SENSE OF SOUND NCHM C

The Sense of Sound is a radical recontextualization of French song, 1260-1330. Situating musical sound against sonorities of the city, madness, charivari, and prayer, it argues that the effect of verbal confusion popular in music abounds with audible associations, and that there was meaning in what is often heard as nonsensical.

Emma Dillon is Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, and specialist of medieval music. She is author of Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel (2002).

- Acknowledgements - Abbreviations - A Note to the Reader - About the Companion Website - Prologue - Chapter One Listening to the Past, Listening in the Past - Chapter Two Sound and the City - Chapter Three Charivari - Chapter Four Madness and the Eloquence of Nonsense - Chapter Five Sound in Prayer - Chapter Six Sound in Prayer Books - Chapter Seven Praying with Sound: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux and - Walters 102 - Chapter Eight Devotional Listening and the Montpellier Codex - Epilogue - Bibliography