TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alden,Jane
TI  - Songs, scribes, and society: the history and reception of the Loire Valley chansonniers 
T2  - The new cultural history of music
SN  - 9780199700738
AV  - ML93 .A46 2010eb
U1  - 782.4/3094450262 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Music
KW  - Manuscripts
KW  - France
KW  - Loire River Valley
KW  - History
KW  - 15th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Songbooks, French
KW  - Polyphonic chansons
KW  - Musique
KW  - Manuscrits
KW  - Loire, Vallée de la
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 15e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Polyphonies françaises
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Instruction & Study
KW  - Voice
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Lyrics
KW  - Printed Music
KW  - Vocal
KW  - fast
KW  - Liederhandschrift
KW  - gnd
KW  - Chanson
KW  - Polyphonie
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Loire (Fluss)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-277) and index; Discovering chansonniers -- The material objects -- Chronology and dating revisited -- The makers of the Loire Valley -- Owners, readers, and bookish culture
N2  - "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, are the earliest surviving examples of this rare commodity. The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such renowned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. But their importance as musical sources has over-shadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right. Songs, Scribes, and Society focuses primarily on the chansonniers as physical objects, 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 noble patrons. Instead, she argues that a rising class of bureaucrats--notaries, 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. This book comes with an extensive companion Web site that includes color reproductions of the chansonniers themselves, bringing their unique integration of image, text, and music to a new generation of readers."--Publisher description
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