The rich medieval French tradition of vernacular devotional songs has not received much scrutiny. With 'Prions en chantant', Marcia Epstein aims to remedy that situation by offering an edition of largely anonymous trouvEre devotional songs, designed for both scholars and performers, from two late-thirteenth-century manuscripts.
The majority of the music is published here for the first time. Sixty-one songs are presented, with forty-nine songs exhibited in Old French with a facing-page modern English translation followed by old musical notation and...
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The rich medieval French tradition of vernacular devotional songs has not received much scrutiny. With 'Prions en chantant'...
