Description: The essays gathered here represent the principal themes and issues that have occupied scholars of late medieval monophonic songs over the last half century: their place in history and society; the role of women as composers and performers; poetic and musical structures, styles and genres; relationships between poems and melodies; written and oral transmission; and performance practices. Studying how each of these themes is played out across repertoires, cultures, decades and locations offers a rich and variegated panorama of the practice of song in late medieval Europe.
Review Quotes: '...the introductions to each volume are excellent...' Early Music Review '...a monumental achievement and a resource of exceeding value to the scholar of medieval lyric.' Encomia '...very stimulating material for study and research and an excellent teaching resource.' The Medieval Review