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Poetry and Music in Medieval France

From Jean Renart to Guillaume de Machaut

  • Author: Butterfield, Ardis

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Contents

  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • List of music examples
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliographical note
  • List of abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Part I . Text and Performance:
  • 1. Song and written record in the early thirteenth century
  • 2. The sources of song: chansonniers, narratives, dance-song
  • 3. The performance of song in Jean Renart's Rose
  • Part II . The Boundaries of Genre:
  • 4. The refrain
  • 5. Refrains in context: a case study
  • 6. Contrafacta: from secular to sacred in Gautier de Coinci and later thirteenth-century writing
  • Part III . The Location of Culture:
  • 7. 'Courtly' and 'popular' in the thirteenth century
  • 8. Urban culture: Arras and the puys
  • 9. The cultural contexts of Adam de la Halle
  • Part IV . Modes of Inscription:
  • 10. Songs in writing: the evidence of the manuscripts
  • 11. Chante/fable: Aucassin et Nicolette
  • 12. Writing music, writing poetry: Le Roman de Fauvel in Paris BN fr. 146
  • Part V : Lyric and Narrative:
  • 13. The two Roses: Machaut and the thirteenth century
  • 14. Rewriting song: chanson, motet, salut, and dit
  • 15. Citation and authorship from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century
  • Part VI . Envoy: The New Art:
  • 16. The Formes fixes: from Adam de la Halle to Guillaume de Machaut
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography.