Thematic catalogue of troubadour and trouvère melodies / by Donna Mayer-Martin with Dorothy Keyser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayer-Martin, Donna J. (Donna Jean)

Contributor:

Keyser, Dorothy.

Series:

Thematic catalogues ; no. 18.

Thematic catalogues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Troubadour songs--Thematic catalogs.

Troubadour songs.

Trouvère songs--Thematic catalogs.

Trouvère songs.

Music--Manuscripts--Thematic catalogs.

Music.

Music--Manuscripts.

Genre:

Thematic catalogs (Music)

Thematic catalogs.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 739 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, [2011]

Summary:

After a long career involved with medieval song (Southern Methodist University) in which she undertook transcription and documentation of roughly 4,500 melodies, Mayer-Martin died in 2009, before completion of her goal of sorting and cataloguing melodies based on their incipits. Fortunately, she had a partner in the endeavor. Dorothy Keyser joined the project in 1994, and began creating a digital database, inputting the melodies as a series of intervals expressed in semitones. This catalogue is the result of their combined efforts. The indexing and cross referencing are extraordinary, offering an important resource for scholars and performers working with the medieval monophonic lyric and related polyphonic repertoires. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780918728821

0918728827

OCLC:

688643172