Performance and the Middle English Romance / Linda Marie Zaerr.

Author
Zaerr, Linda Marie [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2012.
Description
x, 284 pages : music ; 25 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: Middle English Romance
    • `Sum Farand Thinge Eftir Fode'
    • Minstrels and the Critics
    • `This Song I Herde Sing'
    • Orality in a Broader Cultural Context
    • Historical Performance
    • Overview
    • 1. Continental Traditions of Narrative Performance
    • Metaperformance Dimensions of Romance
    • Harping about Harping
    • Heroine Minstrels and the Role of Gender in Performance
    • Minstrels and Minstrel Performance
    • Records of Music for Narrative
    • 2. English Minstrel in History and Romance
    • Fiddlers Who Sang Gray Steel
    • Historical Records of Narrative Performance in Late Medieval England
    • Romance References to Minstrel Performance
    • 3. Musical Instruments and Narrative
    • Instruments Associated with Narrative
    • Lute
    • Harp
    • Fiddle
    • What the Fiddle Reveals about Narrative Performance
    • Implications for Instrumental Accompaniment of Narrative
    • 4. Metre, Accent, and Rhythm
    • Middle English Verse
    • Rhythm in Verse and Music
    • `Edi beo thu': Rhythmic Implications of an English Melody
    • Wave-Particle Model of Middle English Verse
    • Rhythmic Structures in the Tail-Rhyme Stanza
    • Rhythmic Variation in Middle English Romance Manuscripts
    • Flexible Realization of a Metrical Verse Design
    • 5. Music and the Middle English Romance
    • Contribution of Historical Performance to the Study of Narrative
    • Combining Voice and Fiddle
    • Unrhymed Alliterative Long Lines
    • Tail-Rhyme and Other Stanza Forms
    • Couplets and the Miscibility of Form: The Case of Gray Steel
    • Recognizing Traces of Performance
    • 6. Conclusions
    • Minstrel's Craft and the Immediacy of Audience
    • Historical Performance Revisited
    • Implications.
    ISBN
    • 9781843843238
    • 1843843234
    LCCN
    2011279636
    OCLC
    767566845
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