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Guillaume de Machaut wins award from the Renaissance Society of America

My 2011 book on Machaut has just been awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for 2012 by the Renaissance Society of America.

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Music and death before 1650: (partial) conference review

One of the world’s oldest musical societies discusses the role of music in death.

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The wonders of Gallica: some troubadour and trouvère sources

The online resource Gallica is adding stuff all the time — it’s hard to keep up. This post is about their coverage of some of the main medieval monophonic song books.[NB: now updated to include sources outside Gallica!]

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2011 in review

The nice people at WordPress.com have generated a 2011 annual report for my blog.

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An analysis of Machaut’s B18

My chapter presenting an analysis of Guillaume de Machaut’s balade, De petit po (B18), has just been published (partial access via Google Books).

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DIAMM publications honoured in AMS Palisca Award

DIAMM publications congratulates Magnus Williamson on his Palisca Prize.

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A review of medieval music CDs

My review of several recent CDs of early music has just appeared in Early Music.

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Machaut manuscripts online **UPDATED MAY 2021**

Links to the Machaut manuscripts.

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gender

More on music and sex

My letter (responding to Fuller’s letter responding to my 2011 response to her 2011 article attacking Leach 2006) has just been published.

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A concordance for an early fourteenth-century motet

My first blog-only ‘publication’ Link to full text pdf version; Link to StM version of motet