UID:
almafu_9960742408702883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 264 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781800103764
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180010376X
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 24
Content:
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 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.
Note:
A Medieval Songbook: Trouvère MS C -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Music Examples -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Editorial practices -- Introduction -- The Trouvère Manuscripts of the Burgerbibliothek Bern -- The Lorraine Repertoire of C -- Chansonnier C: Contents, Stemmatic Position, Particularities -- A Note on the Decoration of C and its Artistic Context -- Author Ascriptions and Genre Labels in C -- Common Exemplars of U and C -- Shared Small Sources for Two Early Fourteenth-Century Metz Chansonniers? -- The Legacy of Thibaut de Champagne in C -- Strategies of Appropriation in Jacques de Cambrai's Devotional Contrafacts -- Jeux-Partis and their Contrafacts in C -- C and Polyphonic Motets: Exemplars, Adaptations, and Scribal Priorities -- Appendix: List of Songs in C -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources -- Index of Songs -- General Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783276523
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1783276525
Language:
English
Keywords:
Essays.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.1515/9781800103764
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781800103764/type/BOOK
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