Dillon, Emma - The Sense of Sound

The Sense of Sound is a radical recontextualization of French song, 1260-1330. Situating musical sound against sonorities of the city, madness, charivari, and prayer, it argues that the effect of verbal confusion popular in music abounds with audible associations, and that there was meaning in what is often heard as nonsensical.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
A Note to the Reader
About the Companion Website
Prologue
Chapter One Listening to the Past, Listening in the Past
Chapter Two Sound and the City
Chapter Three Charivari
Chapter Four Madness and the Eloquence of Nonsense
Chapter Five Sound in Prayer
Chapter Six Sound in Prayer Books
Chapter Seven Praying with Sound: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux and
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Chapter Eight Devotional Listening and the Montpellier Codex
Epilogue
Bibliography

Series	The New Cultural History of Music