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A Medieval Songbook: Trouvère MS C

A Medieval Songbook: Trouvère MS C

Thomson, Matthew P.
Leach, Elizabeth Eva
Mason, Joseph W.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, Book 24

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1783276525
ISBN13: 9781783276523
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Feb 18 2022
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation.

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.

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