Description
Book SynopsisA collection of new translations into English and modern French of all the songs and motets ascribed to the medieval poet-composer Robert de Reims. Includes the original texts, the extant melodies, and a substantive introduction.
Trade Review“This edition provides a treasure trove of information on the songs and motets of Robert de Reims as well as the textual and cultural contexts in which they survive. The editors’ efforts provide tantalizing leads for further study.”
—Daniel E. O'Sullivan Textual Cultures
“This edition merits high praise. Its inclusion of Robert's music, its juxtaposition of the motets and chansons, and its French and English translations ensure its value to a wide audience. It is a beautifully clear, detailed, and thorough edition that will be useful to Anglo- and Francophone scholars of literature and music alike.”
—Anne Levitsky The Medieval Review
“Active at the turn of the thirteenth century, Robert de Reims is the first trouvère to be involved with both monodic and polyphonic compositions, which makes this new edition of his work highly useful. The volume gives a very complete survey of the corpus and its transmission, of Robert’s thematic choices and linguistic and versification options, as well as some elements concerning the analysis of the music.”
—Anne Ibos-Augé,author of Chanter et lire dans le récit médiéval
“As a composer of motets as well as monophonic songs, Robert de Reims is the first known trouvère to cross the boundaries between the monophonic and polyphonic repertoires. As such, his corpus serves as a touchstone for our understanding of the musical culture that shaped the trouvères’ predominantly monophonic musical language. The expert textual and musical transcriptions in this edition are enhanced by idiomatic and flowing translations into modern English and French.”
—Christopher Callahan,coeditor of Les chansons de Colin Muset: Textes et mélodies
“This edition, through its rigor and detailed content, proves indispensable to the medieval musicologists in search of studying, or discovering, the rich repertoire of Robert de Reims, an exceptional trouvère.”
—Kévin Roger Le Moyen Age
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Manuscripts Cited
Introduction
Robert de Reims, dit La Chievre: What We Know, What We Can Surmise
The Corpus and Its Manuscript Tradition
Thematic Content
Language
Versification: Strophic Structures, Rhyme, and Other Phonic Echoes
Music and Text in the Works of Robert de Reims
Editorial Policy for the Texts and Translations
Editorial Policy for the Music
Presentation of the Critical Apparatus
Tables
Notes
Songs and Motets
1. Bien s’est Amors honie — Chanson
2. Plaindre m’estuet de la bele en chantant — Chanson
3. Qui bien veut Amors descrivre — Chanson à refrain
4a. Quant voi le douz tens venir — Chanson avec des refrains
4b. Qant voi le douz tens venir / (immo)latus — Motet
5a. L’autrier de jouste un rivage — Pastourelle
5b. L’autrier de jouste un rivage / domino quoniam — Motet
6. Touse de vile champestre — Pastourelle
7a. Quant fueillissent li buison — Chanson avec des refrains
7b. Quant florissent li buisson / domino quoniam — Motet
8a. Main s’est levee Aëliz — Chanson de rencontre
8b. Main s’est levee Aëlis / (mansuetudi)nem — Motet
9. Ja mais, por tant con l’ame el cors me bate — Sotte chanson contre Amours
Bibliography
Index of First Lines
