Synopses & Reviews
This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript. It sets the manuscript against the wider culture of Parisian book-making, showing how in devising new systems of design and folio layout, its creators developed a new kind of materiality in music. It also illustrates how music is expressive in ways that are unperformable apart from its visual representation, and argues that the new attitudes to material music making embodied in the manuscript serve as a model for exploring other music manuscripts to emerge in late medieval France.
Review
"Dillon's book is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval French literature or its manuscripts. The study is informed by Dillon's training as a musicologist, but it will be completely accessible to literary scholars, paleographers, and codicologists." Speclum'
Synopsis
A detailed study of music-making and how it was embodied in the manuscript tradition. The role of music in 14th century France is explored through the manuscript Bibliotheque nationale de France, fr 146, the contents of which are inserted in the old French satire Roman de Fauvel . The many musical interpolations in fr 146 provide an insight into musical cultures in medieval Paris and Dillon also makes forays into Parisian book-making.
Synopsis
This book explores the role of music in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript.
About the Author
Emma Dillon is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. She specialises in French medieval music and is a contributor to Fauvel Studies (1998).
Table of Contents
Contexts --Music and the book: approaches to the interpretation of manuscripts --Chaillou's authorial presence --Interpolation: the conquest of the parchment --Scribe as