Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical WorksGuillaume 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, the coronation site of French kings. From this penetrating study of his music, 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. |
Contents
Guillaume de Machaut in Reims | 13 |
Rome of the West | 17 |
Christianity in Reims Christianity in France | 19 |
Growth of Reims and the fourteenthcentury laicization | 22 |
Reims Cathedral | 25 |
Cathedral chapter | 33 |
Schools in Reims and some speculations on Machauts education | 37 |
Liturgy and music | 39 |
Desire for freedom in Motet 12 | 158 |
Ruins of love in Motet 13 | 161 |
Languishing and lying in Motet 14 | 163 |
Fleeting sight of the beloved in Motet 15 | 165 |
an exemplum | 167 |
Musical structure and symmetry in Motets 117 | 170 |
Final union with the beloved in Motet 17 | 176 |
Scens context and genesis in Machauts Motets 117 | 179 |
Coronation rites | 47 |
Choir and choirboys | 49 |
Chapter library | 53 |
Canonical affirmation and resistance in Machauts Motets 18 and 19 | 55 |
Images of past episcopal renown in Motet 18 | 57 |
Motet 18 in the iconography and music of Reims Cathedral | 63 |
The laudes regiae of Reims and the performance of Motet 18 | 65 |
Canonical solidarity in the archdiocese and Motet 19 for Saint Quintinus | 70 |
Motet 19 and the honorific genre | 71 |
The sculptures on the choir wall at SaintQuentin and Motet 19 | 74 |
The annual chapter meetings at StQuentin | 75 |
Machauts Motets 117 and the medieval mystical tradition | 81 |
Motets 120 and their internal groupings | 84 |
Affective motet tenors affective theology | 86 |
Commentaries on the Song of Songs in the mystical tradition | 92 |
Wisdom literature in the mystical tradition | 95 |
Susos Horologium Sapientiae | 98 |
Steps of the spiritual journey Susos Horologium Sapientiae and Machauts Motets 117 | 103 |
The beginning of loves journey | 105 |
Beginning of love service in Motet 1 | 112 |
Sighs for the beloved in Motet 2 | 115 |
Death of the beloved in Motet 3 | 118 |
Hope for mercy merci in Motet 4 | 120 |
Willingness to suffer in Motet 5 | 122 |
Joy in the sighttocome in Motet 6 | 125 |
The middle of loves journey the struggle with sin | 130 |
The sin of pride and the feminine voice in Motet 7 | 131 |
Sin and Lady Fortune in Motet 8 | 134 |
Face to face with sin and the Devil in Motet 9 | 139 |
The deadly sins and Motet 9 | 141 |
Dreux de Hautvillers scholaster and poet of Reims | 142 |
Musical construction and Scens in Motet 9 | 147 |
The end of loves journey union with the beloved | 154 |
Comings and goings of the beloved in Motet 11 | 156 |
a valediction for Bonne of Luxembourg | 186 |
Machauts late motets and the Hundred Years War in Reims | 191 |
Motets 2123 and the late style | 192 |
Cries for help hymn paraphrase animal imagery and apocalyptic allusion in Motet 21 | 194 |
Personifying regni respublica and admonishing a duke in Motet 22 | 208 |
Motet 23 and the beginning of the Salve service in Reims | 217 |
The ordering of Motets 2123 in Machauts manuscripts | 223 |
Machauts David Hocket and the coronation of Charles V 1364 | 226 |
The David Hocket and the question of function | 227 |
The David Hocket and the motet tradition | 230 |
of Old Testament kingship | 231 |
Rex christianissimus King David and the French polemical literature | 236 |
King David and Charles V | 239 |
King David and Machauts David Hocket | 243 |
Notre Dame de Reims and the Marian tenor of the David Hocket | 250 |
Machaut and the coronation of Charles V | 253 |
Machauts Moss of Our Lady and composer remembrance through music | 259 |
An inscription for the Machaut brothers | 260 |
Machauts Mass in the liturgy and music of Reims Cathedral | 262 |
Endowments and wills the Machaut brothers epitaph and the performance of the Mass | 271 |
The altar near the Rouelle in Reims Cathedral | 272 |
Machauts Mass and composer remembrance | 274 |
Context meaning and artistry in Machauts music | 278 |
Innovation and musical artistry | 280 |
Implications | 282 |
Documents | 284 |
Texts and translations of Machauts motets Old French translations by Colleen Donagher | 296 |
Manuscripts consulted for the musical examples | 334 |
Notes | 339 |
Bibliography | 410 |
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Other editions - View all
Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works Anne Walters Robertson No preview available - 2002 |
Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works Anne Walters Robertson No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
allegorical altar Amours Appendix archbishop of Reims Bibl Bibliothèque Bonne of Luxembourg canons of Reims Capetian chant Chapter Charles choir Christ church composer coronation courtly cuer Dame David Hocket death Demouy Desportes Disciple discussion Document Earp edition English Example feasts Figure Fleurs de Lis Flodoard fourteenth century France French Guillaume de Machaut heart Henry Suso Hincmar Histoire Holy Horologium Ibid idem introitus isorhythmic Jean journey king Kyrie Lady Latin likewise liturgy Lover Machaut's Mass Machaut's Motets 1-17 manuscripts Marian Medieval melisma mercy middle ages Motet 18 Motet 21 Motet 9 mystical Paris Philip Philippe de Vitry piece PMFC poem polyphony Quintinus Reims Cathedral Rémois responsory Roman de Fauvel Rouelle royal Saint Saint Remigius Sanctus Scens soul spiritual sung tenor tenor source themes thirteenth century Trans translation triplum of Motet upper voices Vitry vols Wisdom Wisdom's Watch words
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