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Performance descriptors:

• animals
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• costumes
• dance
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• instruments
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• performers, multiple
• performers, solo
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• song
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Musical instruments:

• aerophones
• chordophones
• idiophones
• mechanical & electrical
• membranophones
• multiple instruments
• recorded music
• without musical accompaniment

Performer categories:

• academic & professional
• academic/teacher
• professional performer
• student/alumni
• other

Name of performers/ensemble:

• Abd aj-Jalil Ali, Awadallah
• Abourizk, Michael
• Alvarez, Andrea
• Bagby, Benjamin
• Bates, Ryan
• Bazarov, Jumabay
• Becker, Peter
• Benko, Julie
• Benzaken, Danielle
• Bernstein, Catesby
• Beyer, Elyse
• Bjornsti, Karen
• Bleeke, Mark
• Blyweiss, Jessica Bay
• Boyle, Giarcarla
• Brodsky, Jordan
• Broman, Brad
• Brown, Tiffany
• Burt, Vanessa
• Butnik, Brian
• Caliendo, Kevin
• Cantave, Stephane
• Carei, Jessica
• Carlton, Abigail Blythe
• Carr, Bailey
• Cerino, Stephanie
• Chavez, George
• Chazelle, Anna
• Chianesi, Chris
• Chilana, Meetinder
• Collett, Mark
• Cook, Ron
• Couvillion, Adriene
• Cramer, Emily
• Cristi, Andrew
• Dalton, Alexandra
• Davis-Dyer, Diana
• Dialogos
• DiConcetto, Andrew
• Diker, Tacettin
• Dotson, Christina Norman
• Duda, Emily
• Durrett, Kara
• Dutton, Elisabeth
• Elliott, Andrew
• Emerson, Aleka
• Erenberger, Sam
• Espinosa, Amanda
• Esposito, Joe
• Fair, Justin
• Fithian, Zach
• Folan, Andrea
• Funaro, Jeff
• Gallas, Sydney
• Gargan, Amy
• Gassert, Katie
• Germain, Kelly
• Giancola, Eric
• Goldstein, Holly
• Goodman, Brandon
• Green, Lee
• Greenberg, Rebecca
• Guadagnino, Gina
• Guillett, Amanda
• Hambel, Kristin
• Haskell, Mary Lane
• Heinlein, Kurt
• Hernandez, Michelle
• Holtslaw, Brittany
• Houlihan, Kelly
• Hubshman, Samantha
• Hughes, Laura
• Hughes, Tim
• Huiett, Erin
• Hydock, Dolores
• Imbrogno, Zack
• Jarrell, Julian
• Jefferson, Rebeca
• Johnson, Ellie
• Johnston, Leah
• Jones, Adam
• Jones, Leigh
• Jones, Julia
• Jordan, Jenn
• Joy, Ruby
• Kahrl, Andrew
• Kaplan, Benjamin
• Karger, Jillian
• Kass, Kim
• Keating, Kat
• Kocher, Nick
• Kramida, Xenia
• Kummer, Eberhard
• LaBella, Wendy
• Lamoreaux, Rosa
• LaRosa, James
• Larsen, Kelsey
• Leonard, Emily
• Levine, Jes
• Levy, David
• Levy, Lynne
• Lim, Hyeji
• Livljanic, Katarina
• Login, Jenni
• Long, Lisa
• Long, Andrew
• Lupp, Marissa
• Mackey, James
• Maher, Zachary
• Martinson, Kimberly
• Masser, Suzie
• Maurer, Albrecht
• Mazziotti, Donna
• McGinley, Hannah
• McIntyre, Geordie
• McMillan, Jory
• McMorland, Alison
• McVea, Jessica
• Messina, Jen
• Metzger, Kevin
• Milioti, Cristin
• Miner, Alex
• Mongiovi, Gabriella
• Morrice, Sam
• Mosthof, Marielle
• Myung, Tony
• Nestor, Justin
• Nguyen, Katherine
• Noel, Jenna
• Northrup, Steven
• Nuova compagnia del Maggio di Frassinoro
• Ollmann, Britta
• Orr, Sasha
• O’Rourke, Mary
• Panaro, Paolo
• PanHarmonium
• Pérez IV, José
• Perlow, Dave
• Peters, Jak
• Pierno, Corey
• Porter, Andrew
• Potter, Richard
• Powell, Greg
• Quick, Mary
• Ransom, Dan
• Rediger, Kate
• Reilly, Teresa
• Reinsch, Kendrick
• Rey, Lynne
• Richard, Jacob
• Riggs, Marcail
• Ritchie, Michael
• Robbins, Nick
• Rodenkirchen, Norbert
• Roquemore, Xosha
• Roschman, Sean
• Rotschild, Nitzan
• Rouch, Emily
• Russell, Sean
• Sarian, Alexander
• Schaller, Ryan
• Schmittler, Danny
• Schuckman, Amanda
• Schwartz, Eric
• Schwebach, Leah
• Seifter, Jennifer
• Shanklin, Jim
• Shear, Steve
• Sherburne, Mackenzie
• Shorts, Dorian
• Silvi, Lauren
• Skipitares, Theodora
• Smith, Colleen
• Società del Maggio Costabonese
• Spangler, Nick
• Sprague, Elizabeth
• Stanley, Brooke
• Stockman, Theo
• Stutzel, Kate
• Sund, Stacey
• Swartz, Kelly
• Tolaydo, Michael
• Treco, Haley
• Utz, Sarah
• Velie, Alan
• Villegas, Vanessa
• Weber, Zachary
• Wheeler, Sarah
• Wilson, Evan
• Worley, John
• Woycke, Kim
• Zaerr, Linda Marie
• Zaerr, Laura
• Zagarra, Joy

Title of clip:

• Aristotle: Aristotle's come-uppance
• Ash Tree: Romanesque harp accompaniment
• Aucassin: Aucassin and Nicolette together again
• Aucassin: Group performance
• Aucassin: Torelore
• Beowulf: Beowulf boasts; Hrothgar recalls Grendel’s assaults
• Beowulf: Beowulf fights Grendel
• Beowulf: Beowulf hunts Grendel’s mother
• Beowulf: Death of Beowulf and the dragon
• Beowulf: Dragon awakes
• Beowulf: Grendel comes
• Beowulf: In off the moors comes Grendel
• Beowulf: The grim demon arrives
• Beranger of the Long Ass
• Butcher: Group performance
• Butcher: Solo performance
• Conquest: William and Orable in the dungeon
• Conquest: William enters the Saracen city of Orange
• Culhwch and Olwen
• Disciplina: Little bird
• Edige: Scene from Turkic epic
• Erec: Couple’s welcome at Carnant
• Erec: Enide and the Evil Count
• Erec: Enide distraught
• Erec: Erec and Enide escape together
• Erec: Erec beats Kay
• Erec: Erec defeats three robbers
• Erec: Erec kills two evil giants
• Erec: Erec trounces Yder
• Erec: Wedding gifts to the church
• Eustace: Disguises
• Fables: Monkey King
• Fables: Mouse and Frog
• Gawain: Bertilak’s wife gets Gawain to accept green girdle
• Gawain: Bertilak’s wife tries to seduce Gawain
• Gawain: Bertilak’s wife tries yet again to seduce Gawain
• Gawain: Gawain gets ready for the Green Knight’s blow
• Gawain: Gawain leaves in search of Green Knight
• Gawain: Green Knight leaves and King Arthur reacts
• Gawain: Green Knight’s challenge
• Gawain: Hunting and wooing scenes
• Gawain: Lady attempts to seduce Gawain
• Gawain: The alarming Green Knight
• Gesta: Devil
• Gesta: Magician
• Gesta: Of fidelity, or young prince rescued from pirates
• Goatleaf: Romanesque harp accompaniment
• Golden Legend: Martyrdom of St. Felicitas and Her Seven Sons
• Golden Legend: St. Nicholas
• Golden Legend: Virgin Mary rescues widow's son from captivity
• Golden Legend: Virgin Mary saves thief from hanging
• Greed and Envy: The ending
• Hebrew Arthur: Author speaks; Merlin's trick
• Helen Queen of Sparta: Scenes
• Hilali epic: Awadallah sings of Abu Zayd
• Hunchbacks: Entire fabliau
• Hunchbacks: Inebriated minstrel starts telling the fabliau
• Hunchbacks: Servant tries to dispose of bodies
• Hunchbacks: Wife hires man to dispose of dead bodies
• Igor: Tragic campaign begins
• Inferno, canto VIII: Dante meets Francesca
• Jataka: Three tales
• Jataka: Two tales
• Judith: Judith prepares to kill Holophernes
• Karagö: Karagö as boatman
• King Orfeo: Sung
• Knights, Clerks, Churls
• Lancelot cuts off Proud Knight’s head at maiden’s request
• Lancelot: Dwarf deceives Lancelot
• Lancelot: Father vs. Son
• Lancelot: Queen Guinevere is delighted with Lancelot
• Lancelot: Queen Guinevere repents of her cruelty; Lancelot attempts suicide
• Metamorphoses: Narcissus
• Miracle of Theophilus
• Moor of Venice: Shakespeare’s source for Othello
• Nibelungenlied: Beautiful Brunhild
• Nibelungenlied: Comic, abridged, group
• Nibelungenlied: Gunter sees Brunhild
• Nibelungenlied: Gunter wants to win Brunhild
• Nibelungenlied: Hagen and water sprites
• Nibelungenlied: Krimhild and Brunhild puppets
• Nibelungenlied: Krimhild burns the men alive
• Nibelungenlied: Krimhild mourns over Sifried’s body
• Nibelungenlied: Krimhild’s dream
• Nibelungenlied: Opening lines; group dance
• Nibelungenlied: Siefried and dwarf Albericht
• Nibelungenlied: Sifried’s body is taken to the church
• Nightingale
• Nightingale: Romanesque harp accompaniment
• Orfeo: Opening scenes
• Orlando: Opening canto
• Our Lady's Tumbler
• Partridges with four performers
• Partridges: Wife devours birds
• Parzival: Wolfram speaks about himself and women
• Perceval: Gawain and Evil Maiden
• Perceval: Gawain knocks rude squire off his nag
• Perceval: Getting the Red Knight’s armor
• Perceval: Grail appears, Perceval silent
• Perceval: Knight insults maiden and Gawain
• Perceval: Ladies mock Gawain
• Perceval: Maiden with Little Sleeves taunts her sister
• Perceval: Perceval and Proud Knight
• Perceval: Perceval and the knights: devils or angels?
• Perceval: Perceval at hermitage
• Perceval: Perceval meets charcoal burner
• Perceval: Perceval takes knights for devils, then angels
• Perceval: Two sisters, a slap
• Renard: Camel, papal legate, speaks in court before Lion the King
• Renard: Chanteclere the Cock and his wife, Pinte the Hen
• Renard: Fox and Chanteclere the Cock
• Renard: Fox and Tibert the Cat
• Renard: Fox tricks Tibert the Cat
• Renard: Wolf returns home to his den
• Rhymed Roland: Aude and Charlemagne mourn together (in Old French)
• Rhymed Roland: Aude prays, then dies in Charlemagne's arms
• Rhymed Roland: Aude’s prayer over Oliver’s body
• Robin Hood and the bold peddler, guitar accompaniment
• Robin Hood and the golden arrow, guitar accompaniment
• Roland: Ballad of Roland and Oliver
• Roland: Charlemagne hears horn, Ganelon rebukes him
• Roland: Duke Samson is killed
• Roland: Roland blows his saxophone
• Roland: Roland grieves over Oliver
• Roland: Roland is fierce
• Roland: Roland's death, guitar accompaniment
• Roncisvalle: Maggio performance
• Rose or Dole: Scenes
• Rose: Covetousness, Envy, Sorrow, Poverty
• Rose: Dance in Garden; God of Love wounds young man
• Rose: God of Love with Wealth and Beauty
• Rose: Lover enters Garden of Mirth
• Rose: Lover's sufferings described
• Rose: Mimed images on garden wall
• Rose: Narcissus and Echo
• Rose: Narcissus and Echo-comic handling
• Rose: Narcissus and Echo-puppets
• Rose: Story until Lover receives kiss, 1
• Rose: Story until Lover receives kiss, 2
• Rose: Venus persuades Fair Welcome to kiss Lover
• Rose: Wealth
• Samson and Delilah
• Séquence de Sainte Eulalie (Sequence, or Song, of St. Eulalia)
• Silence: Eufemie reveals love for Cador
• Silence: Friendship and honor
• Silence: Merlin's laughter
• Silence: Merlin, Nature and Nurture
• Silence: Minstrels
• Silence: Minstrels arrive
• Silence: Nature creates Silence
• Silence: Queen accuses Silence of rape
• Silence: Queen tries to seduce Silence
• Silence: Silence leads knights in battle
• Silence: Silence's female identity revealed
• St. Brendan: Adventures
• St. John: Sins and miraculous forgiveness
• St. Peter and Jongleur: Puppets, 1
• St. Peter and Jongleur: Puppets, 2
• St. Peter and Jongleur: Satan finds all his souls gone
• Tahkemoni: Of seven maidens and their mendacity, 1
• Tahkemoni: Of seven maidens and their mendacity, 2
• Tain: Opening tales
• Tam Lin: Sung
• Tam Lin: Unaccompanied song
• There Was a City: A crazy world, a sane man
• Three Women: Drinking in tavern
• Three Women: The Musical
• Titurel: Hurdy-gurdy; an episode
• Tristan by Béroul: Iseut arrives at the swamp; villains fall in the mud
• Tristan by Béroul: Iseut as melodrama
• Tristan by Béroul: Iseut’s Oath, 1
• Tristan by Béroul: Iseut’s Oath, 2
• Tristan by Béroul: Lovers take revenge
• Tristan by Béroul: Potion wears off; Tristan repents
• Tristan by Béroul: Tristan rescues Iseut from lepers
• Tristan by Béroul: Tristan teaches dog to hunt without barking
• Tristan by Béroul: Tristan’s leap
• Tristan by Béroul: Villains plot
• Tristano: Maggio performance
• Troilus: Reading in a paved parlor
• Wedding of Gawain: What do women want?
• Wife of Bath: Crone turns into beautiful woman
• Wife of Bath: Fairies are gone
• Wife of Bath: Her misogynistic husband
• Wife of Bath: How she managed husbands
• Wife of Bath: Wife fights with husband
• Wife of Bath: Wife speaks about marriage
• Wife of Bath: Women are children of Venus
• Wife’s Lament: She tells of her sorrow
• William in Monastery: William forces his way into monastery and beats up monks
• Yvain: Calogrenant meets giant bull-herder
• Yvain: Fight with demons, 1
• Yvain: Fight with demons, 2
• Yvain: Lion attempts suicide
• Yvain: Love conquers Yvain
• Yvain: Love-Hate debate
• Yvain: Maiden provides horse
• Yvain: Yvain and Laudine talk of love, 1
• Yvain: Yvain and Laudine talk of love, 2
• Yvain: Yvain falls in love
• Yvain: Yvain fights boldly, defeats Count Alier
• Yvain: Yvain loses his mind
• Yvain: Yvain meets the Lion
• Yvain: Yvain's lion

Language of performance:

• Arabic, Egyptian
• Croatian, Renaissance
• English, Lowland Scots
• English, Middle
• English, Modern
• English, Old
• English, Shetland dialect
• French, Old
• German, Middle High
• Hebrew
• Italian, Medieval
• Italian, Modern
• Italian, Renaissance
• Karakalpak
• Latin, Classical
• Latin, Medieval
• Norn
• Turkish

Setting:

• classroom setting
• public performance setting
• recording/rehearsal space
• other

Geographical location:

• Croatia
• Egypt
• Italy
• Sweden
• Turkey
• United States
• Uzbekistan

Title of work:

• Amir Khafaji: Abu Zayd
• Aucassin et Nicolette (Aucassin and Nicolette)
• Ballad of Tam Lin
• Beowulf
• Berangier au long cul (Berangier of the Long Ass)
• Bouchier d'Abevile (Butcher of Abbeville)
• Canterbury Tales
• Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland)
• Chevaliers, les clers et les vilains (Knights, Clerks and Churls)
• Chtenie svetogo Ivana Zlatoustogo (Legend of St. John Chrysostom)
• Commedia (Divine Comedy): Inferno
• Convoiteux et l’envieux (Greed and Envy)
• Culhwch ac Olwen (Culhwch and Olwen)
• Disciplina clericalis (Scholar’s Guide): Lay, or Tale, of the Little Bird
• Edige
• Erec et Enide (Erec and Enide)
• Fables
• Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans)
• Helen Queen of Sparta
• Ic Þis wrece (Wife’s Lament)
• Jataka
• Judita (Judith)
• Karagö
• King Artus
• King Orfeo
• Lai d'Aristote (Lay of Aristotle)
• Lai de chevrefoil (Lay of the Goatleaf)
• Lai de laostic (Lay of the Nightingale)
• Lai del fresne (Lay of the Ash Tree)
• Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart)
• Legenda aurea (Golden Legend)
• Metamorphoses: Narcissus
• Miracle de Theophile (Miracle of Theophilus)
• Moniage Guillaume (William in the Monastery)
• Moro di Venezia (Moor of Venice)
• Navigatio sancti Brendani (Voyage of St. Brendan)
• Nibelungenlied (Song of the Nibelungs)
• Orlando innamorato (Roland in Love)
• Parzival
• Perceval ou le conte du Graal (Perceval or the Story of the Grail)
• Perdris (Partridges)
• Prise d’Orange (Conquest of Orange)
• Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
• Robin Hood and the Pedlar Bold (Robin Hood and the Bold Peddler)
• Roland rimé (Rhymed Roland)
• Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose)
• Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole (Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole)
• Roman de Renart (Romance of Renard the Fox)
• Roman de Silence (Romance of Silence)
• Roncisvalle (Roncevaux)
• Saint Piere et le jougleor (St. Peter and the Jongleur)
• Samson dux fortissime (Samson the Mightiest Leader)
• Séquence de Sainte Eulalie (Sequence, or Song, of St. Eulalia)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Sir Orfeo
• Slovo o polku Igoreve (Lay, or Song, of Igor’s Campaign)
• Tahkemoni (Book of Tahkemoni)
• Táin Bó Cúailnge (Tain [Cattle Raid])
• Titurel
• Tombeor Nostre Dame (Our Lady's Tumbler)
• Tristan et Iseut (Tristan and Iseut)
• Tristano e Isotta (Tristan and Isolde)
• Troilus and Criseyde
• Trois bossus (Three Hunchbacks)
• Trois dames de Paris (Three Women of Paris)
• Una ciutatz fo (There Was a City)
• Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell (Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell)
• Wistasse le moine (Eustace the Monk)
• Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain or the Knight with the Lion)

Author:

• Anonymous
• Béroul
• Chrétien de Troyes
• Dante Allighieri
• Durand
• Eustache d'Amiens
• Fioroni, Romolo
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Giambattista Cinzio Giraldi
• Guerin
• Guillaume de Lorris
• Heldris of Cornwall
• Henri d'Andeli
• Jacobus de Voragine
• Jean Bodel
• Jean Renart
• Judah Al-Harizi
• Marie de France
• Marko Marulic
• Matteo Maria Boiardo
• Ovid (P. Ovidius Naso)
• Pedro Alfonso
• Peire Cardenal
• Pierre de Saint-Cloud
• Rutebeuf
• Skipitares, Theodora
• Watriquet de Couvin
• Wolfram von Eschenbach

Genre:

• fable
• song
• ballad
• lament
• allegory
• chantefable
• epic
• fabliau
• hagiography
• lai
• romance
• satire
• tale/collection of tales
• other

Subject:

• Arthurian legends
• Bible
• Charlemagne/Roland
• Christian legends/saints/the Virgin
• Islamic legends/history
• Jewish legends/history
• Mythology: Anglo-Saxon/Germanic
• Mythology: Buddhist
• Mythology: Celtic
• Mythology: Classical
• Renart
• Robin Hood
• Tristan
• Other

Period:

• Antiquity, Greek
• Antiquity, Latin
• Early Middle Ages: 5th-8th century
• Early Middle Ages: 9th-11th century
• Middle Ages: 12th-13th century
• Middle Ages: 14th-15th century
• Modern: 16th-18th century
• Modern: 19th-21st century
• Unknown

Language of work:

• Arabic, Egyptian
• Croatian, Medieval
• Croatian, Renaissance
• English, Lowland Scots
• English, Middle
• English, Modern
• English, Old
• English, Shetland dialect
• French, Old
• German, Middle High
• Hebrew
• Irish, Old
• Italian, Medieval
• Italian, Modern
• Italian, Renaissance
• Karakalpak
• Latin, Classical
• Latin, Medieval
• Norn
• Occitan (Old Provençal)
• Pali
• Russian, Medieval
• Turkish
• Welsh, Medieval