Vernacular song (list A) lecture 6

This lecture looks at the reception of monophonic medieval vernacular song, from the earliest manuscript copies to modern performances.

Podlecture 6: Reception

Information about manuscript images online

General reading on reception

Aubrey, Elizabeth. The Music of the Troubadours. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Aubrey, Elizabeth. ‘Vernacular Song I: Lyric’ in The Cambridge History of Medieval Music, ed. Mark Everist and Thomas Forrest Kelly (Cambridge, 2018), vol. 1, 382–427.
Galvez, Marisa. Songbook: How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Haines, John. Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Reading on the issue of rhythm

Haines, John. “The ‘Modal Theory’, Fencing and the Death of Pierre Aubry.” Plainsong and Medieval Music 6 (1997): 143-50.
Haines, John. “The Footnote Quarrels of the Modal Theory: A Remarkable Episode in the Reception of Medieval Music.” Early Music History 20 (2001): 87-120.
Lug, Robert. Semi-mensurale Informationen zur Liedrhythmik des 13. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2020. [NB: in German]
Maddrell, J. E. “Mensura and the Rhythm of Medieval Monophonic Song.” Current Musicology 10 (1970): 64-69.
Stevens, John. Words and Music in the Middle Ages: Song, Narrative, Dance and Drama, 1050-1350. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Tischler, Hans. “Rhythm, Meter, and Melodic Organization in Medieval Songs.” Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap 28-30 (1974-1976): 5-23.
van der Werf, Hendrik. “The “Not-so-precisely Measured” Music of the Middle Ages.” Performance Practice Review 1 (1988): 42-60
Wulstan, David. The Emperor’s Old Clothes: The Rhythm of Mediaeval Song. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Vol. 76, Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2001.

Referring to other aspects of performance

Ferreira, Manuel Pedro. “Andalusian Music and the Cantigas de Santa Maria.” Chap. 2 In Cobras e son: Papers on the Text, Music and Manuscripts of the ‘Cantigas de Santa Maria’, edited by Stephen Parkinson. 7-19. Oxford: Legenda, 2000
Haines, John. “The Arabic Style of Performing Medieval Music.” Early Music 29, no. 3 (2001): 369-78.
Huot, Sylvia. “Voices and Instruments in Medieval French Secular Music: On the Use of Literary Evidence for Performance Practice.” Musica Disciplina 43 (1989): 63-113.
McGee, Timothy J. The Sound of Medieval Song: Ornamentation and Vocal Style according to the Treatises. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Page, Christopher. “Music and Chivalric Fiction in France, 1150-1300.” Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 111 (1984): 1-27.
Phillips, Jenna. “Singers Without Borders: a Performer’s Rotulus and the Transmission of Jeux Partis.” Journal of Medieval History 45, no. 1 (2019): 55-79.