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.