Guillaume de Machaut : a guide to research

686 Pages·1995·77.031 MB·English

by  Earp, Lawrence

GUILLAUME
DE MACHAUT
GARLAND COMPOSER RESOURCE MANUALS
VOLUME 36
GARLAND REFERENCE LIBRARY OF THE HUMANITIES
VOLUME 996
GARLAND COMPOSER RESOURCE MANUALS
GUY A. MARCO, General Editor
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER CLAUDE DEBUSSY
by Calvin Elliker by James Brisco
JOHANNES OCKEGHEM AND JACOB G. F. HANDEL
OBRECHT by Mary Ann Parker-Hale
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
HENRY PURCELL by Floyd K. Grave
by Franklin B. Zimmerman and Margaret G. Grave
CLAUDIO MONTERVERDI ALESSANDRO AND DOMENICO
by K. Gary Adams SCARLATTI
and Dyke Kiel by Carole F. Vidali
CARL MARIA VON WEBER GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT
by Doanld G. Henderson by Lawrence Earp
and Alice H. Henderson
EDWARD ELGAR
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI by Christopher Kent
by Marvin E. Paymer
and Hermine W. Williams
GUILLAUME
DE M A C H A UT
A GUIDE TO RESEARCH
LAWRENCE EARP
First published by Garland Publishing, Inc.
This edition published 2012 by Routledge
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Earp, Lawrence Marshburn.
Guillaume de Machaut : a guide to research / Lawrence Earp.
p. cm. — (Garland composer resource manuals ; 36)
Discography: p. ***
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8240-2323-4
1. Guillaume, de Machuat, ca. 1300-1377—Bibliography.
I. Title. II. Series: Garland composer resource manuals ; v. 36.
M1134.G956E3 1995
016.841Ί—dc20 95­35044
CIP
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Cover illustration of Guillaume de Machaut composing a lyric, Remede de For­
tune. BN fr. 1586, fol. 26. Illustration © the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Re­
produced by permission.
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tographs or other illustrative matter, glossaries, and indexes.

Contents
Preface xi
Abbreviations xv
List of Tables xix
I. Biography of Guillaume de Machaut
1. Introduction 3
2. Birth, education 3
3. Ca. 1320-46. Service of John of Luxembourg, king of Bohemia 8
4. 1324. Earliest datable work. Possible contact with Philippe de Vitry. .9
5. 1320s-30s. Works written under the direct patronage of John of
Luxembourg 11
6. Before 1330-40. Ecclesiastical benefices, early residence at Reims . 14
7. Ca. 1340-46. Works written at Reims in the service of John of
Luxembourg 21
8. Ca. 1332-49. Service of Bonne of Luxembourg, duchess of
Normandy 24
9. Ca. 1340-49. Works written for Bonne of Luxembourg 25
10. Ca. 1332-64. Machaut and John, duke of Normandy (from 1350
King John II) 26
11. 1333-72. The career of Jean de Machaut 28
12. Ca. 1352-ca. 1360. Navarrese years 33
13. Machaufs works of the 1350s. The Siege of Reims 38
14. Ca. 1360-77. Works written for John, duke of Berry 40
15. Machaut and King Charles V. Other patrons of the 1360s 42
16. Machaut and Pierre de Lusignan, king of Cyprus 46
17. Machaut and Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy 48
18. 1369-77. Last years 48
II. Machaut's Literary and Musical Legacy
1. Literary legacy in the fourteenth century 53
2. Literary legacy in Spain, 1380-1470 59
3. Literary reputation in the fifteenth century 61
4. Musical reputation 64
5. Modern musical works inspired by Machaut 69
III. The Manuscripts
1. Introduction 73
2. Complete-works manuscripts 77
3. Partial complete-works manuscripts that include works by other
authors 97
4. Manuscripts of individual works and small anthologies of a single
genre 102
5. Anthologies with isolated works by Machaut 105
vii
IV. The Miniatures
1. Introduction 129
2. Index of miniatures and artists by manuscript 132
3. Comparative table of miniatures 139
4. Concordance of miniatures 145
a. Prologue 145
b. Le Dit dou Ver gier 147
c. Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne 149
d. Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre 151
e. Remede de Fortune 152
f. Le Dit dou Lyon 157
g. Le Dit de l'Alerion 163
h. Le Confort d'Ami 165
i. Le Dit de la Fonteinne Amoureuse 170
j. Le Dit de la Harpe 175
k. Le Livre dou Voir Dit 177
1. Le Dit de la Marguerite 183
m. Le Dit de la Rose 183
η. Vezci les biens que ma dame me fait 183
ο. La Prise d Ά lexandre 183
ρ. La Loange des Dames 184
q. Complaintes 185
r. Rondeaux in the Loange des Dames 186
s. Lais 186
t. Motets 187
u. Ballades 187
ν. Rondeaux 188
w. Virelais 188
χ. Appendix: Miniatures for opera dubia in MSS Κ and J 188
V The Narrative Dits
1. The chronology of the dits 189
2. A brief historiography of literary studies 195
3. Le Prologue 203
4. Le Dit dou Vergier 206
5. Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne 206
6. Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre 209
7. Remede de Fortune 212
8. Le Dit dou Lyon 215
9. Le Dit de l'Alerion 217
10. Le Confort d'Ami 218
11. Le Dit de la Fonteinne Amoureuse 220
12. Le Dit de la Harpe 223
13. Le Livre dou Voir Dit 223
14. Le Dit de la Marguerite 231
15. Le Dit de la Rose 232
16. Vezci les biens que ma dame mé fait 232
17. La Prise d'Alexandre 233
18. Le Dit de la Fleur de Lis et de la Marguerite 234
19. Le Dit du Cerf Blanc [opus dubium] 234
VIII
VI. Lyrical Poetry: The Loange des Dames
1. Introduction 237
2. Questions of order in the Loange des Dames 243
3. Table of concordances: ballades, rondeaux, chants royaux 247
4. Bibliographical references to Loange lyrics 256
5. The complaintes 265
VIL The Music
1. The chronology of the music 273
2. A brief historiography of musical studies 277
3. Works in the music fascicles in alphabetical series by title 289
4. Some related fourteenth-century musical works 386
VIII. Discography
1. Introduction 389
2. Performance practice 389
3. The recordings in alphabetical series by title 392
4. Recordings of the Messe de Nostre Dame 423
5. Recordings of some related fourteenth-century musical works 426
6. Musical insertions in the Remede and Voir Dit 428
7. Recommended recordings 428
8. Index of recordings by record label 429
Bibliography 447
Index of manuscripts 621
General index 626
Index of titles, first lines, and refrains 640
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