Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. 1 Tractatus Esthetico-Semioticus: Model of the Systems of Human Communication 1
5. 2 The Ecstatic and the Didactic: A Pattern in American Music 41
6. 3 Music and the Time Screen 63
7. 4 Instruments and Voices in the Fifteenth-Century Chanson 89
8. 5 Nottebohm Revisited 139
9. 6 The Chanson in the Humanist Era 193
10. 7 Musicology, History, and Anthropology: Current Thoughts 231
11. 8 The Prospects for Research in Medieval Music in the 1970's 247
12. 9 The Library of the Mind: Observations on the Relationship between Musical Scholarship and Bibliography 277
13. Notes on the Contributors 297
14. Index 301