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Hardcover Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France Book

ISBN: 1421411245

ISBN13: 9781421411248

Musica Naturalis: Speculative Music Theory and Poetics, from Saint Augustine to the Late Middle Ages in France

(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)

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A critical study of the relationship between poetics and music theory in medieval culture and aesthetics.

Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L'Art de Dictier, famously casts verse as "natural music" in explicit distinction...

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