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Title: | Review of 'Sung Birds: Music, Poetry, and Nature in the Later Middle Ages' by Elizabeth Eva Leach: Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 2007. [xiii, 345 p. ISBN-10 0801444908; ISBN-13 9780801444913. $55.] Illustrations, music examples, bibliographical references, index, appendices. | Contributor(s): | Stoessel, Jason (author) | Publication Date: | 2008 | DOI: | 10.1353/not.2008.0006 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5485 | Abstract: | Leach's text demonstrates a cross-disciplinary approach that develops contextual readings of musical culture and its artifacts through the examination of not only music and music theory but also close readings of contemporary literature, both theoretical and literary, that she injects with approaches from gender and sexuality studies. While the overriding principle of 'harmonia' forms a part of both major Western philosophies (namely Platonism and Aristoteleanism), there exists the capacity to discuss music as a rational process, although the means by which that rational basis is derived or determined shifts from immanent number to rational deduction as exemplified by the concern of many fourteenth-century theorists discussing alternative divisions of the tone. | Publication Type: | Review | Source of Publication: | Notes, 64(3), p. 490-493 | Publisher: | Music Library Association | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1534-150X 0027-4380 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950101 Music | HERDC Category Description: | D3 Review of Single Work | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20572626 |
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Appears in Collections: | Review School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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