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Performance workshop 3: JP30

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date June 2, 2017
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A third post from the performance workshop with graindelavoix, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust and held at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in March 2017.

Tags 13thC, 14thC, manuscripts, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, research, song, Songs

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Performance Workshop 2: JP4

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date May 23, 2017
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A second post from the performance workshop with graindelavoix, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust and held at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in March 2017.

Tags 13thC, 14thC, medieval, Middle Ages, musicology, research, song

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Performance Workshop 1: JP27a

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date May 5, 2017
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A first post from the performance workshop with graindelavoix, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust and held at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in March 2017.

Tags 13thC, 14thC, jeu-parti, manuscripts, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, research, song, Songs

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The source materials for large medieval chansonniers

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date August 22, 2016
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How were large collections of lyric poetry (with or without music) assembled?

Tags 13thC, 14thC, history of the book, manuscripts, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, song, Songs

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The Philosopher’s Pony Play

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date May 28, 2016
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Image by Vassil — Personal work, CC0

For all that he is The Philosopher in the later Middle Ages, the most striking iconographical depictions of Aristotle from the period are of him on all fours, being ridden by a woman.

Tags 13thC, Alexander the Great, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, song, Songs

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Sorting out the works of Gautier d’Espinal

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date March 25, 2016
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Wikipedia’s list of Gautier’s works looked a bit thin to me, so I’ve edited the page (fingers crossed the edits persist!)

Tags 13thC, medieval, medieval song, Middle Ages, musicology, online access, song, Songs

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Putting a tune to a tuneless song

Post author By Elizabeth Eva Leach
Post date October 23, 2015
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The fifth song in the grands chants is unique to Douce 308 and is thus transmitted to us without any melody. However, its versification makes it possible to sing it to the tune of a song with a similar poetic structure.