Manuscripts, Music, Machaut: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Earp

Summary This multidisciplinary volume celebrates the scholarship and career of Lawrence Earp, whose work has profoundly shaped the fields of Machaut studies, musicology, codicology, and fourteenth-century studies in general. For over four decades, Earp's meticulous scholarship and generosity in collaboration have been a constant inspiration for medieval scholars, students, and colleagues alike. The twenty-six innovative essays herein gratefully acknowledge his influence and showcase a variety of fresh approaches. Recognizing both the breadth and depth of Earp's work, the sections of this book are devoted to bibliography, historiography, literature, art history, and several musicological topics. Many of the chapters focus on the oeuvre of Guillaume de Machaut, but readers will also find explorations on Hildegard of Bingen, Philippe de Vitry, child performers in medieval theater, notation, genre, motets from the late thirteenth to the early fifteenth centuries, and polyphony in Italy and England. Made possible by Earp's foundational and guiding work, this amply illustrated volume invites future interdisciplinary research. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Jared C. Hartt, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, Benjamin L. Albritton Guiding Research 1. A Guide to Research: 'je vous tiens pour ma guide', Helen J. Swift 2. Guillaume de Machaut: The Greatest Fourteenth-Century Poet and Composer of the Twenty-First Century, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel 3. The Impact of Hildegard of Bingen's Bibliographers and Catalogers, Jennifer Bain 4. Child Performers on the Medieval French Stage: A Review of the Published Evidence, Julie Singer (Re)examining and (Re)assessing the Fourteenth Century 5. Guillaume de Machaut and Yolande of Flanders, Andrew Wathey 6. Ex historia Guillelmi di Mascandio: Machaut in the Annales Hannoniae of Jacques de Guise, Benjamin L. Albritton 7. The Fourteenth-Century Polyphonic Mass Ordinary: A Nascent Meta-Genre, Kevin N. Moll 8. Classical Vitry/Romantic Machaut, Anna Zayaruznaya Reading Machaut 9. Machaut's Dit dou Vergier and Prologue: Some Thoughts, R. Barton Palmer 10. Machaut as Poet Figure in the Prise d'Alexandre, Kevin Brownlee 11. The Poetics of destour and ordenance in Machaut's Lyrico-Narrative dits, Anne-H l ne Miller 12. Silencing the Sirens and Rethinking Masculinity in Machaut's Voir dit, Deborah McGrady Image and Illumination 13. Fine Feathered Friends, or, Machaut and the Magicians, Kathleen Wilson Ruffo 14. Notes on Reconstructing the Pictorial Program in a Mutilated Machaut Manuscript, Domenic Leo 15. Seeing Sens: A Picture of Two Guillaumes and Two Brothers?Elizabeth Eva Leach Machaut Musicology 16. Singing from the Source: Performance Markings in Machaut Manuscript G, Uri Smilansky 17. Machaut on the Loose in Italy: Two Case Studies, Yolanda Plumley and Anne Stone 18. Making Song Speak: Machaut's ars nova Word Setting, David Maw 19. To See or Not to See: Machaut's Motet 11, Dame, je sui/ Fins cuers dous/ Fins cuers dous, Jacques Boogaart Motets and Chant 20. Polyphony from and for Refrains in Dance-Song Motets, Catherine A. Bradley 21. Another Look at Vos/Gratissima, Richard Dudas 22. Dolor meus: Competing Visions of Suffering in a Pair of Motets, Alice V. Clark 23. Two 'Textless' Elaborations of Chant from the Ivrea Codex, Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert Music in Medieval England 24. Tempus, Tempo, and Insular Semibreves, Karen Desmond 25. Washington, Library of Congress, M2.1 .C6 1400 Case: A Neglected English Fragment, Margaret Bent 26. A Missing Middle-Voice Melody: Reconstructing the Tenor of A solis ortus/Salvator mundi Domine, Jared C. Hartt Bibliography General Index Index of Manuscripts