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Medieval song and subjectivity

My review of Judith Peraino’s book on subjectivity in late trouvère song has appeared in Early Music.

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German medieval song manuscripts online

Links to some bits of the medieval German vernacular song repertoire now online.

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Guillaume de Machaut medieval composers publications

A companion to Guillaume de Machaut

Multi-disciplinary volume on Machaut published.

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Another Machaut patron?

Full-text link to my new blog-only paper on a possible patron for the important Machaut Manuscript F-Pn fr.1584 (A)

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Manuscript sources for the thirteenth-century motet

Some sources of ars antiqua motets!

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Free score of a Machaut virelai

My edition of Guillaume de Machaut’s virelai En mon cuer (V27/24) is now available as part of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society’s free downloads.

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Guillaume de Machaut wins award from the Renaissance Society of America

My 2011 book on Machaut has just been awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for 2012 by the Renaissance Society of America.

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Music and death before 1650: (partial) conference review

One of the world’s oldest musical societies discusses the role of music in death.

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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!]

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medieval singers publications

Grammar in the medieval song-school