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Author Peters, Gretchen

Title The Musical Sounds of Medieval French Cities : Players, Patrons, and Politics
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages)
Contents Cover; The Musical Sounds of Medieval French Cities; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Playing before the council: civic patronage in southern France; Languedoc: Montpellier, Narbonne, Nîmes; Montpellier; Narbonne; Nîmes; Southwestern France: Toulouse, Albi, and Bordeaux; Toulouse; Bordeaux; Albi; Provence: Avignon, Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, Orange, and Apt; Avignon; Marseilles; Aix-en-Provence, Apt, and Orange; 2 In honor of nobility: civic patronage in central France; The Loire Valley: Tours and Orléans
Champagne: Troyes, Reims, and Châlons-en-ChampagneTroyes; Reims; Châlons-en-Champagne; Burgundy: Dijon; Rhône-Alpes region: Lyons; 3 For the honor and pleasure of the city: civic patronage in northern France; Flanders: Lille, Saint-Omer, Tournai, Arras, and Douai; Lille; Saint-Omer; Tournai, Arras, and Douai; North of Paris: Beauvais and Amiens; Beauvais; Amiens; 4 From confraternal processions to weddings to bathhouses: freelancing in the urban environment; Charitable associations; Churches; Universities; Weddings; On the streets and at festivities; Inns and bathhouses; Teaching
Instrument makingNon-musical sources of income; 5 Playing en couble: professional relationships among minstrels; Confraternities; Guilds; Apprenticeships; Journeymen relationships; Partnerships; Minstrel schools; 6 "A minister of Satan" and "an honor to the city": conflicting images of the medieval minstrel; The musician as itinerant outcast; The musician as respected member of the city; Economic status of musicians; Mobility of musicians; Musicians' residences; The musician as individual; Appendix: musical instruments in the archival records of the study; Bombard
Chaplechou (chaplechou, chappe chault)Coradois; Cornet sarrasinois; Cornet; Cornamusa (cornamuza); Douçaine (doussaine, dossena); Fiddle (viele, vieille, vielle); Flute (flahut, flaut, flote, pifanssa); Gittern (citare, citara, cithara, ghistern, gistern, guitarn); Harp (arpa, arpe, harpe, herpe); Horn (cor, corn); Hurdy-gurdy (chiffonye, chifognie, simphognie); Lute (laut, lauza, leu, leuz, leut, leute, luz); Nakers (nachar, nacar, naquar); Organ (organ, orgue, orgues, orguene); Pipe and tabor (tabor, tabourin, tambourin, tabourin cum fistula, tympanum cum fistula); Psaltery (psalterion)
Rebec (rabec, rebec, robec)Shawm (calamilla, chalamela, chalamyna, chalimale, challemye, charamella, charamina, charmayre, chemaule, hault bois); Timballa and timbol (tamborello); Trumpet (cleron, namphil, trompa, trompeta, trompilh); Bibliography; Inventories; Aix-en-Provence; Albi; Amiens; Arras; Avignon; Beauvais; Cambrai; Châlons-sur-Marne; Dijon; Douai; Lyons; Marseilles; Montpellier; Nîmes; Orange; Orléans; Rouen; Toulouse; Troyes; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index; Index of musicians
Summary Based upon newly uncovered archival evidence, this book establishes urban musical traditions of over twenty cities in late medieval France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Music -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 15th century
Music patronage -- France -- History -- 15th century
Music -- France -- 15th century -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
Music
Music patronage
Music -- Social aspects
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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