Discarding images : reflections on music and culture in medieval France /

For many centuries, the Western imagination has pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey: a journey that took Mankind to a strange country and ended in the Renaissance with his homecoming and the restoration of his inheritance. In this stimulating and provocative book, Christopher Page expl...

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Main Authors: Page, Christopher, Page, Christopher, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997
Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1993
Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press, 1993
Oxford [England] : 1993
Oxford [England] : New York : 1993
Edition:Pbk. ed
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cathedralism
  • 2. The Rise of the Vernacular Motet
  • 3. Johannes de Grocheio, the Litterati, and Verbal Subtilitas in the Ars Antiqua Motet
  • 4. Ars Nova and Algorism
  • 5. Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages, and the Chanson
  • Afterword: Towards the Renaissance?
  • Cathedralism.
  • The rise of the vernacular motet.
  • Johannes de Grocheio, the litterati, and verbal subtilitas in the Ars antiqua motet.
  • Ars nova and algorism.
  • Huizinga, The waning of the Middle Ages, and the chanson.
  • Afterword: Towards the Renaissance?
  • 1 Cathedralism
  • 2. The Rise of the Vernacular Motet
  • 3. Johannes de Grocheio, the Litterati, and Verbal Subtilitas in the Ars Antiqua Motet
  • 4. Ars Nova and Algorism
  • 5. Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages, and the Chanson
  • Afterword: Towards the Renaissance?
  • Cathedralism
  • Rise of the vernacular motet
  • Johannes de Grocheio, the litterati, and verbal subtilitas in the Ars Antiqua Motet
  • Ars Nova and algorism
  • Huizinga, the waning of the middle ages, and the chanson
  • Afterword, toward the renaissance?