Research Catalog

Title

Poets and singers : on Latin and vernacular monophonic song / edited by Elizabeth Aubrey.

Publication

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Aubrey, Elizabeth, 1951-

Description

xxxvi, 523 p. : ill., music; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Music in medieval Europe

Uniform Title

Music in medieval Europe.

Subjects

• Trouvère songs > History and criticism
• Bards and bardism
• Trouvères
• Monophonic chansons > 500-1400 > History and criticism

Note

• Previously published essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : poets, singers, scribes and historians / [Elizabeth Aubrey] -- Bibliography (p. xxiv-xxxvi).
• pt. 1. History and society. Music and chivalric function in France 1150-1300 / Christopher Page -- Joglars and the professional status of the early troubadours / Ruth E. Harvey -- Turtles, helmets, parasites and goliards / Bryan Gillingham -- Introduction, in Cyrilla Barr, The monophonic lauda and the lay religious confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the late middle ages.
• pt. 2. Women. Diminishing the trobairitz, excluding the women trouvères / Joan Tasker Grimbert -- Women's performance of the lyric before 1500 / Susan Boynton.
• pt. 3. Poetry and music. Poetics and music / Elizabeth Aubrey -- Johannes de Grocheio on secular music : a corrected text and a new translation / Christopher Page -- Genre as a determinant of melody in the songs of the troubadours and the trouveres / Elizabeth Aubrey -- La grande chanson courtoise : the chansons of Adam de la Halle / John Stevens -- Interrelationships between poetic and musical form in trouvère song / Theodore Karp -- Andalusian music and the Cantigas de Santa Maria / Manuel Pedro Ferreira -- Rondeau and virelai : the music of Andalus and the Cantigas de Santa Maria / Manuel Pedro Ferreira.
• pt. 4. Transmission. The trouvère ms tradition / Theodore Karp -- The trouvère chansons as creations of a notationless musical culture / Hendrik van der Werf -- Probleme um die Melodien des Minnesangs / Ursula Aarburg.
• pt. 5. Performance. Songs and instruments : the 12th century in the South / Christopher Page -- Voices and instruments in medieval French secular music : on the use of literary texts as evidence for performance practice / Sylvia Huot -- References to music in old Occitan literature / Elizabeth Aubrey -- Mensura and the rhythm of medieval monodic song / J.E. Maddrell -- Concerning the measurability of medieval music / Hendrik Van der Werf -- Grocheo and 'The measurability of medieval music' : a reply to Hendik Vanderwerf / J.E. Maddrell -- Rhythm, meter, and melodic organization in medieval songs / Hans Tischler -- The 'not-so-precisely measured' music of the middle ages / Hendrik Van der Werf.

Call Number

JMF 09-398

ISBN

• 9780754627074 (hbk.)
• 0754627071 (hbk.)

LCCN

2007943183

OCLC

234380353

Title

Poets and singers : on Latin and vernacular monophonic song / edited by Elizabeth Aubrey.

Imprint

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

Series

Music in medieval Europe

Music in medieval Europe.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Aubrey, Elizabeth, 1951- Editor. Contributor

Research Call Number

JMF 09-398