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Manuscripts and Medieval Song

Inscription, Performance, Context

Elizabeth Eva Leach editor Helen Deeming editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th May '15

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This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.

This unique publication offers fresh perspectives on key manuscript sources of medieval song. In ten chapters, leading experts each treat a single manuscript in detail, offering new findings, essential summaries of each manuscript's contents and historiography, and detailed, accessible analyses of the songs' music and texts.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.

ISBN: 9781107062634

Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm

Weight: 750g

348 pages