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digital humanities publications

Early music and web 2.0 (with links to full text)

My short opinion piece in the anniversary issue of Early Music has just been published.

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medieval French literature Teaching materials

Renart le Nouvel

Beast satire with songs.

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digital humanities medieval composers medieval singers

The singer is an ass

The newly recognized relevance to musicology of a short article from 1905 about words for driving beasts of burden.

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digital humanities

It might be technology, but a medieval manuscript is not an iPad

Why analogies between medieval and modern technologies should be used with care.

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academic life

Revisiting old work

Work on a chapter for an edited collection on jugement poetry involves some rehashing…and a brief rant about Sound Studies.

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medieval composers medieval singers publications

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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Guillaume de Machaut medieval composers publications

A companion to Guillaume de Machaut

Multi-disciplinary volume on Machaut published.

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digital humanities

Manuscript sources for the thirteenth-century motet

Some sources of ars antiqua motets!

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academic life conference reports Guillaume de Machaut medieval composers medieval singers

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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digital humanities Douce 308 project medieval composers medieval French literature medieval singers Teaching materials

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!]