Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-42968-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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.

Contributors are David Catalunya, Lisa Colton, Helen Dell, Annemari Ferreira, Rachel Golden, Gillian L. Gower, Anna Kathryn Grau, Carissa M. Harris, Louise McInnes, Lisa Nielson, Lauren Purcell-Joiner, Megan Quinlan, Leah Stuttard, Claire Taylor Jones, Melissa Tu, Angelica Vomera, and Anne Bagnall Yardley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Grau, Anna Kathryn

Colton, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures, Tables and Music Examples

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Female Authorship, Female Voice, and Female-Voice Song

Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton

PART 1: Ritual Discourse

1 The Feminine Voice in the Early Islamicate Courts (661–1000)

Lisa Nielson

2 Music, Liturgy, and the Discursive Construction of Gender in a Thirteenth-Century Double Monastery

Lauren Purcell-Joiner

3 A Female-Voice Ceremonial from Medieval Castile

David Catalunya

4 Religious Reform and Liturgical Change in the Fifteenth Century: Chant as Women’s Protest Music

Claire Taylor Jones

PART 2: Materiality

5 Beyond this Mist: Uncovering Material Multiplicities in Amis, amis

Rachel May Golden

6 Transmission of Female-Voice Motets in Late Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts

Anna Kathryn Grau

7 Chants for the Holy Trinity of Barking Abbey: Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild

Anne Bagnall Yardley

PART 3: Subjectivity and Emotion

8 Handmade Women: The Manufacture of Femininity in the Chansons de femme

Helen Dell

9 The Voice of Emotion: Constructing an Identity for the Comtessa de Dia in Performance

Leah Stuttard

10 “Going all the Way with Marot”: Empowerment in the Pastourelle Motet L’autrier m’esbatoie/Demenant grant joie/MANERE

Lisa Colton

11 Sexuality, Pedagogy, and Women’s Emotions in Middle English Songs

Carissa M. Harris

12 “Who cannot wepe come lerne at me”: Voicing Refrains in Late Medieval Passion Lyric

Melissa Tu

PART 4: Representation

13 A Song from the Mound: The Female Voice as a Repository for Genealogical Knowledge in Hyndluljóð

Annemari Ferreira

14 Eye, Mouth, and Heart: The Female-Voiced Contrafacta of Can vei la lauzeta mover

Meghan Quinlan

15 A Musical Letter from Eleanor of Provence to Margaret of Scotland: Patronage as Authorship in the Sequence Ex te lux oritur

Gillian L. Gower

16 Female Voice in the Trecento Song

Angelica Vomera

17 Saints and Sinners: The Representation of Women in Late-Medieval English Carols

Louise McInnes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Kathryn Grau is lecturer and Music & Performing Art Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her published work includes research on gendered voices within Old French motets, it has appeared in Gender & Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song (ed. Katherine Kong and Rachel Golden, University Press of Florida, 2021).

Lisa Colton is Professor of Musicology at the University of Huddersfield. Her publications include Angel Song: Medieval English Music in History (Routledge, 2017) and the co-edited book Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022).