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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460213603321

Titolo

'Prions en chantant' : devotional songs of the trouvères / / edited and translated by Marcia Jenneth Epstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-4426-5995-5

1-4426-5536-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations ; ; 11

Disciplina

264.06502

Soggetti

Sacred songs, Unaccompanied

Trouvère songs

Songs, Old French

Sacred vocal music - France - 500-1400

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Unaccompanied melodies, in original and modern notation.

Sixty-one songs in the manuscripts Paris, Bibliothèque nationale Fr. 24406 and N.A.Fr. 1050.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Manuscript Sigla -- 1 The Manuscript Sources of the Trouvere Songs as Visual Records -- 2 The Trouvère Devotional Songs in the Context of Popular Culture -- 3 The Texts -- 4 The Music -- Appendix A: Notational forms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Introduction to the Edition -- Songs -- THE DEVOTIONAL SONGS OF MANUSCRIPTS X AND V -- Appendix B: Additional Stanzas -- Appendix C: Alternative Musical Notation -- Title Index -- General Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The rich medieval French tradition of vernacular devotional songs has not received much scrutiny. With Prions en chantant, Marcia Epstein aims to remedy that situation by offering an edition of largely anonymous trouvère devotional songs, designed for both scholars and performers, from two late-thirteenth-century manuscripts. The majority of the music is published here for the first time. Sixty-one



songs are presented, with forty-nine songs exhibited in Old French with a facing-page modern English translation followed by old musical notation and facing-page with modern musical transcription. An additional twelve songs, which lack music in the original sources, are represented by the Old French text and the modern English translation only. The introduction extensively describes the social, musical, literary and theological aspects of the trouvère songs contained in the volume. This is a valuable and welcome addition to the study of medieval music.