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Author:   Helen Deeming (Royal Holloway, University of London) ,  Elizabeth Eva Leach (University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9781107062634

ISBN 10:   1107062632
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   28 May 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach; 1. New light on the earliest medieval songbook Sam Barrett; 2. The careful cantor and the Carmina Cantabrigiensia Jeremy Llewellyn; 3. Across divides: Aquitaine's new song and London, British Library, Additional 36881 Rachel May Golden; 4. Wine, women, and song? Reconsidering the Carmina Burana Gundela Bobeth, translated by Henry Hope; 5. An English monastic miscellany: the Reading manuscript of Sumer is icumen in Helen Deeming; 6. Preserving and recycling: functional multiplicity and shifting priorities in the compilation and continued use of London, British Library, Egerton 274 Helen Deeming; 7. Minnesänger, music, miniatures: the Codex Manesse Henry Hope; 8. Writing, performance and devotion in the thirteenth-century motet: the 'La Clayette' manuscript Sean Curran; 9. A courtly compilation: the Douce Chansonnier Elizabeth Eva Leach; 10. Machaut's first single-author compilation Elizabeth Eva Leach; 11. Songs, scattered and gathered Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach.

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Helen Deeming is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has taught medieval music at Cambridge, King's College London, Southampton and Royal Holloway, University of London and won several teaching prizes. She is the editor of Songs in British Sources, c.1150–1300, Musica Britannica, Volume 95 (2013) - a scholarly edition that makes many songs available in print for the first time. Elizabeth Eva Leach is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. Her publications include Guillaume de Machaut: Poet, Secretary, Musician (2011), Sung Birds: Music, Nature and Poetry in the Later Middle Ages (2007), Citation in Medieval and Renaissance Musical Culture (co-edited with Suzannah Clark, 2005) and Machaut's Music: New Interpretations (editor, 2003). In 2013 she was awarded the Dent medal of the Royal Musical Association; she was also winner of the 2012 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize of the Renaissance Society of America, and the 2007 Outstanding Publication Award of the Society for Music Theory.

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