Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: New Cultural History of Music
Número de páginas: 320 págs. 23.5 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 04-04-2024
EAN: 9780197670590
ISBN: 978-0-19-767059-0
Precio (sin IVA): 94,94 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 98,74 €
This book offers a new perspective to the song collection, probing how the Cantigas use their music and text, together with rhetorical devices, to communicate with their desired audience. Author Henry T. Drummond builds upon previous methodologies, adopting a novel and holistic assessment of the songs' melodies, poetic features, and narrative logic to assess a wide selection of songs. He presents a nuanced understanding of a song form that effectively conveys its narratives to its listeners via a diverse combination of tools, embracing medieval rhetoric, rhyme-based play, and song's inherent ludic potential.