- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 324 pages) : illustrations, music, facsimiles
- Summary
- "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."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Music in context
- Uniform Title
- Music in context.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-312) and index.
- Contents
- New light on the earliest medieval songbook / Sam Barrett -- The careful cantor and the Carmina Cantabrigiensia / Jeremy Llewellyn -- Across divides: Aquitaine's new song and London, British Library, Additional 36881 / Rachel May Golden -- Wine, women, and song? Reconsidering the Carmina Burana / Gundela Bobeth (translated by Henry Hope) -- An English monastic miscellany: the Reading manuscript of Sumer is icumen in / Helen Deeming -- Preserving and recycling: functional multiplicity and shifting priorities in the compilation and continued use of London, British Library, Egerton 274 / Helen Deeming -- Miniatures, Minnesä̈nger, music: the Codex Manesse / Henry Hope -- Writing, performance, and devotion in the thirteenth-century motet: the 'La Clayette' manuscript / Sean Curran -- A courtly compilation: the Douce Chansonnier / Elizabeth Eva Leach -- Machaut's first single-author compilation / Elizabeth Eva Leach -- Songs, scattered and gathered / Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach.
- ISBN
- 9781107477193
- 1107477190
- 9781316248027
- 131624802X
- OCLC
- 910964598
- Title
Manuscripts and medieval song : inscription, performance, context / edited by Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach.
- Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Music in context
Music in context.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-312) and index.
- Source of description
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (Cambridge Books Online, viewed August 12, 2016).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Deeming, Helen, editor.
Leach, Elizabeth Eva, editor.
- Other Form:
Print version: Manuscripts and medieval song 9781107062634 (DLC) 2014034732 (OCoLC)890107321