Machaut's music : new interpretations / edited by Elizabeth Eva Leach.

Other author Leach, Elizabeth Eva editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoWoodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; New York : Boydell Press, 2003.
Descriptionxviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377--Criticism and interpretation.

SeriesStudies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 1
Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 1. ^A691570
Contents Symmetry and dissymmetry in the music of the Lay de bonne esperance (L18/13) / Virginia Newes -- Speculum mortis: form and signification in Machaut's motet He! Mors/Fine amour/Quare non sum mortuus (M3) / Jacques Boogaart -- Observations on Machaut's motet He! Mors, com tu es haie/Fine amour, qui me vint navrer/Quare non sum mortuus (M3) / Alice V. Clark -- Flos/Celsa and Machaut's motets: emulation and error? / Thomas Brown -- Texture and counterpoint in the four-voice mass settings of Machaut and his contemporaries / Kevin N. Moll -- The 'harmony' of the Machaut Mass / Margaret Bent -- Machaut's Mass and sounding number / Owen Rees -- Singing more about singing less: Machaut's Pour ce que tous (B12) / Elizabeth Eva Leach -- Music writing and poetic voice in Machaut: some remarks on B12 and R14 / Anne Stone -- A portrayal of the lady who guards her honour (B25) / Jehoash Hirshberg -- Machaut's B-flat balade Honte, paour (B25) / Peter M. Lefferts -- The intabulation of De toutes flours (B31) in the Codex Faenza as analytical model / Jane Flynn -- Machaut's balade Ploures dames (B32) in the light of real modality / Christian Berger -- Balades 32 and 33 and the 'res dalemangne' / Jennifer Bain -- Male and female voice in two virelais of Guillaume de Machaut / William Peter Mahrt -- The marriage of words and music: Musique naturele and Musique artificiele in Machaut's Sans cuer, dolens (R4) / Yolanda Plumley -- Rose, lis revisited / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson -- Some observations regarding musico-textual interrelationships in late rondeaux by Machaut / Karl Kügle.
Abstract Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) is regarded as the greatest French poet-composer of the middle ages, as he was during his lifetime. A trained secretary, with a passion for collecting, copying and ordering his own work, the number of surviving notated musical works attributed to him far exceeds that of any of his contemporaries. All the main genres of song--lais, virelais, balades, and rondeaux--together with Machaut's motets, and his famous Mass cycle are considered here from a variety of perspectives. These incorporate the latest scholarly understanding of both Machaut's poetry and music, and the material form they take when notated in the surviving manuscripts. The book thus presents a detailed picture of the current range of interpretative approaches to Machaut's music, focusing variously on counterpoint, musica ficta, text setting, musico-poetic meanings, citation and intertextuality, tonality, and compositional method. Several of Machaut's works are discussed by a pair of contributors, who reach conclusions at times mutually reinforcing or complementary, at times contradictory and mutually exclusive. That Machaut's music thrives on such constructive debate and disagreement is a tribute to his scope as an artist, and his musico-poetic achievement.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.
LCCN 2003005345
ISBN1843830167 (hardback : alk. paper)

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