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Performance and the Middle English Romance / Linda Marie Zaerr.
Author
Zaerr, Linda Marie
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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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Available Online
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
PR327 .Z347 2012
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Subject(s)
Romances, English
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Musical settings
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History and criticism
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Songs, English (Middle)
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History and criticism
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Minstrels
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England
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History
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To 1500
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Series
Studies in medieval romance ; v. 17.
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Studies in medieval romance
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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.
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ISBN
9781843843238
1843843234
LCCN
2011279636
OCLC
767566845
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