found: Work cat: McMahon, J.V. The music of the early Minnesang, c1990.
found: New Grove(Minnesang)
found: New Harvard dict. mus.(Minnesang)
found: Web. 3(Minnesong; minnesang)
found: Grove music online, viewed Aug. 12, 2015(The German tradition of courtly lyric and secular monophony that flourished particularly in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries. Though it is in many ways merely the German branch of the genre represented by the troubadours and trouvères in France, it has substantial independent features. The musical history of Minnesang is a particularly controversial subject because the melodies survive largely in manuscripts from the 14th and 15th centuries)