Song, silk and romance: the values of Medieval music
Details
| Title | Song, silk and romance: the values of Medieval music |
| Author | King's College London |
| Duration | 1:07:33 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=6IFUlAQupPY |
Description
The starting point for this lecture is an alignment of song and silk. The silk in question forms a luxurious embroidered bedspread in the chamber of an emperor and protagonist of a thirteenth-century French romance, Jean Renart’s Guillaume de Dole. The song is the one the emperor sings at the moment he realises he has unwittingly fallen in love. In this emotional epiphany, song and silk are connected: it is the sight of sunlight catching the gold thread woven in the silk bedspread that provokes the emperor’s lyric outpouring.
Thursday 24 October 2013
