Table of Contents

Introduction

Program from ACTA 17 Concert

1. Ars Musica as Ars Cantica in a Twelfth-Century Prose
Charles M. Atkinson, Ohio State University

2. “Chantword Indexes”: A Tool for Plainsong Research
Andrew Hughes, University of Toronto

3. “The Voice and the Letter”: On Singing in the Vernacular
Margaret Switten, Mount Holyoke College

4. “Juan Ruiz’ Oral Performance as Minstrel”: the Poet-Singer in Fourteenth-Century Spain
Roberto J. González-Casanovas, The Catholic University of America

5. Reading Composers Reading
Don M. Randel, Cornell University

6. English Poetry and the Expansion of the Concept of Song in the Fifteenth-Century
Edith Borroff, Binghamton University

7. “John Bennet and the Directional Convention”: An Introduction to Madrigalism
Irving Godt, Indiana University of Pennsylvania