TY - BOOK AU - Epstein,Marcia J. TI - Prions en Chantant: Devotional Songs of the Trouvères T2 - Toronto Medieval Texts and Translations SN - 9780802078261 AV - M2110 .P89 1997eb U1 - 783.6 22 PY - 1997///] CY - Toronto : PB - University of Toronto Press, KW - Sacred songs, Unaccompanied KW - 500-1400 KW - Sacred vocal music KW - France KW - Songs, Old French KW - Trouvère songs KW - HISTORY / Medieval KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access N2 - The rich medieval French tradition of vernacular devotional songs has not received much scrutiny. With Prions en chantant, Marcia Epstein aims to remedy that situation by offering an edition of largely anonymous trouvère devotional songs, designed for both scholars and performers, from two late-thirteenth-century manuscripts. The majority of the music is published here for the first time. Sixty-one songs are presented, with forty-nine songs exhibited in Old French with a facing-page modern English translation followed by old musical notation and facing-page with modern musical transcription. An additional twelve songs, which lack music in the original sources, are represented by the Old French text and the modern English translation only. The introduction extensively describes the social, musical, literary and theological aspects of the trouvère songs contained in the volume. This is a valuable and welcome addition to the study of medieval music UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442659957 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442659957/original ER -