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Jane Alden Songs, Scribes, and Society (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Songs, Scribes, and Society
- Title
- Songs, Scribes, and Society
- Subtitle
- The History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers
- ISBN-10
- 0195381521
- EAN
- 9780195381528
- ISBN
- 9780195381528
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- History
- Release Year
- 2011
- Release Date
- 27/01/2011
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
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A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre. The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such rewned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busys. But their importance as musical sources has overshadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right. This book places the physical objects at center, investigating the means by which they were produced and the broader culture in which they circulated. Jane Alden performs a codicological autopsy upon the manuscripts and reveals the hitherto unrecognized role of scribes in shaping the transmission and reception of the chanson repertory. Alden also challenges the long-held belief that the Loire Valley Chansonniers were intended for royal or ble patrons. Instead, she argues that a rising class of bureaucrats-taries, secretaries, and other court officials-commissioned these exquisite objects. Active as writers and participants in poetry competitions, these individuals may even have written some of the chansons' texts. The unique integration of image, text, and music found in chansonniers extends their appeal to a broad readership. But for the nineteenth-century scholars who rediscovered these manuscripts, the larger literary and visual resonances were t of primary interest. Alden documents the tangle of motivations-national identity, populist politics, and the rise of the musical masterwork-that informed the earliest writings on these books. Only w is their multifaceted structure the inspiration for a new generation of readers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-10
0195381521
ISBN-13
9780195381528
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106579566
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Publication Name
Songs, Scribes, and Society : the History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Music & Dance
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music
Series
New Cultural History of Music Ser.
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
6.2 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Height
236mm
Width
163mm
Weight
550g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication
27/01/2011
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Place of Publication
New York
Spine
26mm
Series Title
The New Cultural History of Music Series
Genre
Music & Dance
Country of Publication
United States
Content Note
49 Illustrations, 10 Music Examples, 8 Tables
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