Edward Roesner is a medievalist working primarily with the music of the 12th, 13th, and early 14th centuries. After teaching at Indiana University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he joined the faculty at NYU in 1976 and has taught as a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. He has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, among other grants.

'...the introductions to each volume are excellent...' Early Music Review '...one of the best combinations of articles written in English..' The Medieval Review

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Polyphony at Notre Dame of Paris: Leoninus, poet and musician, Craig Wright; The origin and destination of the Magnus Liber Organi, Heinrich Husmann; The geography of the liturgy at Notre-Dame of Paris, Rebecca A. Baltzer. Part II Organum, Genre, Rhythm: Johannes de Garlandia on Organum in Speciale, Edward H. Roesner; The Copula according to Johannes de Garlandia, Jeremy Yudkin; Consonance and rhythm in the organum of the 12th and 13th centuries, Ernest H. Sanders; Who 'made' the Magnus Liber?, Edward H. Roesner; The Vatican organum treatise re-examined, Steven C. Immel; Interrelationships among the alleluias of the Magnus Liber Organi, Norman E. Smith; The abbreviation of the Magnus Liber, William G. Waite. Part III Conductus, Genre, Function, Rhythm: Musical declamation and poetic rhythm in an early layer of Notre Dame conductus, Janet Knapp; Conductus and modal rhythm, Ernest H. Sanders; Aurelianis civitas: student unrest in medieval France and a conductus by Philip the Chancellor, Thomas B. Payne. Part IV Motet, Chronology, Style: Aspects of trope in the earliest motets for the Assumption of the Virgin, Rebecca A. Baltzer; The question of Perotin's oeuvre and dates, Ernest H. Sanders; A small collection of Notre Dame motets ca. 1215-1235, Gordon A. Anderson; The rondeau motet: Paris and Artois in the 13th century, Mark Everist; Beyond glossing: the old made new in Mout me fu grief / Robin m'aime / Portare, Dolores Pesce; Index.

Edward Roesner is a medievalist working primarily with the music of the 12th, 13th, and early 14th centuries. After teaching at Indiana University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he joined the faculty at NYU in 1976 and has taught as a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, and Harvard. He has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, among other grants.

'...the introductions to each volume are excellent...' Early Music Review '...one of the best combinations of articles written in English..' The Medieval Review

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Polyphony at Notre Dame of Paris: Leoninus, poet and musician, Craig Wright; The origin and destination of the Magnus Liber Organi, Heinrich Husmann; The geography of the liturgy at Notre-Dame of Paris, Rebecca A. Baltzer. Part II Organum, Genre, Rhythm: Johannes de Garlandia on Organum in Speciale, Edward H. Roesner; The Copula according to Johannes de Garlandia, Jeremy Yudkin; Consonance and rhythm in the organum of the 12th and 13th centuries, Ernest H. Sanders; Who 'made' the Magnus Liber?, Edward H. Roesner; The Vatican organum treatise re-examined, Steven C. Immel; Interrelationships among the alleluias of the Magnus Liber Organi, Norman E. Smith; The abbreviation of the Magnus Liber, William G. Waite. Part III Conductus, Genre, Function, Rhythm: Musical declamation and poetic rhythm in an early layer of Notre Dame conductus, Janet Knapp; Conductus and modal rhythm, Ernest H. Sanders; Aurelianis civitas: student unrest in medieval France and a conductus by Philip the Chancellor, Thomas B. Payne. Part IV Motet, Chronology, Style: Aspects of trope in the earliest motets for the Assumption of the Virgin, Rebecca A. Baltzer; The question of Perotin's oeuvre and dates, Ernest H. Sanders; A small collection of Notre Dame motets ca. 1215-1235, Gordon A. Anderson; The rondeau motet: Paris and Artois in the 13th century, Mark Everist; Beyond glossing: the old made new in Mout me fu grief / Robin m'aime / Portare, Dolores Pesce; Index.