| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Series |
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music ; 24 |
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Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 24
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| Contents |
Introduction / Elizabeth Eva Leach, Joseph W. Mason, and Matthew P. Thomson -- The trouvère manuscripts of the Burgerbibliothek Bern / Florian Mittenhuber ; translated by Henry Hope -- The Lorraine repertoire of C / Mélanie Lévêque-Fougre -- Chansonnier C : contents, stemmatic position, particularities / Paola Moreno -- A note on the decoration of C and its artistic context / Alison Stones -- Author ascriptions and genre labels in C / Luca Gatti -- Common exemplars of U and C / Robert Lug -- Shared small sources for two early fourteenth-century Metz chansonniers? / Elizabeth Eva Leach -- The legacy of Thibaut de Champagne in C / Daniel E. O'Sullivan -- Strategies of appropriation in Jacques de Cambrai's devotional contrafacts / Christopher Callahan -- Jeux-partis and their contrafacts in C / Joseph W. Mason -- C and polyphonic motets : exemplars, adaptations, and scribal priorities / Matthew P. Thomson -- Appendix: List of songs in C |
| Summary |
"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."--From publisher's description |
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Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, June 6, 2022) |
| Subject |
Burgerbibliothek Bern. Manuscript. Codex 389.
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| SUBJECT |
De clarea fast |
| Subject |
French poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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Songs, French -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
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MUSIC / History & Criticism.
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French poetry
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Songs, French
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leach, Elizabeth Eva, editor
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Mason, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1991- editor
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Thomson, Matthew P. (Matthew Paul), 1990- editor
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Mittenhuber, Florian
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Lévêque-Fougre, Mélanie
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Moreno, Paola
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Stones, Alison
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Gatti, Luca
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Lug, Robert
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Daniel O'Sullivan, Daniel
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| ISBN |
9781800103764 |
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180010376X |
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