The medieval lyric / Peter Dronke.
| Author/creator | Dronke, Peter |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Third edition. |
| Publication Info | Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1996. |
| Description | xxi, 288 pages : music ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: performers and performance. The performer's travels ; The performer's and composer's social status ; The mode of performance ; The performer's repertoire -- The rise of religious lyric. Beginnings ; The early sequence ; The eleventh century ; Twelfth-century France ; Italy and the Franciscans ; Early English lyrics ; Spain and Portugal ; Germany and the Low Countries -- 'Cantigas de amigo' -- Transformations of medieval lovelyric. Guillaume and Kurenberc ; Troubadours and trouveres ; Minnesang ; A Latin lyric ; English and Galician love-songs ; From the Sicilians to Dante -- The Alba -- Dance-songs -- Lyrics of realism -- Postscript 1977 -- Melodies. |
| Abstract | This book offers a bird's-eye view of Western European culture in the middle ages (and familiarity with the languages) and presents the poetry of the time in context. The author shows the men and women who sang and played in medieval Europe as the heirs of both a Roman and a Germanic lyric tradition, united but differentiated from country to country; he introduces the scholars and musicians from the Byzantine world and the Paris schools, the German courts and Italian city-states, and he presents their work, both sacred and profane. The melodies are given for twelve of the lyrics discussed, an important reminder that music was for a medieval audience and an essential complement to the lyric. |
| General note | Previous edition: London : Hutchinson, 1978. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-276) and index. |
| LCCN | 95052649 |
| ISBN | 0859914984 |
| ISBN | 0859914844 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780859914840 (pbk.) |