The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry

Author / Editor
Baltzer, Rebecca A., Thomas Cable, and James I Wimsatt, eds.

Title
The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry

Published
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Physical Description
vii, 157 pp.

Description
Five essays, and introduction, and a commentary on accompanying musical selections survey the interdependence of music and poetry in Provencal and medieval French and English: in the troubadour tradition, Old English poetry, French "formes fixes," and the works of Machaut and Chaucer. Accompanying cassette (thirteen selections) recorded by Sequentia.

Contributor
Cable, Thomas., ed.
Wimsatt, James I., ed.
Sequentia.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.