"Introduction Latin Song and Refrain Within medieval Latin song, the refrain is a unit of text and music that repeats regularly in the course of an individual song. The refrain represents a moment of return, repetition, and remembering, the "re-" prefix signaling its functional and structural identity: the Latin refrain always repeats. The songs in which refrains appear typically feature rhymed, rhythmic, and largely devotional, yet generally non-liturgical, Latin poetry; songs are set to music for one or more voices, copied in manuscript sources beginning in the twelfth century, and transmitted as late as the sixteenth century in printed song anthologies. Identified as conductus, versus, cantilena, cantio, prosa, planctus, and rondellus, among other labels in the Middle Ages and contemporary scholarship, medieval Latin songs easily number over one thousand, transmitted in hundreds of manuscript sources throughout Europe"--
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