Music in the Age of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Wilkins, Nigel.
Music in the Age of Chaucer
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979.
- Series
- Chaucer Studies, no. 01.
- Description
- A general guide to fourteenth-century music in France, Italy, and Britain. The main composers, musical forms, and centers of musical activity are surveyed and illustrated in facsimiles, pictures, and music examples. Musical references in Chaucer's works show that, while not a practicing musician, he had an uncommon interest in and sympathy for music. Gives a detailed study of minstrelsy and a general introduction to instruments.
- See the companion volume, "Chaucer's Songs."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.