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Grafting musicology and literary studies together in an
unprecedented manner, Giving Voice to Love: Song and
Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut
investigates French and Occitan "courtly love" songs from the
twelfth to fourteenth centuries and explores the paradoxical
relationship of music and self-expression in the Middle Ages. While
these love songs conceived and expressed the autonomous subject -
the lyric "I" represented by a single line of melody - they also
engaged highly conventional musical and poetic language, and
required performers and scribes for their transmission. This
paradox was understood by the poets and became the basis for irony,
parody, and intertextual referencing, which instilled the lyrics
with a characteristic self-consciousness that reflected the
unstable conditions for self-expression.
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