Medieval Song in Romance Languages

Medieval Song in Romance Languages
Title Medieval Song in Romance Languages PDF eBook
Author John Dickinson Haines
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 321
Release 2010-11-18
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0521765749

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Ranging from 500 to 1200, this book considers the neglected vernacular music of this period, performed mainly by women.

Love Songs

Love Songs
Title Love Songs PDF eBook
Author Ted Gioia
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 332
Release 2015
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199357579

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Uncovers the unexplored history of the love song, from the fertility rites of ancient cultures to the sexualized YouTube videos of the present day, and discusses such topics as censorship, the legacy of love songs, and why it is a dominant form of modern musical expression.

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song
Title Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song PDF eBook
Author Mary Channen Caldwell
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 313
Release 2022-03-31
Genre History
ISBN 1316517195

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This book reveals the importance of sung refrains in the musical lives of religious communities in medieval Europe.

Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera

Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
Title Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera PDF eBook
Author Sarah Kay
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 383
Release 2022-07-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 150176389X

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Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality—as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils—Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard. Kay understands song in terms of breath, the constellations, the animal soul, and life itself. Her method also draws inspiration from opera, especially those that inventively recreate medieval song, arguing for a perspective on the manuscripts that transmit medieval song as instances of multimedia, quasi-operatic performances. Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera features a companion website (cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/medieval-song) hosting twenty-four audio or video recordings, realized by professional musicians specializing in early music, of pieces discussed in the book, together with performance scores, performance reflections, and translations of all recorded texts. These audiovisual materials represent an extension in practice of the research aims of the book—to better understand the sung dimension of medieval song.

Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond

Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond
Title Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond PDF eBook
Author Francesco Stella
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 726
Release 2024-07-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9027247293

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The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet.

Manuscripts and Medieval Song

Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Title Manuscripts and Medieval Song PDF eBook
Author Helen Deeming
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 347
Release 2015-05-28
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1107062632

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This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.

The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry

The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry
Title The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Saltzstein
Publisher DS Brewer
Pages 210
Release 2013
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1843843498

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A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates; she argues that their appropriation of scholastic, Latinate writing techniques workedto authorize Old French music and poetry as media suitable for the transmission of knowledge. Beginning with an exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goeson to articulate a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouvères Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how, by blending their craftwith the writing practices of the universities, composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation. Jennifer Saltzstein is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma.