
Guillaume de Machaut
Secretary, Poet, Musician
Elizabeth Eva Leach
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Monograph - hardback
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List of Illustrations
List of Music Examples
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Life: Guillaume de Machaut's Living
2. Resurrection: Dismembering Machaut
3. Creation: Machaut Making
4. Hope: Loving
5. Fortune: Suffering
6. Death: Remembering Machaut
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Index of Machaut's Lyrics
Format: Monograph - hardback
Size: 240 × 160 × 25 mm
367 pages
ISBN: 9789058678768
Publication: April 14, 2011
Languages: English
Stock item number: 62304
Elizabeth Eva Leach is University Lecturer at the University of Oxford.
Après de nombreuses publications consacrées à divers aspects de la vie et de l'oeuvre de Guillaume de Machaut, Elizabeth Eva Leach publie une remarquable monographie consacrée à celui qui fut sans conteste le plus grand compositeur du xive siècle, mais aussi un poète remarquable. L'originalité de cet ouvrage est d'être rédigé non seulement pour un lectorat musicologique, mais également pour un public plus large et en particulier pour les historiens de la littérature française.
Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans, Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap 2012
Experts
In her impressive book on Guillaume de Machaut, Elizabeth Eva Leach synthesizes a wide body of new scholarship, including historical, literary, musicological, and art historical materials. Leach takes musical works seriously as integral parts of Machaut's artistic program.
Lawrence Earp, University of Wisconsin-;Madison
This must be the best, and is surely the first really complete treatment of Machaut, the first to treat him as poet and musician and courtier, and show why it's important to do so. I have never read anything that did nearly so good a job of showing how musical and poetic language interact.
Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University
Ardis Butterfield, author of Poetry and Music in Medieval France
This book is truly an interdisciplinary endeavor and has much to offer scholars of both music and literature. . . . The book's greatest accomplishment is that it presents Machaut in a complete context-that is, as Leach observes, as someone whose influence among contemporaries can be compared only to an imaginary 19th-century amalgamation of 'Schubert and Goethe . . . [and] one of Napoleon's closest counselors.' Accessible to well-educated but less experienced readers, the book exhibits enough scholarly rigor to satisfy musicologists and literary critics alike. . . . Highly recommended. - Choice