Self-reflexive songs and their readers in the late fourteenth century - May 2003
In the May 2003 issue of Early Music (pp.180-194), Anne Stone's article 'Self-reflexive songs and their readers in the late fourteenth century' considers how the act of reading a complex song from the notated page of a manuscript may give rise to an understanding of it that is quite different from that of a listener who can hear but not see it. Her principal example is the anonymous rondeau Se je perdu (found uniquely in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canonici misc. 213), which is reproduced both in facsimile and in partial transcription.
By clicking on the links below, you can hear performances of the seven examples that are variously notated, discussed and reproduced her article. The recordings were specially made for this website by the Orlando Consort, and were funded in part by the Arts Faculty, University College Cork.
- Soundclip 1: Anon., Se j'ay perdu, refrain [1,118KB]
- Soundclip 2: Se j'ay perdu, tenor, opening [546KB]
- Soundclip 3: Se j'ay perdu, tenor, opening [226KB]
- Soundclip 4: Se j'ay perdu, contratenor, opening [379KB]
- Soundclip 5: Se j'ay perdu, contratenor, opening [201KB]
- Soundclip 6: Se j'ay perdu, cantus, opening [377KB]
- Soundclip 7: Se j'ay perdu, cantus, opening [223KB]
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