Extreme vocality and the boundaries of song in the medieval crusades
Scant information survives about the performance practices for Old French song. One passage of text relates the performance of a crusade song in a manner described as “en haut.” This article argues that the phrase “en haut” refers to an extreme mode of vocalisation that blurred the boundaries betwee...
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University of California Press
2024
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