A Reference to Music in Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Colvert, James B.

Title
A Reference to Music in Chaucer's "House of Fame."

Published
Modern Language Notes 69 (1954): 239-41.

Description
Clarifies--etymologically and musicologically--that "cordes" mentioned in HF 696 refers to instrumental strings, not to musical chords. the latter being anachronistic in Chaucer's era.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
House of Fame