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medieval singers publications

Grammar in the medieval song-school

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academic life conference reports

A medievalist at the inaugural Music and Philosophy Study Group of the RMA conference

In the opening plenary, Michael Spitzer remarked that “there’s a difference between being a philosopher and reading philosophy”. If this conference was representative, I think I’ll stick to the latter.

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academic life Guillaume de Machaut publications

Restricting online access

Some publishers fear that my posting pdfs of my published work on this website will jeopardize their sales.

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Learn to read 14thC French music notation

Learn to read 14thC music notation with online tutorials!

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medieval composers medieval singers publications

Music in the fourteenth century: a short general overview (contains link to full text)

My chapter on the fourteenth century from the Cambridge Companion to Medieval Music, edited by Mark Everist has now been published by Cambridge University Press.

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Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician on Radio 3

Radio 3 interview about the publication of my book on Guillaume de Machaut

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academic life gender publications

A collegial colloquy?

My reply to Sarah Fuller’s 2011 attack on my 2006 article about medieval music theory and gender has just been published.

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digital humanities publications

The Medieval Song Network (includes text of my 2005 ‘Learning French by Singing’ article)

New website launched to bring together scholars working on medieval song from various disciplinary perspectives

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Guillaume de Machaut medieval composers publications

Order form for discounted copies of my book on Guillaume de Machaut

The marketing team at Cornell University Press has sent me a flyer for my book, which offers a discount on orders.

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The Sound of Beauty: Darwin Lecture 2011

Dealing with the dangers of music in the Middle Ages.