You might also like

More about Discarding Images

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 279 loyalty points

Book synopsis

For many centuries, the Western imagination has picture the medieval period as a kind of odyssey: a journey that took Mankind to a strange country and ended in the Renaissance with his homecoming and the restoration of his inheritance. In this stimulating and provocative book, Christopher Page explores the kinds of generalization that we habitually make about 'the Middle Ages' and which, whether we know it or not, sustain the false image of medieval odyssey. In chapters that proceed chronologically from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth, he examines what we suppose to be the serenity of medieval reflection on such matters as the 'numerical' explanation of musical beauty, and he questions the modern tendency to regard Ars antiqua motets as music for 'an intellectual elite'. Turning to the Ars nova and beyond, he discusses the relation between fourteenth-century innovations and contemporary science. A final chapter explores the powerful influence on Joan Juizinga's classic The Waning of the Middle Ages, upon musicology. Page's lively prose if full of ideas, is based upon first-hand learning, and is enriched by an uncommonly deep experience of medieval music.

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Discarding Images
• Subtitle: Reflections on Music and Culture in Medieval France
• Author: Christopher Page
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9780198166795
• ISBN: 0198166796
• ID: 04522536
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 380 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 231 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. August 1997

Trending among others

---

---

---