- Description
- xxix, 308 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. Composers sometimes asked singers to read the music in unusual ways-backwards, upside-down, or at a reduced speed-to produce sounds whose relationship to the written notes is anything but obvious. This book explores innovations in late-medieval music writing as well as how modern scholarship on notation has informed-sometimes erroneously-ideas about the premodern era. By viewing notation as a complex technology that did more than record sound, the book revolutionizes the way we think about music's literate traditions"--
- Series Statement
- AMS studies in music series
- Uniform Title
- AMS studies in music.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN
- 9780197551912
- 0197551912
- 9780197551936 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021012729
- OCLC
- YBP 2021012729
- Author
Zazulia, Emily, author.
- Title
Where sight meets sound : the poetics of late-medieval music writing / Emily Zazulia.
- Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
AMS studies in music series
AMS studies in music.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Chronological Term
To 1499