Research Catalog

Title

Musica naturalis : speculative music theory and poetics, from Saint Augustine to the late Middle Ages in France / Philipp Jeserich ; translated by Michael J. Curley and Steven Rendall.

Author

Jeserich, Philipp

Publication

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Curley, Michael J., 1942-
• Rendall, Steven

Description

x, 553 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Rethinking theory

Uniform Title

• Musica naturalis. English
• Rethinking theory (Baltimore, Md.)

Alternative Title

Musica naturalis.

Subject

• To 1500
• Geschichte 1390-1500
• French poetry > To 1500 > History and criticism
• Music theory > France > History > 500-1400

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Translated from German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Trends in recent research on the late Middle Ages -- Eustache Deschamps, l'art de dictier, 1392. presentation and state of research -- Desiderata in research -- Pagan late antiquity, the Christian Middle Ages -- Augustine, de musica -- Boethius -- Speculative music theory in the Boethian tradition, 500-1500 -- Speculative music theory and poetics -- Instead of a summary. Speculative music theory and poetics in the French vernacular: Evrart De Conty's Echecs amoureux and Glose -- Eustache Deschamps's art de dictier. New connections -- The speculative conception of music and the 'formalist' poetics of the grands rhetoriqueurs.

ISBN

• 9781421411248 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 1421411245 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2013013503

OCLC

• 842307412
• SCSB-11804699

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library