The Chaucer Songbook
- Author / Editor
- Wood, Carol Lloyd.
The Chaucer Songbook
- Published
- Pacific, Mo. : Mel Bay, 1998.
- Physical Description
- 117 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
- Description
- Commentary on and recording of the extant music mentioned in Chaucer, arranged for harp and voice and embellished with other instruments; also includes other medieval songs. The commentary describes fourteenth-century harps and harping. The recording includes "Angelus ad Virginem" (MilT), "Alma Redemptoris Mater" (PrT), "Sanctus," "Gloris," "Edi Be Thu," "Roundel of the Birds" (PF), "Ne Qu'on Porroit," "Gais et Jolis," "Ton y Brenhin," "Symlen Ben-bys," "Maid in the Moor," "Ich Am of Irlaunde," "My Lief Is Faren in a Londe," "I Have a Gentil Cock," "The Pear Tree," "King Orfeo," "Glenkindie," and "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" (WBT)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Recordings and Films.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Parliament of Fowls.