Words and Music in the Middle Ages

Contents

• Part I . Number in Music and Verse:
• 1. The Courtly Chanson;
• 2. Latin Songs: Conductus and Cantio;
• 3. The Sequence;
• 4. Lai and Planctus;
• Part II . Relations of Speech, Action, Emotion and Meaning:
• 5. The Dance Song;
• 6. Narrative Melody I: Epic and Chanson de Geste;
• 7. Narrative Melody II: Saint's Life and Liturgical narrative;
• 8. Speech and Melody: Gregorian Chant;
• 9. Drama I: Liturgy, Ceremony and Play;
• 10. Drama II: Music, Action and Emotion;
• 11. Music and Meaning: the Problem of Expressiveness;
• Part III . Melody, Rhythm and Metre:
• 12. The Theorists;
• 13. Palaeography, Notion and Presentation;
• 14. Rhythm and Genre;
• 15. Works and Music a Balanced Relationship.