Singing from manuscripts? Fifteenth-Century, English, secular songs with music and their reading practices

This essay explores the reading practices associated with fifteenth-century manuscripts containing English, secular songs with music, of which only two such manuscripts survive. It addresses the claim that the primary mode of reading was one in which readers sang directly from the manuscripts themse...

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Main Author: Glover, T
Format: Journal article
Published: Durham University Department of English Studies 2017