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Investigate how non-liturgical thirteenth-century English songs were preserved, altered, and transmitted into the fourteenth-century liturgical manuscript known as the Dublin Troper.

February 1, 2017Early Music

Songs in circulation, texts in transmission: English sources and the Dublin Troper

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HDHelen DeemingUniversity of London SBSamantha BlickhanAdler Planetarium

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Manuscript analysis uncovers liturgical contrafact adaptations of thirteenth-century English songs in the Dublin Troper, highlighting cross-genre scribal transmission.

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Investigate how non-liturgical thirteenth-century English songs were preserved, altered, and transmitted into the fourteenth-century liturgical manuscript known as the Dublin Troper.
Surveyed approximately 125 surviving songs from 13th-century English miscellany manuscripts.
Identified concordances among 17 songs re-copied in the 14th-century Dublin Troper (Cambridge, University Library, Add. Ms. 710).
Conducted comparative musical and textual case studies of two songs to evaluate notation variants, textual substitution, and contrafact relationships.
Demonstrated that 17 songs originally preserved in English miscellanies recur in the liturgical Dublin Troper, establishing it as the primary witness to the extended transmission of this repertory.
Identified previously unrecognized contrafact relationships in two case-study songs that circulated with entirely new texts roughly one century after their initial composition.
Established that scribes adapted musical notation and textual framing to repurpose non-liturgical vernacular songs for formal liturgical environments.

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Deeming et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72bf3575498292b70bb42e https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cax003

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Manuscript analysis uncovers liturgical contrafact adaptations of thirteenth-century English songs in the Dublin Troper, highlighting cross-genre scribal transmission.

Songs in circulation, texts in transmission: English sources and the Dublin Troper

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Songs in circulation, texts in transmission: English sources and the Dublin Troper

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