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 -- Minnesàˆ̀ˆnger, music, miniatures : 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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