A Late Medieval Songbook and its Context: New Perspectives on the Chantilly Codex (Bibliotheque du Chateau de Chantilly, Ms. 564)

by Plumley, Yolanda; Stone, Anne

• ISBN13: 9782503515984
• ISBN10: 2503515983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-30
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

Most of the essays collected in this volume had their origins in a conference entitled Nouveaux regards sur le manuscript 564 de Chantilly/New Perspectives on the Chantilly Codex held on 13-15 September 2001 in Tours, under the auspices of the Centre dEtudes Superieures de la Renaissance (Universite Francois Rabelais/Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique). The conference was the last in a series of meetings held that week marking the tenth anniversary of the musical research branch, Programme Ricercar. The idea to hold the conference had emerged in 1999 as we ourselves embarked on a collaborative project on this most fascinating of music sources from the late Middle Ages. Our own extended scrutiny of the codex and its contents, which has culminated in the publication of a detailed study and the first colour reproduction of the manuscript made us keenly aware of the significance of this source and its repertory to our understanding of the history of music before 1600. The Chantilly codex is beyond doubt one of the most important sources for late medieval secular polyphony.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Reading the Repertory. Virginia Newes, Deception, Reversal, and Paradox

The Rondeaux of the Chantilly Codex in Context

En relisant Solage

Dead Famous: Mourning, Machaut, Music, and Renown in the Chantilly Codex

Nouvelles lectures des chansons notees dans le codex Chantilly

Upton, Editing Chantilly Chansons: Scribal Procedures for Text Placement and Larger Questions of Musical Style

Reading the Notation

Criticism of Music and Music as Criticism in the Chantilly Codex

Between the Fig Tree and the Laurel: Or voit tout Revisited

The Interpretation of Unusual Mensuration Signs in the Ars subtilior

The Myth of tempus perfectum diminutum in the Chantilly Manuscript

Sources and Questions of Provenance

Diplomatic Relationships between the Chantilly Codex and Cividale Fragments?

French Songs in Aragon de Terence Scully revise

Flats and Chansons in MS Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Panciatichi 26

A New Source for the Polyphony of the Ars subtilior

Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, nouvelles acquisitions francaises 22069

Cordier's Picture-Songs and the Relationship between the Song Repertories of the Chantilly Codex and Oxford Manuscript

The Myth of Philipoctus de Caserta? Abbreviations

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