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Il rigo musicale in fondo alla 'Bataille d'Annezin' e i dispositivi di chiusura della lassa epica
2015
The discovery, made by E. Langlois in 1910, of a notated musical staff at the end of a little-known parodic laisse probably written within the 13th century by an otherwise unknown Thomas de Bailleul (MS London, BL, Royal 20 A XVII) immediately raised the interest of medieval musicologists, who have debated its function and interpretation until recent times, whereas romance philologists haven’t payed due attention to this intriguing and unique musical evidence, undoubtedly related to an Old French chanson de geste. In this paper I shall defend G. Schläger’s forgotten hypothesis that the musical staff could well represent a vocal-ized ‘short line’ (petit vers), arguing that this question shou…
Stéréophonie et littérature : résonnance et reverbération dans les chansons de gestes et romans des XIIe et XIIIe siècles
2016
The chansons de geste and chivalric romances from the 12th and 13th centuries are a faithful testimony of the reality of their time, and sensory perceptions are among these testimonies. The written word provides not only descriptive and objective information, but also the impressions perceived and conveyed by the author, which are the sensations the reader has to get acquainted with in order to make the story their own. Mentions to sound effects and the sound features of a particular space are remarkable, and a compilation of these references from various texts allows us to study the sounds, resonances, and spaces through which the sound event gains prominence in the narrative. These includ…
Modalità e tipologie dell’epica normanna tra Francia, Inghilterra e Italia meridionale
2017
Attraverso la presentazione e l’analisi – ovviamente parziali e circoscritte ad alcuni passi-campione, opportunamente scelti – di quattro testi variamente afferenti alla produzione epica di età normanna, in volgare e in latino, in Francia (la chanson di «Gormont et Isembart»), Inghilterra (il «Carmen de Hastingae proelio» attribuito a Guy d’Amiens) e Italia meridionale (i «Gesta Roberti Wiscardi» di Guglielmo il Pugliese e il «Liber ad honorem Augusti» di Pietro da Eboli), tra la seconda metà dell’XI secolo e l’ultimo scorcio del XII, si tenta di enucleare alcune delle modalità e delle tipologie distintive di tale produzione epica. Gli elementi costitutivi di tale produzione, a grandi linee…