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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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academic life digital humanities publications

Open-access links to full content (includes link to my review of Kirkman’s book on the Cyclic Mass)

Generous Links from Early Music.

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medieval composers publications

The composer P. des Molins

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

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medieval composers publications

The composer Grimace

Updated English version of 2002 dictionary entry on Grimace.

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academic life Guillaume de Machaut publications

Publishing a scholarly book

How publishing a monograph can take much longer than anticipated. **Updated Jan 2011**

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Guillaume de Machaut medieval composers publications

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 medieval composers publications

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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medieval composers medieval singers publications

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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Guillaume de Machaut publications

Guillaume de Machaut’s legacy in the Chantilly Codex

Cordier’s Belle, bonne, sage (detail) from the Chantilly Codex. Source: http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/chantilly.html

Conference paper from 2001 finally makes it into print!

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‘Grafting the Rose’


Photo of Neustift/Novacella from the North by Adrian Michael. Source: http://bit.ly/cNMJWZ

Conference paper from 2000 finally makes it into print!