Musicologists ... have nearly all ignored the Bestiaire d'amour [by Richard de Fournival], on account of its ostensibly having little or no directly musical content: it is a French prose work, with no musical notation. Here, we will argue from our combined perspectives in musicology and French literary studies that not only does it explicitly cite a musical work, but that it also creates meaning using a variety of sonic, musical, and verbal intertexts, real and imagined. Moreover, it uses these intertextual (and, for non-literate vox, intersonic) resonances to reflect on how it is that texts make meaning. - [Authors]

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