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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      08 July 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511481819
      9780521826723
      9780521108140
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481819
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 360 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 360 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Performance
      Series:
      Musical Performance and Reception
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Performance
    Series:
    Musical Performance and Reception
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    This 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. Important stages include sixteenth-century antiquarianism, the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm. More often than now, writers and performers have negotiated a compromise between historical research and a more imaginative approach to envisioning the music of troubadours and trouveres. This book points not so much to a resurrection of medieval music in modern times as to a continuous tradition of interpreting these songs over eight centuries.

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    "This volume provides an interesting examination of the repertory of troubadour and trouvère music. The author's final conclusions and discussions of modern-day appearances of this repertory are especially enjoyable. Highly recommended." B.L. Eden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, CHOICE

    "John Haines' book tackles several large tasks: expounding the historiography of a musical repertoire; dilineating and contextualizing their reception; and illuminating the epistemological pitfalls for the curren scholar who studies them." - Elizabeth Aubrey, University of Iowa

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