An Introduction to Medieval Music
On this recording, Linda Marie Zaerr and Joseph A. Baldassarre sing and play on a wide variety of authentic instruments from the medieval and early Renaissance period. The music and poetry of various European countries are represented in this recording.
Cleanness
The Gawain-poet's most biblically inspired work, featuring prophets and holy men and women of cleanness from both the Old and New Testaments as major players in this full text of the poem on two CDs.
Patience
One of the four works by the so-called Gawain- or Pearl-poet on the subject of Christian patience.
Pearl
The poet's dead two-year-old daughter comes to him in a dream vision, showing him the way to the Heavenly Jerusalem, though he must die later in order to be able to cross over the river dividing this world from the world hereafter. She is his Pearl.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The perfect knight, Sir Gawain, certainly stands head and shoulders above the fallen round table of Camelot. But even he will have his comeuppance when he meets the beautiful unnamed wife of Lord Bertilak.
The Poetics of Alliteration
Recording of all the alliterative poetic passages Alan Gaylord discussed in his expansion of a plenary address given at a SEMA annual conference in 1998. Range from Old English to Modern English examples.
The Poetics of Alliteration
The CD has Alan Gaylord's readings of the various texts he chose for examples of alliteration, ancient and modern, in his plenary address at a SEMA conference.The monograph accompanying the CD is an expansion of that plenary address.
The Poetics of Alliteration
The monograph is an expansion of a plenary address that Alan T. Gaylord read at a SEMA annual conference in 1998. The book covers alliterative poetry from the Old English poetic canon right down to modern examples.