The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry  -  Thomas Cable

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In the beginning, poetry and music formed one art: Homer was sung, Beowulf was sung, and the Provençal lyric was sung. Even today, music and poetry remain united in popular song, in opera and oratorio, and in church liturgy and other kinds of sacred music.
In these essays, originating from a symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin, six noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship between poetry and music...
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1991 Uitgever: University Of Texas Press 167 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0292785194 ISBN-13: 9780292785199