TY - BOOK ID - 5534874 TI - Songbook : how lyrics became poetry in medieval Europe PY - 2012 SN - 1283542242 9786613854698 0226280527 9780226280523 9780226280516 0226280519 9780226270050 022627005X 9781283542241 6613854697 PB - Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Art and literature. KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval - Europe. KW - Lyric poetry - History and criticism. KW - Poetry, Medieval - History and criticism. KW - Songbooks - Europe. KW - Songbooks, Medieval - Europe. KW - Songbooks KW - Poetry, Medieval KW - Lyric poetry KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval KW - Art and literature KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Literature - General KW - History and criticism KW - Songbooks, Medieval KW - History and criticism. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Gedichten. KW - Gezangen. KW - Handschriften. KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. KW - Liederenbundels. KW - Lyric poetry. KW - Lyriek. KW - Middeleeuwen. KW - Poetry, Medieval. KW - Songbooks. KW - Literary. KW - Europa. KW - Europe. KW - Poésie médiévale KW - Poésie lyrique KW - Enluminure médiévale KW - Art et littérature KW - Histoire et critique KW - Literature and art KW - Literature and painting KW - Literature and sculpture KW - Painting and literature KW - Sculpture and literature KW - Aesthetics KW - Literature KW - Painting, Medieval KW - Songs KW - Arias KW - Ariettas KW - Art songs KW - Lieder KW - Solo songs KW - Solo vocal music, Secular KW - Songs with various acc. KW - Vocal music KW - Recorded accompaniments (Voice) KW - Art i literatura KW - lyrics, poetry, medieval, europe, collaboration, vernacular songbooks, 13th century, 14th, 15th, occitan, middle high german, castilian, oral performance, publication, audience, performers, musicians, preservation, folksong, folklore, folk music, literature, popular culture, bard, curation, archives, playlists, canon formation, carmina burana, libro de buen amor, coherence, cohesion, unity, collected works, cancioneros, art, illustrations, illuminations, nonfiction, history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5534874 AB - Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poetry was once communally produced and received-a collaboration of artists, performers, live audiences, and readers stretching across languages and societies. The only comparative study of its kind, Songbook treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category "poetry": that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself. Marisa Galvez analyzes the seminal songbooks representing the vernacular traditions of Occitan, Middle High German, and Castilian, and tracks the process by which the songbook emerged from the original performance contexts of oral publication, into a medium for preservation, and, finally, into an established literary object. Galvez reveals that songbooks-in ways that resonate with our modern practice of curated archives and playlists-contain lyric, music, images, and other nonlyric texts selected and ordered to reflect the local values and preferences of their readers. At a time when medievalists are reassessing the historical foundations of their field and especially the national literary canons established in the nineteenth century, a new examination of the songbook's role in several vernacular traditions is more relevant than ever. ER -