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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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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.

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The composer P. des Molins

Updated version of the English draft for my 2005 MGG entry on P. des Molins.

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The composer Grimace

Updated English version of 2002 dictionary entry on Grimace.

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Music and verbal meaning: Machaut’s polytextual songs (contains links to full text)

Opening of Machaut’s De triste/Quant/Certes (B29)

A paper showing that the music’s functional, contrapuntal aspect can significantly inflect the meaning of the texts that it delivers.

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Guillaume de Machaut, royal almoner (contains links to full text of article)

Detail from a fourteenth-century alms purse. Source: http://www.cottesimple.com/alms_purse/cloisters_purse.htm

A paper outlining Machaut’s early career in royal service suggests that his function as an almoner had a distinct influence on his conception of generosity.

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Forging song in the medieval rehearsal room (contains links to full text)

Pythagoras in the forge (left) from GKS 80 2º: Speculum humanae salvationis, 47 verso Speculum humanae salvationis [The Mirror of Human Salvation], Germany, 1400-1450
Paper on distributed cognition and medieval song is published in a volume edited by Mary Carruthers