The Sense of Sound

• Visit the companion website
• Presents a new model for ascribing meaning to musical sound in medieval France, and especially for understanding the motet
• Widens the scope of sonic evidence usually considered by historians.
• Illustrates a large body of new source evidence relating to imagery of sound in prayer books.
• Companion website offers an innovative means of making the visual evidence accessible to the reader.

Readership: Musicologists, medievalists and social scientists interested in early music, literature, and "sound studies," as well as general readers interested in medieval song and culture.

Emma Dillon, Associate Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania

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