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Author:   Vincenzo Borghetti ,  Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032036090

ISBN 10:   1032036095
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction PART 1: The Materiality of Song 1. The Codex Buranus, or The First Chansonnier 2. Parchment Poesis in Guillaume de Machaut’s “Prologue” 3. Imaginary Chansonniers: Song, Desire, and Materiality in Vitsentzos Kornaros’ Erotokritos PART 2: Songs, Books, Society 4. Verbal and Visual Paratexts: Strategies in Shaping Music Books in the Trecento Florentine Manuscript Tradition 5. Formes of Intimacy: Miniaturisation and Sociability in the Fifteenth-Century Chansonnier 6. The Materiality of Musical Knowledge in Sixteenth-Century Textbooks: Appropriation, Personalisation, and Self-Representation 7. The Modern Music Edition as Material Histor(iograph)y PART 3: Picturing Sound, Hearing Images 8. Secular Sounds in Late Medieval Lives of Saints and Their Pictorial Representations 9. The Sounds of Poliphilo and Polia 10. The Domestic Life of the Syrinx PART 4: Musical Objects 11. Music, Heraldry and Material Culture in the Late Middle Ages: Ars Nova Songs for Louis I of Anjou and Bertrand du Guesclin 12. Negotiating Identity and Status: Musicalia in the Relational Strategies of Duke Guidubaldo II della Rovere 13. Sacred Music Books Desacralised: Material Perspectives on Musical Fragments

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Vincenzo Borghetti is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Verona, Italy. His research interests include Renaissance polyphony and opera. His essays and articles have appeared in Early Music History, Acta musicologica, Journal of the Alamire Foundation, and Imago Musicae, among other journals, and in several edited collections. He is the co-editor with Tim Shephard of The Museum of Renaissance Music: A History in 100 Exhibits (2023). Alexandros Maria Hatzikiriakos is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research focuses on auditory history and cultural history of music in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean. His publications include essays on sound and music in early modern Crete, medieval vernacular song, and the monograph Musiche da una corte effimera: Lo Chansonnier du Roi (Paris, BnF, fr. 844) e la Napoli dei primi angioini (2020).

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