Over 100 years after the hitherto standard scholarly compilation of the secular lieder by the Monk of Salzburg, they are presented here in a new edition. It assembles the complete texts and melodies by this poet-composer of the late 14th century, supplementing them with scholarly annotations to aid understanding. The problematic relationship between corpus (notably the "Mondsee-Wiener Liederhandschrift") and oeuvre is discussed, the specific formal achievements of the author highlighted and all sources investigated, including some hitherto unknown.

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Christoph März was born in 1956. He studied German language and literature, musicology and Latin. He was an academic assistent at Erlangen University and was granted a Heisenberg Fellowship afterwards. He worked as a lecturer at Leipzig University, and in 2002, he became Professor for Medieval German Literature and Language at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He died prematurely on November 9th 2006. His publications include studies on comparative musicology and philology, medieval poetry and literature in the early Middle Ages.