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9780521036085

Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works

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    9780521036085

  • ISBN10:

    0521036089

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-03-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Guillaume de Machaut, renowned fourteenth-century French composer and poet, wrote the first polyphonic Mass and many other important musical works. Friend of royalty, prelates, noted poets and musicians, Machaut was a cosmopolitan presence in late medieval Europe. He also served as canon of the cathedral of Reims, an ancient and influential archiepiscopal see and the coronation site of French kings. This exploration of Machaut's life and work focuses on his music based on ecclesiastical chants: twenty-three motets, the David Hocket, and the Mass of Our Lady. The meaning of his music can often be understood through study of its context in fourteenth-century Reims. Machaut emerges as a composer deeply involved in the great crises of his day, one who skilfully and artfully expresses profound themes of human existence in ardent music and poetry.

Table of Contents

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions
Prologue: context and meaning in Guillaume de Machaut's musical works
Reims and its Music: Cathedral, City, Archdiocese
Guillaume de Machaut in Reims
Canonical affirmation and resistance in Machaut's motets 18 and 19
Turned-About Love Songs
Machaut's motets 1-17 and the medieval mystical tradition
The beginning of love's journey
The middle of love's journey: the struggle with sin
The end of love's journey: union with the beloved
Music of War, Kingship and Final Things
Machaut's late motets and the Hundred Years War in Reims
Machaut's David Hocket and the coronation of Charles V (1364)
Machaut's Mass of Our Lady and composer remembrance through music
Epilogue: context, meaning and artistry in Machaut's music
Documents
Texts and translations of Machaut's motets
Manuscripts consulted for the musical examples
Notes
Bibliography
Index of works by Machaut
Index of manuscripts
General index
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