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Author:   Anna Kathryn Grau ,  Lisa Colton
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004429680

ISBN 10:   9004429689
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   26 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Music Examples Notes on Contributors Introduction: Female Authorship, Female Voice, and Female-Voice Song  Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton PART 1: Ritual Discourse 1 The Feminine Voice in the Early Islamicate Courts (661–1000)  Lisa Nielson 2 Music, Liturgy, and the Discursive Construction of Gender in a Thirteenth-Century Double Monastery  Lauren Purcell-Joiner 3 A Female-Voice Ceremonial from Medieval Castile  David Catalunya 4 Religious Reform and Liturgical Change in the Fifteenth Century: Chant as Women’s Protest Music  Claire Taylor Jones PART 2: Materiality 5 Beyond this Mist: Uncovering Material Multiplicities in Amis, amis  Rachel May Golden 6 Transmission of Female-Voice Motets in Late Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts  Anna Kathryn Grau 7 Chants for the Holy Trinity of Barking Abbey: Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild  Anne Bagnall Yardley PART 3: Subjectivity and Emotion 8 Handmade Women: The Manufacture of Femininity in the Chansons de femme  Helen Dell 9 The Voice of Emotion: Constructing an Identity for the Comtessa de Dia in Performance  Leah Stuttard 10 “Going all the Way with Marot”: Empowerment in the Pastourelle Motet L’autrier m’esbatoie/Demenant grant joie/MANERE  Lisa Colton 11 Sexuality, Pedagogy, and Women’s Emotions in Middle English Songs  Carissa M. Harris 12 “Who cannot wepe come lerne at me”: Voicing Refrains in Late Medieval Passion Lyric  Melissa Tu PART 4: Representation 13 A Song from the Mound: The Female Voice as a Repository for Genealogical Knowledge in Hyndluljóð  Annemari Ferreira 14 Eye, Mouth, and Heart: The Female-Voiced Contrafacta of Can vei la lauzeta mover  Meghan Quinlan 15 A Musical Letter from Eleanor of Provence to Margaret of Scotland: Patronage as Authorship in the Sequence Ex te lux oritur  Gillian L. Gower 16 Female Voice in the Trecento Song  Angelica Vomera 17 Saints and Sinners: The Representation of Women in Late-Medieval English Carols  Louise McInnes Index

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Anna Kathryn Grau is lecturer and Music & Performing Art Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her published work includes research on gendered voices within Old French motets, it has appeared in Gender & Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song (ed. Katherine Kong and Rachel Golden, University Press of Florida, 2021). Lisa Colton is Professor of Musicology at the University of Huddersfield. Her publications include Angel Song: Medieval English Music in History (Routledge, 2017) and the co-edited book Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

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