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Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song

by Lauren Jennings
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781138379961
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 312
  • Original Price: GBP 55.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 522 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Instruction & Study / Voice

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand out for their tendency to blur the distinction between speaking and singing, between poetry and song, a certain degree of semantic slippage extends into the realm of Italian literature through the use of genre names like canzone, sonetto, and ballata. Yet, paradoxically, scholars have traditionally identified a 'divorce' between music and poetry as the defining feature of early Italian lyric. Senza Vestimenta reintegrates poetic and musical traditions in late medieval Italy through a fresh evaluation of more than fifty literary sources transmitting Trecento song texts. These manuscripts have been long noted by musicologists, but until now they have been used to bolster rather than to debunk the notion that so-called 'poesia per musica' was relegated to the margins of poetic production. Jennings revises this view by exploring how scribes and readers interacted with song as a fundamentally interdisciplinary art form within a broad range of literary settings. Her study sheds light on the broader cultural world surrounding the reception of the Italian ars nova repertoire by uncovering new, diverse readers ranging from wealthy merchants to modest artisans.

Lauren McGuire Jennings specializes in the study of song, poetry, and manuscript culture in late medieval Italy as well as concert life in early nineteenth-century America. Currently a Lecturer in Music History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, she was, from 2012 to 2014, a Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities at the University of Southern California.

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