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The polyphonies of function: Guillaume de Machaut and the performance of text and music

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Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In the Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.4324/9781003129837-2
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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48485

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Music Faculty
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-2879-4044
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
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Polyphony and the Modern Journal website
Publication date:
2021-03-07
Acceptance date:
2020-09-21
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English
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1133238
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pubs:1133238
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2020-09-22

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