Musica naturalis : speculative music theory and poetics, from Saint Augustine to the late middle ages in France
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Musica naturalis : speculative music theory and poetics, from Saint Augustine to the late middle ages in France
（Rethinking theory）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
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Translate of: Musica naturalis, published by F. Steiner, Stuttgart, 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-542) and index
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Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet Eustache Deschamps, whose 1392 treatise on verse writing, L'Art de Dictier, famously casts verse as "natural music" in explicit distinction to song, which Deschamps defines as "artificial." Philipp Jeserich links the significance of the speculative branch of medieval musicology to literary theory and literary production, opening up a field of study that has been largely neglected. Beginning with Augustine and Boethius, he traces the discourse of speculative music theory to the late fifteenth century, giving attention to medieval Latin and vernacular sources. Ultimately, Jeserich calls for the conservatism of Deschamps' poetics and develops a new perspective on the poetics and poetry of the Grands rhetoriqueurs. Given Jeserich's reliance on the intellectual inheritance of late medieval French poetics and poetry, this book will appeal to English-speaking specialists of Old and Middle French, as well as scholars of the French Renaissance.
It will also interest English language medievalists of several other disciplines: intellectual historians and specialists of English, as well as scholars of Italian and Iberian literature.
Table of Contents
Preface
Part One
1. Trends in Recent Research on the Late Middle Ages
2. Eustache Deschamps, L'Art de Dictier, 1392: Presentation and State of Research
3. Desiderata in Research
Part Two
4. From Pagan Late Antiquity to the Christian Middle Ages
5. Augustine, De musica
6. Boethius, De institutione arithmetica and De institutionemusica
7. Speculative Music Theory in the Boethian Tradition,500-1500
8. Speculative Music Theory and Poetics
9. Instead of a Summary: Speculative Music Theory and Poeticsin the French Vernacular. Evrart de Conty's Echecs amoureux and Glose
Part Three
10. Eustache Deschamps's L'Art de Dictier Revisited: New Connections
11. The Speculative Conception of Music and the "Formalist" Poetics of the Grands Rhetoriqueurs
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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