medieval composers – Page 7 – Elizabeth Eva Leach

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

Detail from a fourteenth century alms purse — 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

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