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currentmusicology-5092	Boynton, Susan	Review of O’Neill, Mary. 2006. Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvère Repertoire. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press	2007	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2662	130	53	O'Neill's study may not satisfy all expectations-at 226 pages including bibliography and indices, it is a slim volume for such a vast subject-but the analyses in Courtly Love Songs offer many insights into the structures and forms of trouvere song and provide ample material for further reflection. In the chapter entitled The grand chant of the Trouveres: An Introduction, O'Neill surveys the genre characteristics of trouvere song using a representative example by Gace Brule (a trouvere active at several French courts in the decades around 1200): N'est pas a soi qui aime coral­ ment:' In The Manuscript Tradition: Sources and Notation;' O'Neill divides the manuscripts into two chronological phases based on a taxonomy of their notation, while acknowledging that the phase two sources do not form a single cohesive group (38)-the periodization being necessarily loose because the individual manuscripts are difficult to date with precision (29).	cache/currentmusicology-5092.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5092.txt