Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

A Note to the Reader

About the Companion Website

Prologue

Chapter One Listening to the Past, Listening in the Past

Chapter Two Sound and the City

Chapter Three Charivari

Chapter Four Madness and the Eloquence of Nonsense

Chapter Five Sound in Prayer

Chapter Six Sound in Prayer Books

Chapter Seven Praying with Sound: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux and
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Chapter Eight Devotional Listening and the Montpellier Codex

Epilogue

Bibliography

About the Author

Emma Dillon is Chair of Musicology, King's College, London, and specialist of medieval music. She is author of Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel (2002).

Reviews

"A luxurious and valuable book...I recommend Dillon's Sense of Sound to a very wide audience, starting with Medievalists of every ilk, but also to musicologists of all periods as well as to humanists, musical amateurs and lovers of Paris and the Ile-de-France." --Early Music America