Long-gestating co-editing project finally published as part of 700-page book. Continue reading New Publication: The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
Category Archives: medieval French literature
Review of a new collection of essays on Adam de la Halle
This clerihew didn’t make it into my review of this new volume of essays on Adam de la Halle: Continue reading Review of a new collection of essays on Adam de la Halle
Imagining the performance of trouvère song
My article treating a ‘boring’ song by Blondel de Nesle has just been published by Early Music. Continue reading Imagining the performance of trouvère song
Do trouvère melodies mean anything?
My article on three songs by Blondel de Nesle just appeared in Music Analysis. Continue reading Do trouvère melodies mean anything?
Resonance in Richard de Fournival
My co-authored article with French literary scholar Jonathan Morton on the sonic aspects of Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love has just appeared in the journal Romania. Continue reading Resonance in Richard de Fournival
Performance workshop 3: JP30
A third post from the performance workshop with graindelavoix, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust and held at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in March 2017. Continue reading Performance workshop 3: JP30
Performance Workshop 2: JP4
A second post from the performance workshop with graindelavoix, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust and held at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in March 2017. Continue reading Performance Workshop 2: JP4
Performing jeux-partis with graindelavoix
This second year of my Leverhulme project will involve a workshop with performers designed to help me think about my unnotated manuscript in a more musical way. Continue reading Performing jeux-partis with graindelavoix
The source materials for large medieval chansonniers
How were large collections of lyric poetry (with or without music) assembled?
Continue reading The source materials for large medieval chansonniers
The Philosopher’s Pony Play
Image by Vassil — Personal work, CC0
For all that he is The Philosopher in the later Middle Ages, the most striking iconographical depictions of Aristotle from the period are of him on all fours, being ridden by a woman. Continue reading The Philosopher’s Pony Play
