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A Medieval Songbook - Trouvere MS C (Hardcover)
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A Medieval Songbook - Trouvere MS C (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
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Detailed exploration of an enigmatic manuscript containing the
texts to hundreds of songs, but no musical notation. The medieval
songbook known variously as trouvere 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 trouveres, 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 the 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.
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