Machaut's Music

Machaut's Music
Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1843830167

Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost poet-composer of his time. Studies look at all aspects of his prodigious output.

Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut
Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501704869

At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a book that encompasses all aspects of his work, illuminating it in a distinctively interdisciplinary light. The author provides a comprehensive picture of Machaut's artistry, reviews the documentary evidence about his life, charts the different agendas pursued by modern scholarly disciplines in their rediscovery and use of specific parts of his output, and delineates Machaut's own poetic and material presentation of his authorial persona. Leach treats Machaut's central poetic themes of hope, fortune, and death, integrating the aspect of Machaut's multimedia art that differentiates him from his contemporaries' treatment of similar thematic issues: music. In restoring the centrality of music in Machaut's poetics, arguing that his words cannot be truly understood or appreciated without the additional layers of meaning created in their musicalization, Leach makes a compelling argument that musico-literary performance occupied a special place in the courts of fourteenth-century France.

Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut
Author: Lawrence Earp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136781773

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9
Author: Jacques Boogaart
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1580442889

This long overdue new edition of Guillaume de Machaut's twenty-three motets, the largest surviving collection of such works by a single composer in this period, is based on the most authoritative of the surviving manuscripts and is designed to meet the needs both of advanced scholars and musicians as well as students and performers. This user-friendly format indicates variants on the scores and has a layout that makes each work's structure clearly visible; the lyrics, with full English translation, are presented at the end of each work.

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2
Author: Uri Smilansky
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2019-04-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1580443907

This volume is the second of the thirteen in preparation that will offer the first complete scholarly edition of the poetry and music of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost practitioner of these related arts at the end of the Middle Ages in France. It provides a freshly prepared edition based on the most reliable manuscript of two of Machaut's best known dits, the Remede de Fortune (Remedy for Fortune) and the Confort d'ami (Consolation from a Friend), both of which adapt the central ideas of Boethian philosophy to the love poetry tradition. The French texts are accompanied by facing English translations, and the musical passages are presented in situ in a performance-accessible form.

Poetry, Art, and Music in Guillaume de Machaut's Earliest Manuscript (BnF Fr. 1586)

Poetry, Art, and Music in Guillaume de Machaut's Earliest Manuscript (BnF Fr. 1586)
Author: Lawrence Marshburn Earp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2021-07-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9782503586915

Around the middle of a career lasting over forty years, Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-77) was afforded an outstanding opportunity to present his oeuvre in a book. The occasion arose in the late 1340s, when a special manuscript was commissioned, perhaps by Queen Jeanne de Bourgogne, for the first time collecting all of Machaut's works, including narrative poems, lyrical poems, musical settings of lyrics, and motets. The manuscript would celebrate Bonne of Luxembourg, the wife of a future king of France. Only the royal treasury could have funded the extraordinary team of craftsmen involved in its production - from the careful preparation of fine parchment, to the calligraphy and ornament of the text, to the carefully copied innovative ars nova musical notation, to the miniatures painted in a shop directed by one of the greatest illuminators in France. Then Bonne died of the Black Death in 1349, just before the manuscript was completed. It would be finished for her son, the future King Charles the Wise. Although Machaut would go on to supervise other manuscripts, none were so luxuriously executed as his first complete-works manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, fr. 1586), known today as Machaut MS C. The present volume, the first dedicated entirely to MS C, offers a multidisciplinary collection of essays written by fourteen leading scholars, who provide innovative approaches to literary, musical, art-historical, and manuscript studies. It is replete with images, including over sixty colour reproductions from MS C itself.

A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut

A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut
Author: Deborah McGrady
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9004225811

This collection provides a comprehensive reading of Machaut’s literary and musical corpus that privileges his engagement with contemporary political, ethical, and aesthetic concerns of late medieval culture as well as his reception by artists and thinkers, medieval and modern.

Guillaume de Machaut and Reims

Guillaume de Machaut and Reims
Author: Anne Walters Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2002-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521418768

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Reader's Guide to Music

Reader's Guide to Music
Author: Murray Steib
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2013-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135942625

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

The Cambridge History of Musical Performance

The Cambridge History of Musical Performance
Author: Colin Lawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1066
Release: 2012-02-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316184420

The intricacies and challenges of musical performance have recently attracted the attention of writers and scholars to a greater extent than ever before. Research into the performer's experience has begun to explore such areas as practice techniques, performance anxiety and memorisation, as well as many other professional issues. Historical performance practice has been the subject of lively debate way beyond academic circles, mirroring its high profile in the recording studio and the concert hall. Reflecting the strong ongoing interest in the role of performers and performance, this History brings together research from leading scholars and historians and, importantly, features contributions from accomplished performers, whose practical experiences give the volume a unique vitality. Moving the focus away from the composers and onto the musicians responsible for bringing the music to life, this History presents a fresh, integrated and innovative perspective on performance history and practice, from the earliest times to today.