How were large collections of lyric poetry (with or without music) assembled?
Category: medieval singers
Copies of my new co-edited book now received!
I was honoured to be invited to give the opening Plenary lecture at the MAA annual meeting, this year held at the University of Notre Dame in the US.
Texte et présentation Powerpoint sur le contrepoint chez Machaut.
The newly recognized relevance to musicology of a short article from 1905 about words for driving beasts of burden.
My review of Judith Peraino’s book on subjectivity in late trouvère song has appeared in Early Music.
Links to some bits of the medieval German vernacular song repertoire now online.
One of the world’s oldest musical societies discusses the role of music in death.
The online resource Gallica is adding stuff all the time — it’s hard to keep up. This post is about their coverage of some of the main medieval monophonic song books.[NB: now updated to include sources outside Gallica!]
Elizabeth Eva Leach 