Music & Song

(Chaucer Studies I), b&w photo illustrations from illuminated manuscripts and music manuscripts, musical notation, bibliography, notes and index of composers, xiv & 174 pp, brown boards in d/w, slight marking to top edge of closed pages, otherwise very good, D.S. Brewer (Cambridge) 1979

27.7 x 20.7 cm, 810g, ISBN 0 85991 052 0

Explores the relationship between music and literature in the 14th century, with specific reference to Chaucer’s shorter poems, many of which were based on French models which belonged to a well-established musical tradition.  See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

Still available, but only in paperback, at £25.00.