Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing PDF
Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing PDF The main function of western musical notation is incidental: it prescribes and records sound. But during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, notation began to take on an aesthetic life all its own. In the early fifteenth century, a musician might be asked to sing a line slower,… Read More »