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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, 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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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!

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