{"product_id":"the-sense-of-sound-musical-meaning-in-france-1260-1330-9780199732951","title":"The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260-1330","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Emma Dillon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - International\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the most memorable innovations of music and poetry in thirteenth-century France was a genre that seemed to privilege sound over sense. The polytextual motet is especially well-known to scholars of the Middle Ages for its tendency to conceal complex allegorical meaning in a texture that, in performance, made words less, rather than more, audible. It is with such musical sound that this book is concerned. What did it mean to create a musical effect so potentially independent from the meaning of words? Is it possible such supermusical effects themselves had significance? \u003cem\u003eThe Sense of Sound\u003c\/em\u003e offers a radical recontextualization of French song in the heyday of the motet c.1260-1330, and makes the case for listening to musical sound against a range of other potently meaningful sonorities, often premised on non-verbal meaning. In identifying new audible interlocutors to music, it opens our ears to a broad spectrum of sounds often left out of historical inquiry, from the hubbub of\u003cbr\u003ethe medieval city; to the eloquent babble of madmen; to the violent clamor of charivari; to the charismatic chatter of prayer. Drawing on a rich array of artistic evidence (music, manuscripts, poetry, and images) and contemporary cultural theory, it locates musical production in this period within a larger cultural environment concerned with representing sound and its emotional, ethical, and social effects. In so doing, \u003cem\u003eThe Sense of Sound\u003c\/em\u003e offers an experiment in how we might place central the most elusive aspect of music's history: sound's vibrating, living effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891154894999,"sku":"9780199732951","price":8774.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199732951.webp?v=1781182558","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sense-of-sound-musical-meaning-in-france-1260-1330-9780199732951","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}