Poets and Singers

On Latin and Vernacular Monophonic Song

Elizabeth Aubrey, Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly

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Routledge
28 February 2009

Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600)

Series: Music in Medieval Europe

Extant manuscripts are the principal medieval testimony to the art of monophonic song.

Literary texts and archival materials, a few theoretical works, and numerous visual representations provide helpful perspective, but our path to the poets and singers lies through the efforts of scribes, and the myriad problems in interpreting what they tell us cast a long shadow over all research on monophonic song.

The essays gathered here represent the principal themes and issues that have occupied scholars of late medieval monophonic songs over the last half century: their place in history and society, the role of women as composers and performers, poetic and musical structures, styles, and genres, relationships between poems and melodies, written and oral transmission, and performance practices.

Studying how each of these themes is played out across repertoires, cultures, decades, and locations offers a rich and variegated panorama of the practice of song in late medieval Europe.

Edited by: Elizabeth Aubrey
Series edited by: Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 172mm,
Weight: 1.270kg
ISBN: 9780754627074
ISBN 10: 0754627071
Series: Music in Medieval Europe
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 28 February 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elizabeth Aubrey is Professor of Music at the University of Iowa and an internationally- acclaimed scholar of medieval music and literature, with numerous publications on the music of France during the Middle Ages. Her articles and reviews appear in American and European journals of musicology, literature, and medieval studies, in conference proceedings of international musical and literary societies, and in other important volumes published in the US and Europe.

Reviews for Poets and Singers: On Latin and Vernacular Monophonic Song

'...the introductions to each volume are excellent...' Early Music Review '...a monumental achievement and a resource of exceeding value to the scholar of medieval lyric.' Encomia '...very stimulating material for study and research and an excellent teaching resource.' The Medieval Review