Poetry and music in medieval France : from Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut / Ardis Butterfield.

Author/creator Butterfield, Ardis
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxx, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Music and literature.
Troubadour songs--History and criticism.
Trouvère songs--History and criticism.
Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.
Mensural notation.

SeriesCambridge studies in medieval literature ; 49
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 49. ^A223309
Contents Text and performance. Song and written record in the early thirteenth century ; The sources of song: chansonniers, narratives, dance-song ; The performance of song in Jean Renart's Rose -- The boundaries of genre. The refrain ; Refrains in context: a case study ; Contrafacta: from secular to sacred in Gautier de Coinci and later thirteenth-century writing -- The location of culture. 'Courtly' and 'popular' in the thirteenth century ; Urban culture: Arras and the puys ; The cultural contexts of Adam de la Halle: Le jeu de Robin et de Marion -- Modes of inscription. Songs in writing: the evidence of the manuscripts ; Chante/fable: Aucassin et Nicolette ; Writing music, writing poetry: Le Roman de Fauvel in Paris BN fr. 146 -- Lyric and narrative. The two Roses: Machaut and the thirteenth century ; Rewriting song: chanson, motet, salut, and dit ; Citation and authorship from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century -- Envoy: The new art. The formes fixes: from Adam de la Halle to Guillaume de Machaut -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Appendix. Manuscript sources of song in narrative and didactic texts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries from Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut: an annotated catalogue.
Abstract This book examines French vernacular song in the Middle Ages. The author begins with the moment when French song first survives in writing in the early thirteenth century, and examines a large corpus of works which combine elements of narrative and song, as well as a range of genres which cross between different musical and literary categories. Emphasising the cosmopolitan artistic milieu of Arras, she describes the wide range of contexts in which secular songs were quoted and copied, including narrative romances, satires and love poems. She uses manuscript evidence to shed light on medieval perceptions of how music and poetry were composed and interpreted. The volume is copiously illustrated to demonstrate the rich visual culture of medieval French writing and music. This interdisciplinary study will be of interest to both literary and musical scholars of late medieval culture.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and indexes.
LCCN 2002025747
ISBN0521622190

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