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Volume 41 Number 1 March 2018

Soundings and Soundscapes

41.1 March 2018

Edited by Sarah Kay and François Noudelmann
Contents
Introduction: Soundings and Soundscapes
Soundings and Soundscapes
Sarah Kay and François Noudelmann
Circulating Air: Inspiration, Voice and Soul
in Poetry and Song Edited by Sarah Kay and François Noudelmann
Sarah Kay

Soundings and Soundscapes (ed. Kay and Noudelmann)

Sonograms of Desire, Medieval and Modern
Judith A. Peraino
Striking the Air: Early Modern Parisian Sound Worlds
Nicholas Hammond
The Sounds of Enlightenment Paris
Arlette Farge
Listening to the Landscape for an Ecosophic Aesthetic
Roberto Barbanti
Solemn Resonances: The Incomplete Monument
and the Posthumous Soundscape
James Helgeson
From Sound to Sound Space, Sound Environment,
Soundscape, Sound Milieu or Ambiance …
Makis Solomos
What is an Acousmatic Reading?
François Noudelmann
Notes on Contributors Edinburgh University Press

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A Journal of Modern Critical Theory
Volume 41, Number 1, March 2018

Soundings and Soundscapes

Edited by Sarah Kay and François Noudelmann

Contents
Introduction: Soundings and Soundscapes
SARAH KAY AND FRANÇOIS NOUDELMANN 1
Circulating Air: Inspiration, Voice and Soul in Poetry and Song
SARAH KAY 10
Sonograms of Desire, Medieval and Modern
JUDITH A. PERAINO 26
Striking the Air: Early Modern Parisian Sound Worlds
NICHOLAS HAMMOND 42
The Sounds of Enlightenment Paris
ARLETTE FARGE 52
Listening to the Landscape for an Ecosophic Aesthetic
ROBERTO BARBANTI 62
Solemn Resonances: The Incomplete Monument and the
Posthumous Soundscape
JAMES HELGESON 79
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From Sound to Sound Space, Sound Environment, Soundscape,

Sound Milieu or Ambiance . . .
MAKIS SOLOMOS 95
What is an Acousmatic Reading?
FRANÇOIS NOUDELMANN 110
Notes on Contributors 125