...a valuable starting point for general study...her written style is clear and...the book can be read gainfully by non-musicians...In general, the analyses are excellent: detailed, revealing, and lucidly expressed...This book deserves to be widely read.

• 1. The grand chant of the trouveres: an Introduction ; 2. The Manuscript Tradition: Sources and Notation ; 3. The Melodic Art of the Trouveres: Orality and the Question of Melodic Variants ; 4. The Lyric Art of the Trouveres: The Counrtly chansons of Gautier de Dargies ; 5. The Later Trouvere Tradition: Continuation and Innovation ; 6. The Interaction of Oral, Written, and Literate Processes

...a valuable starting point for general study...her written style is clear and...the book can be read gainfully by non-musicians...In general, the analyses are excellent: detailed, revealing, and lucidly expressed...This book deserves to be widely read.

• 1. The grand chant of the trouveres: an Introduction ; 2. The Manuscript Tradition: Sources and Notation ; 3. The Melodic Art of the Trouveres: Orality and the Question of Melodic Variants ; 4. The Lyric Art of the Trouveres: The Counrtly chansons of Gautier de Dargies ; 5. The Later Trouvere Tradition: Continuation and Innovation ; 6. The Interaction of Oral, Written, and Literate Processes

...a valuable starting point for general study...her written style is clear and...the book can be read gainfully by non-musicians...In general, the analyses are excellent: detailed, revealing, and lucidly expressed...This book deserves to be widely read.

• 1. The grand chant of the trouveres: an Introduction ; 2. The Manuscript Tradition: Sources and Notation ; 3. The Melodic Art of the Trouveres: Orality and the Question of Melodic Variants ; 4. The Lyric Art of the Trouveres: The Counrtly chansons of Gautier de Dargies ; 5. The Later Trouvere Tradition: Continuation and Innovation ; 6. The Interaction of Oral, Written, and Literate Processes