I was delighted to discover today when searching for a link to this volume to email to a colleague that an edited collection from 2017 is now available in its entirety for free download!
Prof. Chaguinian kindly invited me, and several other scholars, to participate first in a panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and then to submit a chapter for this volume that aims to contextualize the Jeu d’Adam within its broader cultural, codicological, and musical contexts. It can be a hard volume to find in some libraries, especially in Europe, so I’m very happy it’s available now to download!
My own chapter is titled "'Pax Gallie’: The Songs of Tours 927" and focuses on the series of Latin songs in the first part of the manuscript.
Here’s the abstract!
“The manuscript Tours 927 (Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 927), in addition to containing the Jeu d'Adam, a Latin Easter play, and other textual items, preserves in its initial folios an unusual collection of sacred Latin songs. This collection includes 31 Latin refrain songs, an antiphon, two polyphonic sequences, and a moralizing conductus attributed to Philippe le Chancelier. Argument is made for the significance of the musical contents of Tours 927 and a more nuanced understanding of its origins, bringing into sharper focus the cultural, musical, and devotional backdrop of the manuscript by way of its lyrical and melodic content.”