Poetry, art, and music in Guillaume de Machaut's earliest manuscript (Bnf Fr. 1586) / edited by Lawrence Earp and Jared C. Hartt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Earp, Lawrence Marshburn, editor.

Hartt, Jared C., editor.

Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, issuing body.

Series:

Collection "Epitome musical"

Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance. Collection "Épitome musical"

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377.

Guillaume.

Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

476 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles (chiefly color), music (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]

Summary:

Around the middle of a career lasting over forty years, Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-77) was afforded an outstanding opportunity to present his oeuvre in a book. The occasion arose in the late 1340s, when a special manuscript was commissioned, perhaps by Queen Jeanne de Bourgogne, for the first time collecting all of Machaut?s works, including narrative poems, lyrical poems, musical settings of lyrics, and motets. The manuscript would celebrate Bonne of Luxembourg, the wife of a future king of France. Only the royal treasury could have funded the extraordinary team of craftsmen involved in its production - from the careful preparation of fine parchment, to the calligraphy and ornament of the text, to the carefully copied innovative ars nova musical notation, to the miniatures painted in a shop directed by one of the greatest illuminators in France. Then Bonne died of the Black Death in 1349, just before the manuscript was completed. It would be finished for her son, the future King Charles the Wise. Although Machaut would go on to supervise other manuscripts, none were so luxuriously executed as his first complete-works manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 1586), known today as Machaut MS C. The present volume, the first dedicated entirely to MS C, offers a multidisciplinary collection of essays written by fourteen leading scholars, who provide innovative approaches to literary, musical, art-historical, and manuscript studies. It is replete with images, including over sixty colour reproductions from MS C itself.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Manuscript: Aspects of Production and Reception

1. Machaut's First Single-Author Compilation / Elizabeth Eva Leach

2. Made to Measure? On the Intimate Relations between Parchment and Text in MS C's Remedede Fortune / Anne Stone

3. A Multimodal Reading of MS C: Order, Decoration, Mutation / Kate Maxwell

Art-Historical Genre and Invention

4. Courting Convention, Compiling Context: Chansonnier Iconography and Beyond in Machaut's MS / Kathleen Wilson Ruffo

5. The Master of the Remedede Fortune and Parisian Ateliers c. 1350 / Kyunghee Pyun

6. Artifice and Ornament in the Dit dou lyon Garden Miniature / Margaret Goehring

7. Coming of Age in Guillaume de Machaut's First Illuminated Dit de lalerion / Domenic Leo

Narrative and Lyrics

8. Telling Tales: What Is a dit? / Helen J. Swift

9. La Loange des dames: Questions of Genre, Layout, Style, and Chronology in the Collection of Unnotated Lyrics in Machaut's Earliest Manuscript / Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel

10. Guillaume de Machaut and the Advent of a New School of Lyric c.1350: The Prestige of the Past / Yolanda Plumley

Music: A Focus on the Motets

11. Approaching the Motets in MS C: Structure, Sonority, Sense / Jared C. Hartt

12. Sound and Cipher: Number Symbolism in Machaut's Motets / Jacques Boogaart

13. Traces of Revision in Machaut's Motet Bone pastor / Karen Desmond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9782503586915

2503586910

OCLC:

1260321254