Words and Music in the Middle Ages: Song, Narrative, Dance and Drama, 1050-1350 Book

Part I. Number in Music and Verse:

1. The Courtly Chanson;
2. Latin Songs: Conductus and Cantio;
3. The Sequence;
4. Lai and Planctus;

Part II. Relations of Speech, Action, Emotion and Meaning:
5. The Dance Song;
6. Narrative Melody I: Epic and Chanson de Geste;
7. Narrative Melody II: Saint's Life and Liturgical narrative;
8. Speech and Melody: Gregorian Chant;
9. Drama I: Liturgy, Ceremony and Play;
10. Drama II: Music, Action and Emotion;
11. Music and Meaning: the Problem of Expressiveness;

Part III. Melody, Rhythm and Metre:
12. The Theorists;
13. Palaeography, Notion and Presentation;
14. Rhythm and Genre;
15. Works and Music a Balanced Relationship.