Machaut, chaucer and the intertextual dit helen phillips for a work that is not a translation, chaucers book if the duchess c. Tels rit au main qui au soir pleure et tels cuide quamours labeure. The new art january, 2017 tenri cultural institute. Classical musicians dictionary machaut biography, with midi files of rose. If you use and like, thank you to consider support donation.
A language code in a blue rectangle like eng indicates that a translation. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not. The remede is hereafter cited parenthetically in the text as re i have discussed the relationship be. The narrator flees from her and comes to a garden where hope consoles him and teaches him how to be a good lover. Bostonbased blue heron present a pocket version of the remede including narration. Performers would likely alternate these polyphonic settings with monophonic chant, though it would also be possible simply to repeat the polyphony. A prose translation followed, read by jason mcstoots. Complimenting their performance, fitch says the orlandos project and enunciate machaut s french so well that one rarely reaches. To quote gilbert reaney in his book on machaut oxford studies 1971 it is a rambling love story, in which the poet manages to give examples of the principal types of lyric song he composed, lay, ballade, rondeau, virelai. Bostonbased blue heron present a pocket version of the remede. This critical edition of the old french text comes with an informative introduction that emphasizes machauts influence on chaucer the volume is part of the chaucer library from the university of georgia press. As fabrice fitch of gramophone notes, five volumes in, hyperions machaut series shows no sign of running out of puff. The remede is the only work by machaut that presents narration and notated lyric insertions as a complete and unified creation. It is exceptional because it contains music outside the music section.
The idea of a narrative with interpolated songs has deep roots, going back to boethiuss consolation of philosophy, which mixes prose and metrical verse. Rosenberg, margaret switten, and gerard le vos, eds. International machaut society links loyola university new orleans. The following pages are in this category, out of total. International machaut society machaut bibliographytexts. For 20 years we provide a free and legal service for free sheet music without asking you anything in exchange. All of these are performed with instrumental accompaniment lute, vielle, symphonia, harp, which works especially well for the solo songs ill admit i cant listen to solo voice a capella for very long. Blue herons presentation is a multimedia version of the remede, with narration, projected surtitles and illustrations from manuscripts curated by. Though his surname most likely derives from the nearby town of machault, 30 km east of rheims in the ardennes region, most scholars believe his birthplace was, in fact, rheims he was employed as secretary to john i, count of luxemburg and king of bohemia, from 23 to 46 and also became a canon 37. Machaut sets each of these four melodic units a b c and c only once. Usage attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. Program notes by sarah davies, and texts in french with english translation 17 p. Machaut, chaucer and the intertexual dit fortune and the lady.
In the first kyrie statement, the pitches of the chant are distributed in rhythmic units four measures long in transcription. Countertenor martin near and scott metcalfe on a medieval fiddle set the. To reprint and distribute this authors work for concert programs, cd booklets, etc. Marvelous machaut the boston musical intelligencer. As such, they form a foundation stone to centuries of both melodyoriented song and contrapuntal polyphony that come thereafter. This performance includes instrumental improvisation in some selections. Even casual listeners will notice that each of the three lines of music has its own text one rapid and wordy, one moderate in speed, and one just a few words long.
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