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"This collection of seventeen essays newly identifies contributions to musical culture made by women before 1500 across Europe. You will learn about repertoire from such diverse locations as Iceland, Spain, and Italy, and encounter examples of musicianship from the gender-fluid professional musicians at the Islamicate courts of Syria to the nuns of Barking Abbey in England. The book shows that women drove musical patronage, dissemination, composition, and performance, including within secular and ecclesiastical contexts, and also reflects on the reception of medieval women's musical agency by both medieval poets and by modern recording artists"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Female authorship, female voice, and female-voice / Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton
• Part 1, Ritual discourse. The feminine voice in the early Islamicate courts (661-1000) / Lisa Nielson
• Music, liturgy, and the discursive construction of gender in a thirteenth-century double monastery / Lauren Purcell-Joiner
• A female-voice ceremonial from medieval Castile / David Catalunya
• Religious reform and liturgical change in the fifteenth century : chant as women's protest music / Claire Taylor Jones
• Part 2, Materiality. Beyond this mist : uncovering material multiplicities in Amis, amis / Rachel May Golden
• Transmission of female-voice motets in late thirteenth-century manuscripts / Anna Kathryn Grau
• Chants for the Holy Trinity of Barking Abbey : Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild / Anne Bagnall Yardley
• Part 3, Subjectivity and emotion. Handmade women : the manufacture of femininity in the Chansons de femme / Helen Dell
• The voice of emotion : constructing an identity for the Comtessa de Dia in performance / Leah Stuttard
• "Going all the way with Marot" : empowerment in the pastourelle motet L'autrier m'esbatoie/Demenant grant joie/MANERE / Lisa Colton
• Sexuality, pedagogy, and women's emotions in Middle English songs / Carissa M. Harris
• "Who cannot wepe come lerne at me" : voicing refrains in late medieval passion lyric / Melissa Tu
• Part 4, Representation. A song from the mound : the female voice as a repository for genealogical knowledge in Hyndluljóð / Annemari Ferreira
• Eye, mouth, and heart : the female-voiced contrafacta of Can vei la lauzeta mover / Meghan Quinlan
• A musical letter from Eleanor of Provence to Margaret of Scotland : patronage as authorship in the sequence Ex te lux oritur / Gillian L. Gower

• Female voice in the trecento song / Angelica Vomera
• Saints and sinners : the representation of women in late-medieval English carols / Louise McInnes.

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Contributors:

Grau, Anna Kathryn , editor

Colton, Lisa , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Female-voice song and women's musical agency in the middle ages (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 — ISBN 9789004517035; LCCN 2022027002)

Related Series:

Brill's companions to the musical culture of medieval and early modern Europe; v. 5

Alternate Titles:

Cover title: Companion to female-voice song and women's agency in the Middle Ages

Subjects:

Vocal music — 500-1400 — History and criticism

Church music — 500-1400

Women singers

Women musicians

Sex role in music

500-1400

Church music

Vocal music

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xv, 510 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

illustration; music

Call Numbers:

ML1402 .F46 2022

ISBNs:

9789004429680 (hardcover)
9004429689 (hardcover)
9789004517035 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022027001

OCLC Numbers:

1303079937