The owl and the nightingale : musical life and ideas in France 1100-1300 / Christopher Page.
| Author/creator |
Page, Christopher, 1952- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990. |
| Description | xi, 279 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | Minstrels and the clergy -- Minstrels and the knightly class -- Minstrels in Paris c. 1300: rules and repertoire -- Jeunesse and the courtly song repertory -- The carole, the pulpit and the schools -- The masters of organum: the study and performance of Parisian polyphony during the early thirteenth century -- Plainchant and the beyond -- Inventing the state -- Appendix: a brief conspectus of some major types of sources and delected documents. |
| Abstract | Music and literature enjoyed a renaissance in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. That period witnessed, among other things, the rise of the troubadours and trouveres, the elaboration of Notre Dame polyphony, and the emergence of Romance. Everywhere a new, secular spirit was coming into conflict with the older, more severe view of man and his music. It was the age of the debate between the owl and the nightingale, so called after a Middle English poem that pits the owl (the traditional asceticism of Christianity) against the nightingale (the new, more joyous and humane, social and intellectual trends of the times). The author, one of the most original music historians, examines this continuing struggle as it was fought by monks, preachers, commentators, and many others in the great and clamorous aviary of the Christian Church. Drawing upon an astonishing range of literary evidence, much of it from rare manuscripts, he enables us to see the musical life as well as the literature of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in a new light. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-269) and index. |
| LCCN | 89040538 |
| ISBN | 0520069447 |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML270.2.P34X 1990 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |