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Informationen zum Autor John Haines holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, where he is an Associate Professor cross-appointed at the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Faculty of Music. He has published on medieval music and its modern reception in many journals, from Romania and Scriptorium to Early Music History and Music and Letters. He is the author of Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères (Cambridge, 2004) and Satire in the Songs of Renart le nouvel (2009), and is the co-editor of Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance (2004). Klappentext Ranging from 500 to 1200! John Haines considers the neglected vernacular music of this period! performed mainly by women. Zusammenfassung Proposing a new view of medieval music history! this study surveys songs in early Romance languages from around 500 to 1200. An enormous body of neglected songs - laments! love songs! epics and devotional songs - were performed during this period! attested in sources such as sermons! considered here in detail. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Medieval Song in Romance Languages: 1. Song; 2. Lament; 3. Love song; 4. Epic song; 5. Devotional song; 6. Conclusion; Appendix. Medieval condemnations of dance songs; Bibliography; Manuscript sources; Part II. Songs with Musical Notation.
