Transcribing and Composing a Modern Arrangement of “Byrd one brere”
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The oldest extant English love song remains as faded ink on warped manuscript paper kept in the King’s College Archives. A 14th-century scribe jotted down all the lyrics but did not bother to complete the music, leaving an entire staff blank.
Sick of Love: Poor Prospects for Love-Sick Men in Three Subversive Medieval Lyrics
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Three medieval love lyrics close to each other in a manuscript known as Harley 2253 seem utterly unrelated to each other, apart from their pessimism and their sheer idiosyncrasy.