Copies of my new co-edited book now received!
Category Archives: medieval singers
At the Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference 2015
I was honoured to be invited to give the opening Plenary lecture at the MAA annual meeting, this year held at the University of Notre Dame in the US.
Leach en France, Leach en français
Texte et présentation Powerpoint sur le contrepoint chez Machaut.
The singer is an ass
The newly recognized relevance to musicology of a short article from 1905 about words for driving beasts of burden.
Medieval song and subjectivity
My review of Judith Peraino’s book on subjectivity in late trouvère song has appeared in Early Music.
German medieval song manuscripts online
Links to some bits of the medieval German vernacular song repertoire now online.
Music and death before 1650: (partial) conference review
One of the world’s oldest musical societies discusses the role of music in death.
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!]
Grammar in the medieval song-school
Learn to read 14thC French music notation
Learn to read 14thC music notation with online tutorials!
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