Mary Channen Caldwell

Devotional Refrains in Medieval Latin Song

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at musicologists, medievalists, religious studies scholars and general readers interested in early music, this book reveals the importance of Latin refrains in the lives of religious communities in the European Middle Ages. Chapters focus on song and the negotiation of temporalities, performance, communal identity, memory and multilingualism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009044004
• ISBN-10: 1009044001
• Artikelnr.: 70678726

Autorenporträt

Mary Channen Caldwell is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research, which focuses on medieval song, liturgy, pedagogy, and intertextuality, has been published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Plainsong & Medieval Music, and Early Music History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Latin song and refrain
1. Latin song and refrain in the medieval year
2. Refrains and the time of song: Singing religious narratives
3. Singing the refrain: Shaping performance and community through form
4. Remembering refrains: Composition, inscription, and performance
5. Retexting refrains: Latin and vernacular refrains in contact
6. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.