Giving Voice to Love
Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 15 December 2011
- ISBN 9780199757244
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 160x239x30 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The lyrics of medieval "courtly love" songs are characteristically self-conscious. Giving Voice to Love investigates similar self-consciousness in the musical settings. Moments and examples where voice, melody, rhythm, form, and genre seem to comment on music itself tell us about musical responses to the courtly chanson tradition, and musical reflections on the complexity of self-expression.
MoreLong description:
Grafting musicology and literary studies together in an unprecedented manner, Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut investigates the "courtly love" songs of the twelfth to late fourteenth centuries and explores the paradoxical relationship of music and self expression in the Middle Ages. While these love songs often conceive and express the autonomous subject - the lyric "I" represented by a single line of melody - they also engage highly conventional musical and poetic language. This paradox was understood by the poets and became the basis for irony, parody and intertextual referencing, which instilled the lyrics with a characteristic self-consciousness that reflected the unstable conditions for self-expression.
Author Judith Peraino illustrates that similar operations are at work in the musical settings. Examining moments where voice, melody, rhythm, form, and genre come dramatically to the fore and seem to comment on music itself, Giving Voice to Love strives not only to hear self-expression in these love songs, but to understand how musical elements give voice to the complex issues of self and subjectivity encoded in medieval love.
Through its approach to the exploration of "courtly love" songs, Giving Voice to Love serves as a model for methodological integration and provides musicologists, literary scholars and medieval historians with a common analytical ground.
Giving Voice to Love, then, itself presents a plurality of voices - postmodern, traditionalist, overt, and covert - making this book by Judith A. Peraino a valuable contribution to the study of medieval song, as well as to debates on the future direction(s) of medieval musicology.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
About the Companion Website
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Map of Medieval France
Introduction: Love, Self, and Song
Chapter One: The Turn of the Voice
Chapter Two: Delinquent Descorts and Medieval Lateness
Chapter Three: Changing the Subject of the Chanson d'amour
Chapter Four: The Hybrid Voice of Monophonic Motets
Chapter Five: Machaut's Turn to Monophony
Conclusion: Medieval Expressionism
Bibliography
Index of Songs and Motets
Index
