John Haines holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, where he is an Associate Professor cross-appointed at the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Faculty of Music. He has published on medieval music and its modern reception in many journals, from Romania and Scriptorium to Early Music History and Music and Letters. He is the author of Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères (Cambridge, 2004) and Satire in the Songs of Renart le nouvel (2009), and is the co-editor of Music and Medieval Manuscripts: Paleography and Performance (2004).

• Part I. Medieval Song in Romance Languages: 1. Song; 2. Lament; 3. Love song; 4. Epic song; 5. Devotional song; 6. Conclusion; Appendix. Medieval condemnations of dance songs; Bibliography; Manuscript sources; Part II. Songs with Musical Notation.

'This study seeks to shed light on a large body of female song in Vulgar Latin and early Romance languages from around 500 to 1200 CE. … This study will be valuable as a teaching resource. It provides useful surveys of scholarship and a coherent narrative for these songs. … will surely beckon further research on these bits of song in their manuscript context.' Karen L. Fresco, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)