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Guillaume de Machaut, medieval composers, publications

Music and verbal meaning: Machaut’s polytextual songs (contains links to full text)

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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. Continue reading Music and verbal meaning: Machaut’s polytextual songs (contains links to full text) →

medieval composers, medieval singers, publications

Forging song in the medieval rehearsal room (contains links to full text)

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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 Continue reading Forging song in the medieval rehearsal room (contains links to full text) →