Courtly and Popular Poetry

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The paper presents a report on the chapter "Courtly and Popular Poetry" in "A Floretine Chansonnier: Text Volume" by Howard Mayer Brown. The paper describes how Brown writes about lyric poetry and gives insight into the ideas brought about by poetry through a specific Florentine Chansonnier: the Florrence 229. The writer asserts that Brown does an excellent job of addressing the main points he wants to make about courtly and popular poetry.

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"The author of A Floretine Chansonnier: Text Volume, Howard Mayer Brown was a very famous editor and musicologist that lived from 1930 to 1993. Brown was most famous for being a world renown scholar of western music history. During his life Brown taught at many different universities and colleges including Wellesley College, University of Chicago, Cornell University, and King's College which is located in London. He also contributed many articles to the New Grove Music Dictionary of Music and Musicians."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, Howard Mayer: 'Chansonnier', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed [17 February 2008]), http://www.grovemusic.com

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