Chaucer and Deschamps' 'Natural Music'
- Author / Editor
- Wimsatt, James I.
Chaucer and Deschamps' 'Natural Music'
- Published
- Rebecca A. Baltzer, Thomas Cable, and James I. Wimsatt, eds. The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991, pp. 132-50.
- Description
- Applies Deschamps' concept of natural music (i.e., words in verse, from L'Art de dictier) to Machaut's ballade "Tout ensement," to "The Fair Maid of Ribblesdale," and to Chaucer's Ros, demonstrating how the rhythms of Middle French and Middle English verse differ and how Chaucer emulates the French.
- Alternative Title
- Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.