Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1997
Publisher
The Institute of Mediaeval Music
Abstract
Scarcely anywhere else in the repertory of lyric poetry is the identity of the poet and the composer quite as apparent as in the works of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost French poet and musician of the fourteenth century (d1377). His works with music should be approached confidently as integral lyrics, as composite works of poetry and music, because he wrote about the process of providing music for poetry and writing texts to be set to music. Furthermore, he specified the sequence of his own compositions- narrative and lyrical, poetical and musical - all in a single book.
Chapter of
Tradition and Ecstasy: The Agony of the 14th Century
Part of
Claremont Cultural Studies;v.62 no.3
Editor
Nancy van Deusen,
Recommended Citation
Brown, Phyllis and William Peter Mahrt. "The Interplay of Language and Music in Machaut's Virelai 'Foy Porter.'" Tradition and Ecstasy: The Agony of the 14th Century. Ed. Nancy van Deusen. Claremont Cultural Studies 62.3. Ottawa, Canada: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1997. 235-50.
Comments
Republished with permission by author and publisher.