Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel

This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript.

List 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.

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Dillon
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Kallberg (Editor), Ruth Solie (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9780521813716
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81371-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 672 g
• Series: Cambridge Tropical Biology Ser
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Musikgeschichte, MUSIC / History & Criticism