Musica Ficta by Anne Kennedy

This engaging and thought provoking fable travels time and space to chart the discovery and history of musica ficta - the story of inventiveness, happy accidents and the power of the imagination. With ingenuity, great humour, and marvellous wordplay that mimics the expressiveness of music, Musica Ficta deftly interweaves and meshes strands of narrative - the Twelth-Century mystic St Hildegard, a prince who wants to be a jongleur, the struggles of Beethoven and Mozart, the decomposing world of James Joyce and the problem of multiple points of view, the rituals of psychoanalysis - to create a captivating allegory of Western history, civilisation, spirituality and creativity. This 1993 University of Queensland Press Paperback is in good condition. Tanning & foxing.

ISBN: 9781869400866 SKU: 1543948 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1543948
Location: NZ Fiction