The Media of Secular Music in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (1100–1650)

This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing them as media communication tools, whose particular features shape the meaning of their contents. Ranging from the eleventh to seventeenth centuries, and across countries and genres, the chapters offer innovative insights into the historical relationship between music and its presentation in a wide variety of media. The lens of media enables contributors to expand music history beyond notated music manuscripts and instruments to include images, furniture, luxury items, and other objects, and to address uniquely visual and material aspects of music sources in books and literature. Drawing together an international group of contributors, the volume pays close attention to the medial and material dimensions of musical sources, considering them as multifaceted objects that not only contain but also determine the nature of the music they transmit. Transforming our understanding of musical media, this volume will be of interest to scholars of musicology, art history, and medieval and early modern cultures. This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing them as media communication tools, whose particular features shape the meaning of their contents. The chapters offer innovative insights into Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Figures 8 List of Music Examples 12 List of Tables 13 Notes on Contributors 14 Introduction 18 Part I The Materiality of Song 34 Chapter 1 The Codex Buranus, or The First Chansonnier 36 Chapter 2 Parchment Poesis in Guillaume de Machaut’s “Prologue”1 54 Chapter 3 Imaginary Chansonniers: Song, Desire, and Materiality in Vitsentzos Kornaros’s Erotokritos 78 Part II Songs, Books, Society 98 Chapter 4 Verbal and Visual Paratexts: Strategies in Shaping Music Books in the Trecento Florentine Manuscript Tradition 100 Chapter 5 Formes of Intimacy: Miniaturisation and Sociability in the Fifteenth-Century Chansonnier 133 Chapter 6 The Materiality of Musical Knowledge in Sixteenth-Century Textbooks: Appropriation, Personalisation, and Self-Representation 156 Chapter 7 The Modern Music Edition as Material Histor(iograph)y 174 Part III Picturing Sound, Hearing Images 192 Chapter 8 Secular Sounds in Late Medieval Lives of Saints and Their Pictorial Representations 194 Chapter 9 The Sounds of Poliphilo and Polia 211 Chapter 10 The Domestic Life of the Syrinx 234 Part IV Musical Objects 256 Chapter 11 Music, Heraldry, and Material Culture in the Late Middle Ages: Ars Nova Songs for Louis I of Anjou and Bertrand du Guesclin 258 Chapter 12 Negotiating Identity and Status: Musicalia in the Relational Strategies of Duke Guidubaldo II della Rovere 283 Chapter 13 Sacred Music Books Desacralised: Material Perspectives on Musical Fragments 307 Index 326 Medieval,music;,Early,modern,music;,Manuscript,culture;,Book,history;,Material,culture Medieval music,Early modern music,Manuscript culture,Book history,Material culture