Author Description

<p>Introduction<br /> <br /> Program from ACTA 17 Concert<br /> <br /> 1. Ars Musica as Ars Cantica in a Twelfth-Century Prose<br /> Charles M. Atkinson, Ohio State University<br /> <br /> 2. "Chantword Indexes": A Tool for Plainsong Research<br /> Andrew Hughes, University of Toronto<br /> <br /> 3. "The Voice and the Letter": On Singing in the Vernacular<br /> Margaret Switten, Mount Holyoke College<br /> <br /> 4. "Juan Ruiz' Oral Performance as Minstrel": the Poet-Singer in Fourteenth-Century Spain<br /> Roberto J. González-Casanovas, The Catholic University of America<br /> <br /> 5. Reading Composers Reading<br /> Don M. Randel, Cornell University<br /> <br /> 6. English Poetry and the Expansion of the Concept of Song in the Fifteenth-Century<br /> Edith Borroff, Binghamton University<br /> <br /> 7. "John Bennet and the Directional Convention": An Introduction to Madrigalism<br /> Irving Godt, Indiana University of Pennsylvania</p>