A Medieval Songbook

Author : Elizabeth Eva Leach,Joseph W. Mason,Matthew P. Thomson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783276523

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A Medieval Songbook by Elizabeth Eva Leach,Joseph W. Mason,Matthew P. Thomson Pdf

Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation. The medieval songbook known variously as trouvère manuscript C or the "Bern Chansonnier" (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 389) is one of the most important witnesses to musical life in thirteenth-century France. Almost certainly copied in Metz, it provides the texts to over five hundred Old French songs, and is a unique insight into cultures of song-making and copying on the linguistic and political borders between French and German-speaking lands in the Middle Ages. Notably, the names of trouvères, including several female poet-musicians, are found in its margins, names which would be unknown today without this evidence. However, the manuscript has received relatively little scholarly attention, partly because the songs' musical staves remained empty for reasons now unknown, and partly because of where it was copied. This collection of essays is the first to consider C on its own terms and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including philology, art history, literary studies, and musicology. The contributors explore the process of creating the complex object that is a music manuscript, examining the work of the scribes and artists who worked on C, and questioning how scribes acquired and organised exemplars for copying. The peculiarly Messine flavour of the repertoire and authors is also discussed, with contributors showing that C frames the tradition of Old French song from a unique perspective. As a whole, the volume demonstrates how in this eastern hub of music and poetry, poet-composers, readers, and scribes interacted with the courtly song tradition in fascinating and unusual ways.

Author : Noah Greenberg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486413748

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An English Medieval and Renaissance Song Book by Noah Greenberg Pdf

"An elegant anthology. The specialist will not miss the quiet sophistication with which the music has been selected and prepared. Some of it is printed here for the first time, and much of it has been edited anew." "Notes" This treasury of 47 vocal works edited by Noah Greenberg, founder and former director of the New York Pro Musica Antiqua will delight all lovers of medieval and Renaissance music. Containing a wealth of both religious and secular music from the 12th to the 17th centuries, the collection covers a broad range of moods, from the hearty "Blow Thy Horne Thou Jolly Hunter" by William Cornysh to the reflective and elegiac "Cease Mine Eyes" by Thomas Morley. Of the religious works, nine were written for church services, including "Sanctus" by Henry IV and "Angus Dei" from a beautiful four-part mass by Thomas Tallis. Other religious songs in the collection come from England's rich tradition of popular religious lyric poetry, and include William Byrd's "Susanna Farye," the anonymously written "Deo Gracias Anglia" (The Agincort Carol), and Thomas Ravenscroft's "O Lord, Turne Now Away Thy Face" and "Remember O Thou Man." Approximately half of the songs are secular, some from the popular tradition and others from the courtly poets and musicians surrounding such musically inclined monarchs as Henry VIII who himself is represented in this collection with two charming songs, "With Owt Dyscorde" and "O My Hart." Among the notable composers of Tudor and Elizabethan England represented here are Orlando Gibbons, John Dowland, and Thomas Weelkes. "

Author : Marisa Galvez
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226280516

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Songbook by Marisa Galvez Pdf

The medieval songbook as emergent genre -- Paradigms: the Carmina Burana and the Libro de Buen Amor -- Producing opaque coherence: lyric presence and names in songbooks -- Shifting mediality: visualizing lyric texts in songbooks -- Cancioneros and the art of the songbook -- Conclusion: songbook medievalisms.

Author : Musée Condé. Bibliothèque
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215335220

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"La la la maistre Henri ..." by Musée Condé. Bibliothèque Pdf

Most of the essays collected in this volume had their origins in a conference entitled Nouveaux regards sur le manuscript 564 de Chantilly/New Perspectives on the Chantilly Codex held on 13-15 September 2001 in Tours, under the auspices of the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance (Universite Francois Rabelais/Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique). The conference was the last in a series of meetings held that week marking the tenth anniversary of the musical research branch, Programme Ricercar. The idea to hold the conference had emerged in 1999 as we ourselves embarked on a collaborative project on this most fascinating of music sources from the late Middle Ages. Our own extended scrutiny of the codex and its contents, which has culminated in the publication of a detailed study and the first colour reproduction of the manuscript made us keenly aware of the significance of this source and its repertory to our understanding of the history of music before 1600. The Chantilly codex is beyond doubt one of the most important sources for late medieval secular polyphony.

Author : Helen Deeming,Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107062634

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Manuscripts and Medieval Song by Helen Deeming,Elizabeth Eva Leach Pdf

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

Author : Noah Greenberg
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171555

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An English Medieval and Renaissance Song Book by Noah Greenberg Pdf

Forty-seven vocal works from the 12th to the 17th centuries, including songs by Henry IV and Henry VIII as well as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Morley, and Thomas Weelkes.

Author : Fletcher Collins (Jr.),Robert Francis Cook,Roger Harmon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : French poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015007906632

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A Medieval songbook by Fletcher Collins (Jr.),Robert Francis Cook,Roger Harmon Pdf

Author : ROBERT BANCALARI
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609741457

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Medieval and Renaissance Music for Recorder - Bancalari by ROBERT BANCALARI Pdf

A unique assortment of 40 short pieces written for soprano recorder with suggested guitar chords. Selection include: Trouvere (Or la Truix); Estampie; La Rotta; Saltarello; Der Neve Villancico; Basse Dance (La Volunte'); Hoboeckentanz; Der Heiligen Drei Konige Aufzug; Polnischer Tanz; and more. A glossary and brief performance notes are provided.

Author : Marisa Galvez
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226280523

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Songbook by Marisa Galvez Pdf

How medieval songbooks were composed in collaboration with the community—and across languages and societies: “Eloquent…clearly argued.”—Times Literary Supplement Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received—a collaboration of artists, performers, live audiences, and readers stretching across languages and societies. The only comparative study of its kind, Songbook treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category poetry: that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself. Marisa Galvez analyzes the seminal songbooks representing the vernacular traditions of Occitan, Middle High German, and Castilian, and tracks the process by which the songbook emerged from the original performance contexts of oral publication, into a medium for preservation, and, finally, into an established literary object. Galvez reveals that songbooks—in ways that resonate with our modern practice of curated archives and playlists—contain lyric, music, images, and other nonlyric texts selected and ordered to reflect the local values and preferences of their readers. At a time when medievalists are reassessing the historical foundations of their field and especially the national literary canons established in the nineteenth century, a new examination of the songbook’s role in several vernacular traditions is more relevant than ever.

Author : Samuel N. Rosenberg,Margaret Switten,Gerard Le Vot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134819218

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Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres by Samuel N. Rosenberg,Margaret Switten,Gerard Le Vot Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Francesco Petrarca,James Wyatt Cook
Publisher : Mrts
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0866981926

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Petrarch's Songbook by Francesco Petrarca,James Wyatt Cook Pdf

"Petrarch's Canzoniere is a body of 366 poems, mostly sonnets but including forms such as madrigals and canzoni. These wonderful poems marked the intellectual and cultural divide between the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance. Cook's translation, a splendid poetic work in its own right, ""elegantly combining grace and accuracy... ranks among the best."" (K.V. Gouwens, UC-Santa Barbara). The translation, says Konrad Eisenbichler, ""captures the moods, tones, and variety of Petrarch's own verse. A truly remarkable feat."" Cook addresses the deceptive simplicity of Petrarch's vocabulary, the work's cultural context rendered here as broadly modern rather than facilely archaic, and the elegance of his poetic diction. The Italian text (ed. Gianfranco Contini) is printed on facing pages."

Author : Sarah Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578923327

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A Collection of Medieval Songs by Sarah Berry Pdf

Eight medieval era songs transcribed and arranged for the piano. Includes sheet music, history and musical theory.

Author : Eric Jager
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226391167

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The Book of the Heart by Eric Jager Pdf

In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metaphor when we speak of someone "reading" another's mind or a desire to "turn over a new leaf"—these phrases refer to the "book of the self," an idea that dates from the beginnings of Western culture. Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern day. He focuses especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modeled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art. For instance, medieval saints' legends tell of martyrs whose hearts recorded divine inscriptions; lyrics and romances feature lovers whose hearts are inscribed with their passion; paintings depict hearts as books; and medieval scribes even produced manuscript codices shaped like hearts. "The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas."—Henry Petroski, author of The Book on the Bookshelf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316246132

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Manuscripts and Medieval Song by Anonim Pdf

Author : Suzannah Clark,Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 184383166X

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Citation and Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture by Suzannah Clark,Elizabeth Eva Leach Pdf

Essays - collected in honour of Margaret Bent - examining how medieval and Renaissance composers responded to the tradition in which they worked through a process of citation of and commentary on earlier authors.