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A Catalogue and Bibliography of English Song From Its Beginnings to c1300

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Christopher Page
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This catalogue lists all the twelfth- and thirteenth-century songs with English words known to exist, and is designed to be of interest to the transcriber, performer and general student of medieval English music. Although there are only nineteen items surviving from the period in question a number have never been published either in facsimile or transcription. A forthcoming appendix to this catalogue will include facsimiles of previously unpublished manuscripts to encourage work on new transcriptions and scrutiny of available ones. It is to be hoped that musicians who have already given much attention to the thirteenth-century repertoires of France and Spain will begin to perform these first English songs more frequently.

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R.M.A. Research Chronicle , Volume 13 , 1976 , pp. 67 - 83
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1976

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