Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel

Download or read book Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel written by Emma Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript. It sets the manuscript against the wider culture of Parisian book-making, showing how in devising new systems of design and folio layout, its creators developed a new kind of materiality in music. It also illustrates how music is expressive in ways that are unperformable apart from its visual representation, and argues that the new attitudes to material music making embodied in the manuscript serve as a model for exploring other music manuscripts to emerge in late medieval France.