The mimetic basis of pure music in Machaut's Refrain Songs: Part 2, musical abstraction
The dualistic relationship of words and music in Machaut’s refrain songs (proposed in Part 1 of this article) enables abstraction of the music from the poetic model that inspired it. This situation is at its most extreme in certain rondeaux, representatives of a genre for which a special function in...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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