Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Inscription, Performance, Context
Published on 28. May 2015
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-1-107-06263-4 (ISBN)
Description
The manuscript sources of medieval song rarely fit the description of 'songbook' easily. Instead, they are very often mixed compilations that place songs alongside other diverse contents, and the songs themselves may be inscribed as texts alone or as verbal and musical notation. This book looks afresh at these manuscripts through ten case studies, representing key sources in Latin, French, German, and English from across Europe during the Middle Ages. Each chapter is authored by a leading expert and treats a case study in detail, including a listing of the manuscript's overall contents, a summary of its treatment in scholarship, and up-to-date bibliographical references. Drawing on recent scholarly methodologies, the contributors uncover what these books and the songs within them meant to their medieval audience and reveal a wealth of new information about the original contexts of songs both in performance and as committed to parchment.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 Printed music items; 27 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, unspecified; 5 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-06263-4 (9781107062634)
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Persons
Helen Deeming is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has taught medieval music at Cambridge, King's College London, Southampton and Royal Holloway, University of London and won several teaching prizes. She is the editor of Songs in British Sources, c.1150-1300, Musica Britannica, Volume 95 (2013) - a scholarly edition that makes many songs available in print for the first time. Elizabeth Eva Leach is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Guillaume de Machaut: Poet, Secretary, Musician (2011), Sung Birds: Music, Nature and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (2007), Citation in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture (co-edited with Suzannah Clark, 2005) and Machaut's Music: New Interpretations (editor, 2003). In 2013 she was awarded the Dent medal of the Royal Musical Association; she was also winner of the 2012 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize of the Renaissance Society of America, and the 2007 Outstanding Publication Award of the Society for Music Theory.
Content
Introduction Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach; 1. New light on the earliest medieval songbook Sam Barrett; 2. The careful cantor and the Carmina Cantabrigiensia Jeremy Llewellyn; 3. Across divides: Aquitaine's new song and London, British Library, Additional 36881 Rachel May Golden; 4. Wine, women, and song? Reconsidering the Carmina Burana Gundela Bobeth, translated by Henry Hope; 5. An English monastic miscellany: the Reading manuscript of Sumer is icumen in Helen Deeming; 6. Preserving and recycling: functional multiplicity and shifting priorities in the compilation and continued use of London, British Library, Egerton 274 Helen Deeming; 7. Minnesaenger, music, miniatures: the Codex Manesse Henry Hope; 8. Writing, performance and devotion in the thirteenth-century motet: the 'La Clayette' manuscript Sean Curran; 9. A courtly compilation: the Douce Chansonnier Elizabeth Eva Leach; 10. Machaut's first single-author compilation Elizabeth Eva Leach; 11. Songs, scattered and gathered Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach.