Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16416; Sun, 11 Oct 98 11:43:35 EDT Received: from xkey.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17077; Sun, 11 Oct 98 11:43:35 EDT Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by xkey.com id IAA03421 for minstrel-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:26:55 -0700 Received: (from lindahl@localhost) by xkey.com id LAA03415; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 11:26:52 -0400 Message-Id: <199810111526.LAA03415@xkey.com> Subject: Re: minstrel: finding tunes to period songs(semi-long) To: mn13189@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 11:26:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Greg Lindahl" Cc: minstrel@pbm.com In-Reply-To: from "mn13189@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU" at Oct 11, 98 08:49:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 3548 Sender: owner-minstrel@rt.com Precedence: bulk > The music department at Mount Holyoke college produced a wonderful series > of tapes with medieval music. These tapes also included booklets with > extensive notes on the sources for the lyrics and music, as well as copies > of the lyrics and music themselves. I have their Middle English Lyric > tape, and their Trouvere tape. I have heard their tape of the Troubadours > and the Minnesingers as well. I don't know how many are in their > collection, but it might be worth asking them about. I don't have contact > information, unfortunately, but I am sure that they have a web site. Oddly enough, Margaret Switten recently wrote me to add that information to the music bibliography. The entire collection is $50. Her address is: The Medieval Lyric, Box 1974, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, mswitten@mtholyoke.edu. She's currently burning CDs; I just asked her when that would be done and how much it will cost. Here's the entire bibliography entry: Switten, Margaret and Howell Chickering, eds. The Medieval Lyric: Anthologies and Cassettes for Teaching. A Project Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mount Holyoke College. 3 Anthologies; Commentary Volume; 5 audio cassettes. South Hadley MA: Mount Holyoke College, 1988-9. Materials can be obtained by writing: The Medieval Lyric, Box 1974, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075 or by e-mail: mswitten@mtholyoke.edu.

EM: This one may be hard to find. A professor of mine (Dr. David Mycoff) had it, but he specializes in Medieval studies, so he can get weird things like this. It is basically a project done by Mount Holyoke College, consisting of a recording of several Middle English Lyrics, with an accompanying booklet with the songs, musical notes, and historical notes on the songs. An excellent sourse for anyone interested in Middle English music.

Margaret Switten adds:

Essays in the Commentary Volume are by Leo Treitler, Music, CUNY Graduate Center; Stephen G. Nichols, French, The Johns Hopkins University; Thomas Riis, music, the University of Colorado, and Margaret Switten. Anthology I contains monastic songs from the Saint Martial repertory plus troubadour and trouvere songs. Anthology II contains Machaut's _Remede de Fortune_ with all lyric insertions. Anthology III contains Medieval English Lyric. All Anthologies contain comments on individual songs: Monastic songs by Leo Treitler; troubadours, trouveres and Machaut by Margaret Switten; Medieval English by Howell Chickering.

Participating artists: Peter Becker, baritone; Mark Bleeke, tenor; Paul Hillier, baritone (who performs all the Medieval English songs); Laurie Monahan, soprano; William Sharp, baritone; Tina Chancey, rebec; Robert Eisenstein, vielle; Christopher Kendall, lute, mandora; Scott Reiss, recorders.

A full listing of the songs is in my _Music and Poetry in the Middle Ages: A Guide to Research on French and Occitan Song 1100-1400_ (NY and London, 1995). I have also recently collaborated on a Garland publication: _Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres: An Anthology of Poems and Melodies_, ed. Samuel N. Rosenberg, Margaret Switten and Gerard Le Vot, with accompanying Compact Disc (NY and London, 1998). The compact disc, _Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres: Music and Poetry from Medieval France_ Bard BDCD 1-9711 is available separately from most music stores (Tower surely) or on the web from the Folger Shakespeare Library: www.folger.edu.

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