TheMunich Texts and Studies on German Medieval Literature (MTU), published by Max Niemeyer from Volume 102 onwards, provide access to texts, materials and genre which have hitherto not been available or easily accessible. Besides courtly poetry and heroic epics and song poetry from the High and Late Middle Ages, the series principally presents sacred and profane prose writings, from theological tracts via mysticism to plays and non-fiction works from everyday life in the Middle Ages. The selections of works to be published is undertaken by an international board of medievalists from various disciplines.

The collection of essays, “Ieglicher sang sein eigen ticht”, is the result of a symposium at the monastery Neustift near Brixen, where germanists and musicologists talked about song in the late Middle Ages. The interdisciplinary focus is reflected by this publication: Ten scholars risk plumbing the depths of the relationship of music and text on a new basis. Fields of interest are the transmission in manuscript sources as well as aesthetics of imitation and plagiarism in the late Middle Ages and methodological consequences resulting from this interdisciplinary approach.