Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song - download pdf or read online

By Lauren McGuire Jennings

ISBN-10: 1472418883

ISBN-13: 9781472418883

The metaphor of marriage usually describes the connection among poetry and tune in either medieval and sleek writing. whereas the troubadours stand out for his or her tendency to blur the excellence among talking and making a song, among poetry and tune, a definite measure of semantic slippage extends into the area of Italian literature by utilizing style names like canzone, sonetto, and ballata. but, mockingly, students have characteristically pointed out a 'divorce' among tune and poetry because the defining function of early Italian lyric. Senza Vestimenta reintegrates poetic and musical traditions in overdue medieval Italy via a clean review of greater than fifty literary assets transmitting Trecento music texts. those manuscripts were lengthy famous by way of musicologists, yet formerly they've been used to strengthen instead of to debunk the concept that so-called 'poesia according to musica' used to be relegated to the margins of poetic construction. Jennings revises this view by means of exploring how scribes and readers interacted with track as a essentially interdisciplinary paintings shape inside a wide diversity of literary settings. Her examine sheds gentle at the broader cultural global surrounding the reception of the Italian ars nova repertoire through uncovering new, varied readers starting from filthy rich retailers to modest artisans.

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