| Series |
Variorum collected studies series ; CS562
Collected studies ; CS562. ^A355371
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| Contents |
Biblical instruments in medieval illustration -- Machaut's "pupil" Deschamps on the performance of music: voices or instruments in the 14th-century chanson? -- String-instrument making in medieval England and some Oxford harp-makers, 1380-1466 -- Early fifteenth-century instruments in Jean de Gerson's Tractatus de canticis -- The earliest English keyboard -- The myth of the chekker -- Jerome of Moravia on the rubeba and the viella -- Fourteenth-century instruments and tunings: a treatise by Jean Vaillant? (Berkley [i.e., Berkeley], MS 744) -- The fifteenth-century lute : new and neglected sources -- German musicians and their instruments: a fourteenth-century account by Konrad of Megenburg -- The performance of songs in late medieval France: a new source -- The medieval organistrum and symphonia (1): a legacy from the East? -- The medieval organistrum and symphonia (2): terminology -- The rhymed office for St Thomas of Lancaster: poetry, politics and liturgy in fourteenth-century England -- In the direction of the beginning -- Music and chivalric fiction in France, 1150-1300 -- The performance of ars antiqua motets -- A treatise on musicians from ?c. 1400: the Tractatulus de differentiis et gradibus cantorum by Arnulf de St Ghislain -- Le troisième accord pour vièle de Jérome de Moravie: jongleurs et "anciens pères de France" -- Johannes de Grocheio on secular music: a corrected text and a new translation. |
| Abstract |
The studies assembled in this work include Medieval writings of many kinds--sermons, books of theology, epics and romances, as well as technical treatises on music--containing a wealth of information about the music and instruments of the Middle Ages. |
| General note | Essays originally appearing in various journals. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 97002605 |
| ISBN | 0860786234 (hb : alk. paper) |
