Poetry and Music in Medieval France
From Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut
Part of Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
- Author: Ardis Butterfield, University College London
- Date Published: February 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521622196
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Ardis Butterfield examines the relationship between the poetry and music of medieval France. Beginning when French song was first set into writing in the early thirteenth century, Butterfield describes the wide range of contexts in which secular songs were quoted and copied. Including narrative romances, satires and love poems, the book reveals the development of French song and narrative genres during a significant period of history.
Read more- Interdisciplinary study, combining literary and musical approaches
- Lavishly illustrated with pictures and music examples
- Will appeal to literary and musical historians
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"An immensely useful and illuminating study...going well beyond what others have done." French Studies
See more reviews"Ardis Butterfield has created a profoundly incisive text exploring the relationship between poetry and music in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century France. The beautifully illustrated volume has much to offer: thorough scholarship in the text, a fine appendix, glossary, and bibliography, as well as an index." Arthuriana
"Ardis Butterfield's new book on poetry and music in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century France gives one hope for the bright future of medieval studies. Not only does it act upon the interdisciplinarity its title preaches, but it also builds and improves on an already venerable musico-philological study [...] Butterfield's new book has shown us the rich musico-literary potential of these late French medieval repertories by offering up a model of the kind of interdisciplinary study required from now on." Notes and Queries
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- Date Published: February 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521622196
- length: 398 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.75kg
- contains: 24 b/w illus. 4 tables 18 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
List of music examples
Acknowledgments
Bibliographical note
List of abbreviations
Prologue
Part I. Text and Performance:
1. Song and written record in the early thirteenth century
2. The sources of song: chansonniers, narratives, dance-song
3. The performance of song in Jean Renart's Rose
Part II. The Boundaries of Genre:
4. The refrain
5. Refrains in context: a case study
6. Contrafacta: from secular to sacred in Gautier de Coinci and later thirteenth-century writing
Part III. The Location of Culture:
7. 'Courtly' and 'popular' in the thirteenth century
8. Urban culture: Arras and the puys
9. The cultural contexts of Adam de la Halle
Part IV. Modes of Inscription:
10. Songs in writing: the evidence of the manuscripts
11. Chante/fable: Aucassin et Nicolette
12. Writing music, writing poetry: Le Roman de Fauvel in Paris BN fr. 146
Part V: Lyric and Narrative:
13. The two Roses: Machaut and the thirteenth century
14. Rewriting song: chanson, motet, salut, and dit
15. Citation and authorship from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century
Part VI. Envoy: The New Art:
16. The Formes fixes: from Adam de la Halle to Guillaume de Machaut
Epilogue
Glossary
Appendix
Bibliography.
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