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Title Manuscripts and medieval song : inscription, performance, context / edited by Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 324 pages) : illustrations, music, facsimiles.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series Music in context
Music in context.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-312) and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Music -- Europe -- 500-1400 -- Manuscripts.
Music.
Europe.
Chronological Term 500-1400
Subject Manuscripts.
Music -- Europe -- 15th century -- Manuscripts.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Paleography, Musical.
Paleography, Musical.
Musical notation -- History -- To 1500.
Musical notation.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Manuscripts.
History.
Added Author Deeming, Helen, editor.
Leach, Elizabeth Eva, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Manuscripts and medieval song 9781107062634 (DLC) 2014034732 (OCoLC)890107321
ISBN 9781107477193 (electronic book)
1107477190 (electronic book)
9781316248027 (electronic book)
131624802X (electronic book)
9781316249925
1316249921
9781107062634 (hardback)
1107062632 (hardback)