Guillaume de Machaut and Reims
Context and Meaning in his Musical Works
- Author: Walters Robertson, Anne
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Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and conventions
- Prologue: context and meaning in Guillaume de Machaut's musical works
- Part I . Reims and its Music: Cathedral, City, Archdiocese:
- 1. Guillaume de Machaut in Reims
- 2. Canonical affirmation and resistance in Machaut's motets 18 and 19
- Part II . Turned-About Love Songs:
- 3. Machaut's motets 1-17 and the medieval mystical tradition
- 4. The beginning of love's journey
- 5. The middle of love's journey: the struggle with sin
- 6. The end of love's journey: union with the beloved
- Part III . Music of War, Kingship and Final Things:
- 7. Machaut's late motets and the Hundred Years War in Reims
- 8. Machaut's David Hocket and the coronation of Charles V (1364)
- 9. Machaut's Mass of Our Lady and composer remembrance through music
- Epilogue: context, meaning and artistry in Machaut's music
- Appendix A: documents
- Appendix B: texts and translations of Machaut's motets
- Appendix C: manuscripts consulted for the musical examples
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of works by Machaut
- Index of manuscripts
- General index.