Poets and Singers : On Latin and Vernacular Monophonic Song (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction: poets, singers, scribes and historians; Part I History and Society: Music and chivalric fiction 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, Cyrilla Barr. Part II Women: Diminishing the trobairitz, excluding the women trouveres, Joan Tasker Grimbert; Women's performance of the lyric before 1500, Susan Boynton. Part III 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 trouvere 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. Part IV Transmission: The trouvere MS tradition, Theodore Karp; The trouvere chansons as creations of a notationless musical culture, Hendrik van der Werf; Probleme um die melodien des Minnesangs, Ursula Aarburg. Part V Performance: 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 van der Werf, 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; Index.