Overview

This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript. It sets the manuscript against the wider culture of Parisian book-making, showing how in devising new systems of design and folio layout, its creators developed a new kind of materiality in music. It also illustrates how music is expressive in ways that are unperformable apart from its visual representation, and argues that the new attitudes to material music making embodied in the manuscript serve as a model for exploring other music manuscripts to emerge in late medieval France.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521813716
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/07/2002
Series:	New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism , #9
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Emma Dillon is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. She specialises in French medieval music and is a contributor to Fauvel Studies (1998).

Table of Contents

Prologue; 1. Contexts; 2. Music and the book: approaches to the interpretation of manuscripts; 3. Chaillou's authorial presence; Interpolation: the conquest of the parchment; 4. Author and scribe: a compiler for fr. 146; 5. Music and the narratives of compilation; 6. The poetic uses of song space.

Editorial Reviews

"Dillon's book is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval French literature or its manuscripts. The study is informed by Dillon's training as a musicologist, but it will be completely accessible to literary scholars, paleographers, and codicologists." Speclum

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