Role of music

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Jordan Stokes - article in question

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‘In Search of Machaut’s Poietics’

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Stokes’s main point

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Symbiosis between song and narrative

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Stokes quotation

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‘The song adds something to the narrative through its presence, and the narrative gives the song a performance context and additional shades of meaning’

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Wimsatt and Kibler quotation

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‘The function of the musical numbers in the poem is twofold: both to instruct and entertain’

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Wimsatt and Kibler on Machaut’s display of skill

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‘The poet-composer includes all the types of lyric vernacular song found in fourteenth-century France’

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Leach on the role of music

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The Remede ‘contains interpolated musical lyrics that serve to generate and resolve the surrounding narrative’

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Ability of multiple song forms

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they are able to ‘provide a sonic vehicle for many things and take on meanings from text, context, and reception’