by JOHN STEVENS
Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge
Music formed an important part of the standard medieval university education, but not for the kind of reasons we should be most likely to tive. It was valued because it trained the mind in abstract speculation. Behind the sonorous glory of medieval composition lies the belief ' sounds pass quickly away but numbers remain.'
This talk is among a number devised to accompany the current series of music Programmes from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Nicholas of Cusa, by Gordon Leff : October 26