{"product_id":"guillaume-de-machaut-and-reims-context-and-meaning-in-his-musical-works-paperback-9780521036085","title":"Guillaume de Machaut and Reims; Context and Meaning in his Musical Works (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521036085","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGuillaume de Machaut and Reims\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eContext and Meaning in his Musical Works\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of Machaut, fourteenth-century French composer and poet, who wrote the first polyphonic Mass.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnne Walters Robertson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521036085, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 March 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages, 29 b\/w illus.  14 tables  19 music examples\u003cbr\u003e24.3 x 16.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.754 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A real strength of this book is its wealth of careful research into culture and ideas … this skilful book has a somewhat hybrid quality. It presents a wealth of research about the cultural environment within which Machaut and his Reims contemporaries lived and provides extremely useful materials, such as complete texts and English translations of all the Machaut motets. But it also poses intriguing historiographic questions about interpretative reconstruction of a composer's motivations and intentions through circumstantial inferences - a difficult enough task even when there is more concrete documentary information than exists for Guillaume de Machaut … will resonate through scholarship for years to come.' Music and Letters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGuillaume 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and conventions\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: context and meaning in Guillaume de Machaut's musical works\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Reims and its Music: Cathedral, City, Archdiocese: 1. Guillaume de Machaut in Reims\u003cbr\u003e 2. Canonical affirmation and resistance in Machaut's motets 18 and 19\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Turned-About Love Songs: 3. Machaut's motets 1-17 and the medieval mystical tradition\u003cbr\u003e 4. The beginning of love's journey\u003cbr\u003e 5. The middle of love's journey: the struggle with sin\u003cbr\u003e 6. The end of love's journey: union with the beloved\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Music of War, Kingship and Final Things: 7. Machaut's late motets and the Hundred Years War in Reims\u003cbr\u003e 8. Machaut's David Hocket and the coronation of Charles V (1364)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Machaut's Mass of Our Lady and composer remembrance through music\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: context, meaning and artistry in Machaut's music\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: documents\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: texts and translations of Machaut's motets\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: manuscripts consulted for the musical examples\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index of works by Machaut\u003cbr\u003e Index of manuscripts\u003cbr\u003e General index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20history:%20c%20500%20to%20c%201450\/1500%20%5BHBLC%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e], Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance music\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Medieval%20\u0026amp;%20Renaissance%20music%20%5Bc%201000%20to%20c%201600%5D%20%5BAVGC2%5D%22\"\u003ec 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006239789336,"sku":"9780521036085","price":48.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521036085i_c98ad44d-3fd2-446a-8f47-fd75d69d5d24.jpg?v=1694968342","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/guillaume-de-machaut-and-reims-context-and-meaning-in-his-musical-works-paperback-9780521036085","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}