ID - 112869382 TI - Devotional refrains in medieval Latin song PY - 2022 SN - 9781009043298 9781316517192 9781009044004 9781009050180 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Songs, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Sacred vocal music KW - Latin songs, Medieval and modern KW - History and criticism KW - Liturgical music KW - Pastoral music (Sacred) KW - Vocal music, Sacred KW - Sacred music KW - Vocal music KW - Christian spirituality KW - Music KW - Medieval Latin literature KW - anno 500-1499 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:112869382 AB - Throughout medieval Europe, male and female religious communities attached to churches, abbeys, and schools participated in devotional music making outside of the chanted liturgy. Newly collating over 400 songs from primary sources, this book reveals the role of Latin refrains and refrain songs in the musical lives of religious communities by employing novel interdisciplinary and analytical approaches to the study of medieval song. Through interpretive frameworks focused on time and temporality, performance, memory, inscription, and language, each chapter offers an original perspective on how refrains were created, transmitted, and performed. Arguing for the Latin refrain's significance as a marker of form and meaning, this book identifies it as a tool that communities used to negotiate their lived experiences of liturgical and calendrical time; to confirm their communal identity and belonging to song communities; and to navigate relationships between Latin and vernacular song and dance that emerge within their multilingual contexts. ER -