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The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry

Edited by James I. Wimsatt (NHC Fellow, 1987–88), Rebecca A. Baltzer, and Thomas Cable

Poetry; Middle Ages; Performing Arts; Medieval Literature; France

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991

From the publisher’s description:

In these essays, five noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship between poetry and music in the Middle Ages.

Subjects
Music / Literature / Fiction and Poetry / Poetry / Middle Ages / Performing Arts / Medieval Literature / France /

Wimsatt, James I. (NHC Fellow, 1987–88), ed. The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry. Edited by James I. Wimsatt, Rebecca A. Baltzer, and Thomas Cable. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.