Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
The Changing Identity of Medieval Music
Part of Musical Performance and Reception
- Author: John Haines, University of Toronto
- Date Published: June 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521108140
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This 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. Important stages include sixteenth-century antiquarianism, the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm. More often than now, writers and performers have negotiated a compromise between historical research and a more imaginative approach to envisioning the music of troubadours and trouveres. This book points not so much to a resurrection of medieval music in modern times as to a continuous tradition of interpreting these songs over eight centuries.
Read more- An unprecedented pre-history of 'early music'
- The first large-scale reception history of medieval music
- Important work on historiography devoted to little-studied topics (like notion of 'naif') and persons (like Moncrif)
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521108140
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- contains: 12 tables 53 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The first readers
2. The changing song
3. Enlightened readers
4. The science of translation
5. Recent readings
6. Conclusions
7. Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
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