Previously published essays. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : poets, singers, scribes and historians / [Elizabeth Aubrey] -- Bibliography (p. xxiv-xxxvi). pt. 1. History and society. Music and chivalric function in France 1150-1300 / Christopher Page -- Joglars and the professional status of the early troubadours / Ruth E. Harvey -- Turtles, helmets, parasites and goliards / Bryan Gillingham -- Introduction, in Cyrilla Barr, The monophonic lauda and the lay religious confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the late middle ages. pt. 2. Women. Diminishing the trobairitz, excluding the women trouvères / Joan Tasker Grimbert -- Women's performance of the lyric before 1500 / Susan Boynton. pt. 3. Poetry and music. Poetics and music / Elizabeth Aubrey -- Johannes de Grocheio on secular music : a corrected text and a new translation / Christopher Page -- Genre as a determinant of melody in the songs of the troubadours and the trouveres / Elizabeth Aubrey -- La grande chanson courtoise : the chansons of Adam de la Halle / John Stevens -- Interrelationships between poetic and musical form in trouvère song / Theodore Karp -- Andalusian music and the Cantigas de Santa Maria / Manuel Pedro Ferreira -- Rondeau and virelai : the music of Andalus and the Cantigas de Santa Maria / Manuel Pedro Ferreira. pt. 4. Transmission. The trouvère ms tradition / Theodore Karp -- The trouvère chansons as creations of a notationless musical culture / Hendrik van der Werf -- Probleme um die Melodien des Minnesangs / Ursula Aarburg. pt. 5. Performance. Songs and instruments : the 12th century in the South / Christopher Page -- Voices and instruments in medieval French secular music : on the use of literary texts as evidence for performance practice / Sylvia Huot -- References to music in old Occitan literature / Elizabeth Aubrey -- Mensura and the rhythm of medieval monodic song / J.E. Maddrell -- Concerning the measurability of medieval music / Hendrik Van der Werf -- Grocheo and 'The measurability of medieval music' : a reply to Hendik Vanderwerf / J.E. Maddrell -- Rhythm, meter, and melodic organization in medieval songs / Hans Tischler -- The 'not-so-precisely measured' music of the middle ages / Hendrik Van der Werf.
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