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Discarding Images: Reflections on Music and Culture in Medieval France


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For many centuries, the Western imagination has pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey. This text explores this false image, examining medieval reflection on the "numerical" explanation of musical beauty, and the relation between 14th-century innovations and contemporary science.


246 pages, frontispiece, plates, halftones, map, music examples

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 7, 1997
ISBN13 9780198166795
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 246
Dimensions 231 × 155 × 17 mm   ·   380 g

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