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Other_____________________________________________________________________ University Microfilms International SIR WALTER SCOTT'S CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE lATH CENTURY MINSTREL: THE USE OF IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE IN MUSICAL RESEARCH DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Suzanne Aleta Fisher, A.B., M.A. The Ohio State University 1983 Reading Committe Approved By Dr* William Poland Dr* Burdette Green Dr. John Champlin Adviser School of Musio ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have been fortunate throughout my graduate studies to have been guided and supported by professors who can be described only as the cr&me de la crfeme. Brief acknowledg­ ments cannot convey the gratitude I owe each of these distinctive scholars and teachers. Bearing that in mind, let me simply offer my heartfelt thanks to: Dr. Norman Phelps, who supported and encouraged interdisciplinary pursuits from the earliest days of my doctoral program and who was a guiding force toward this dissertation; Dr. Robert Bremner, who made valuable contributions through his participation in both oral examinations of the doctoral program, and whose words form one of the foundations of this dissertation; Dr. John Champlin, political scientist and musician, too, whose versatility and unflagging interest in my ideas and progress have been an inspiration; Dr. Burdette Green, with whom I worked most closely on the dissertation, whose eminence as a scholar is matched only by his exceptional talent for keeping the fire of enthusiasm burning; And Dr. William Poland, my adviser, who instilled in me the courage to communicate and develop my ideas to the fullest. To all these champions of liberal scholarship — many thanks. ii VITA April 7t 19^9..... Born - Washington, Pennsylvania 1971............... A. B., Vassar College 1973* .......... M. A*, The Ohio State University PUBLICATIONS "Aspects of the Development of Copyright Thought: An Interpretation of Actions and Reaotions in the Case of Adrian Willaert's Verbum bonum et suave*" Journal of the Graduate Music Students at The Ohio State University, Spring, 1975• FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: Music Studies in Music Theory. Professors William Poland and Norman Phelps Studies in Political Theory. Professor John Champlin Studies in Music History. Professor Richard Hoppin iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......... ii VITA................................................ ill LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS............................... vi INTRODUCTION...................... 1 Chapter I. GOALS AND LIMITATIONS......... 3 II. THE INTELLECTUAL TRENDS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND SCOTT'S EARLY LIFE.............. 22 Introduction................. 22 The Enlightenment............ 23 Scott's Early Life........ 30 III. THE MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER: THE FOUNDATION OF SCOTT'S POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORICAL AND MUSICOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP.. 36 Scott's Historical Scholarship in the . 1802-03 Introduction to the Minstrelsy.. 38 The Ballad Auld Maitland and Scott's Commentary On It................. ..... 31 The 1830 "Introductory Remarks..." to the Minstrelsy; Scott as a Historian and Sociologist of Poetry and Music and as an Active Participant in the Community of Ballad Scholars........... 66 Scott's Position in the History of Musical Research. ............. 8l iv TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONTINUED IV. BALLAD SCHOLAHSHIP AND CREATIVE WRITIN0 UNITED IN THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL...... 83 The Minstrel'b Tale.................... 86 The Minstrel*s Image........ 99 V. ASSESSMENTS OF SCOTT * S IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE 108 VI. FOURTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH MINSTRELS IN MENESTRELLORUM MULTITUDO.................... 114 Anglo-Scottish History — c. 1500...... 114 Constance Bullock-Davies' Menestrellorum Multitudot Scholarship on the Medieval Minstrel......... ISO On Individual Minstrels.......... 126 VII. THE MINSTREL IN CASTLE DANGEROUS............ 134 The Minstrel Bertram in Castle Dangerous 142 Bertram's Tales ....... 157 VIII. CONCLUSION. THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCOTT'S IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE TO KNOWLEDGE OF THE MEDIEVAL MINSTREL............................ 168 BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................. 177 v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Illustration 1* Baptie's Entry on Scott.......................... 5 2# The Tune of the Ballad Thomas the Rhymer.......167 vi INTRODUCTION The joining of musical and literary scholarship in my field of interests produced its first formal offspring with an interpretation of popular political perceptions, expressed In selected texts from the musical interpolations to Le Roman de Fauvel, during the reign of Philip IV of France. Awhile later, when I was attempting to understand the role and status of music and musicians in modern life and contemplating a utopian situation in which musical scholars (as well as other artists and humanists) would have a strong shaping influence on the ideology of a nation, I found in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game expressions of related thoughts ~ ideas that are very powerful when "focused" through imaginative literature but that are very difficult to convey in the form of pure theory within the bounds of scholarship. As time went on, I developed an interest in scholarly studies of musical subjects in literature. This type of study is often conducted by the literary specialist who is interested in music as an ingredient of literature and who wants to see how music makes the literary work. 1 2 For the specialist in music, literature provides a view of how fiction makes music and musicians. In the field of music, imaginative literature makes two important and interrelated offerings: images of the profession and all matters related to it, and, most importantly, the oppor­ tunity to judiciously use the special kind of knowledge derivable from these images to enhance the understanding of musical subjects. The use of fiction in musical research is especially valuable in cases where the literary imagination has produced what can be gained only with the greatest difficulty through traditional scholarship alone. I hope that this study about Sir Walter Scott and his contribution to knowledge of the medieval minstrel
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