England
Peter M. Lefferts
English musical life in the Middle Ages is often treated standard textbook surveys as peripheral to that of France and Italy. This approach has several causes, but rooted especially musicology's preoccupation over past 150 years scholarship with medieval France. Noteworthy also this negligence pairing Italy late era emergence polyphonic refrain songs chief new arte facts secular high music culture 1300s, an attractive trend no contemporary English-language counterpart. Musicology's paradigmatic narrative entrance onto international stage, through its sacred music, once began story only second quarter fifteenth century.
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