Grafting musicology and literary studies together in an unprecedented manner, Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut investigates the "courtly love" songs of the twelfth to late fourteenth centuries and explores the paradoxical relationship of music and self expression in the Middle Ages. While these love songs often conceive and express the autonomous subject - the lyric "I" represented by a single line of melody - they also engage highly con...

• About the Companion Website
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Abbreviations
• Map of Medieval France
• Introduction: Love, Self, and Song
• Chapter One: The Turn of the Voice
• Chapter Two: Delinquent Descorts and Medieval Lateness
• Chapter Three: Changing the Subject of the Chanson d'amour
• Chapter Four: The Hybrid Voice of Monophonic Motets
• Chapter Five: Machaut's Turn to Monophony
• Conclusion: Medieval Expressionism
• Bibliography
• Index of Songs and Motets
• Index