Beauty and Ugliness as Aesthetics Aspects in Medieval Music: Order in Disorder
Antonio Celso RIBEIRO
Original title: Beleza e Feiura como aspectos estéticos na Música Medieval: a Ordem na Desordem
Published in Mirabilia Journal
Keywords: Beauty, Disorder, Medieval Music, Order, Treatises, Troubadours, Ugliness.
Through a brief examination of anonymous music treatise La Doctrina de Compondre Dictatz, this work intends to expose some aesthetic aspects of the medieval songbook, confronting its main genres and making some considerations about beauty and ugliness in the songs of troubadours.
From the sagesse des troubadours to the polite allegory of Ramon Llull
Anna Maria COMPAGNA
Original title: De la sagesse des troubadours al alegorismo cortés de Ramon Llull
Published in
Keywords: Laicism, Middle Ages, Ramon Lull, Troubadours.
If certain comparisons between works rarely go beyond superficial analogies, the concept of a figure allows us to frame in a new light the affinity of some of Llull’s works with troubadour poetry, where the lady as a metaphor for Wisdom and as a folkloric epiphany presages what which will be the courteous allegorism of Ramon Llull. The importance that Llull gives to the metaphor finds part of his matrix in the love story of the troubadours.
