Chaucer's Songs

Author / Editor
Wilkins, Nigel.

Title
Chaucer's Songs

Published
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1980.

Physical Description
29 pp.

Description
A companion volume to "Music in the Age of Chaucer." Fourteen of Chaucer's lyrics on the French model are presented in a performing edition with musical settings derived from contemporary songs by Machaut, Senleches, Solange, Andrieu, and the French-Cypriot repertory.
The main justification for this exercise in "contrafactum" is Chaucer's observation in the PF that the musical setting for the roundel of the birds "maked was in France"; further strong links between Chaucer's lyrics and the French musical and poetic background are established.

Chaucer Subjects
Lyrics and Short Poems.