| Description |
xx, 375 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 49
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 49.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Text and Performance. Song and written record in the early thirteenth century ; The sources of song: chansonniers, narratives, dance-song ; The performance of song in Jean Renart's Rose -- The Boundaries of Genre. The refrain ; Refrains in context: a case study ; Contrafacta: from secular to sacred in Gautier de Coinci and later thirteenth-century writing -- The Location of Culture. 'Courtly' and 'popular' in the thirteenth century ; Urban culture: Arras and the puys ; The cultural contexts of Adam de la Halle: Le jeu de Robin et de Marion -- Modes of inscription. Songs in writing: the evidence of the manuscripts ; Chant/fable: Aucassin et Nicolette ; Writing music, writing poetry: Le Roman de Fauvel in Paris BN fr. 146 -- Lyric and narrative. The two Roses: Machaut and the thirteenth century ; Rewriting song: chanson, motet, salut, and dit ; Citation and authorship from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century -- Envoy: The new art. The Formes fixes: from Adam de la Halle to Guillaume de Machaut. |
| Subject |
Music and literature.
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Troubadour songs -- History and criticism.
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Trouvère songs -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Mensural notation.
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| ISBN |
0521622190 |
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