Contents

pp.：  7 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.：  11 – 12

List of Contributors

pp.：  13 – 16

List of Tables, Figures and Examples

pp.：  17 – 20

Introduction

pp.：  21 – 32

Section I Machaut in Perspective

pp.：  33 – 86

Chapter One The Poetic I

pp.：  35 – 52

Chapter Two Guillaume de Machaut and the Forms of Pre-Humanism in Fourteenth-Century France

pp.：  53 – 68

Chapter Three Poet as Musician

pp.：  69 – 86

Section II Select Works in Disciplinary Dialogue

pp.：  87 – 160

Chapter Four “Ma fin est mon commencement”: The Esence of Poetry and Song in Guillaume de Machaut

pp.：  89 – 98

Chapter Five ‘. . . et mon commencement ma fin’: Genre and Machaut’s Musical Language in His Secular Songs

pp.：  99 – 122

Chapter Six Machaut and Debate Poetry

pp.：  123 – 138

Chapter Seven Moving across Media: Machaut’s Lais and the Judgement Tradition

pp.：  139 – 160

Section III Situating Machaut’s Music

pp.：  161 – 258

Chapter Eight Machaut’s Musical Heritage

pp.：  163 – 178

Chapter Nine Self-Citation and Compositional Process in Guillaume de Machaut’s Lyrics with and without Music: The Case of “Dame, se vous n’avez aperceü” (Rondeau 13)

pp.：  179 – 204

Chapter Ten The Motets Read and Heard

pp.：  205 – 228

Chapter Eleven Declamation as Expression in Machaut’s Music

pp.：  229 – 258

Section IV Contextualizing Machaut’s Literature

pp.：  259 – 328

Chapter Twelve Guillaume de Machaut and the Classical Tradition: Individual Talent and (Un)Communal Tradition

pp.：  261 – 280

Chapter Thirteen ‘Laissier le mal, le bien eslire’: History, Alegory, and Ethical Reading in the Works of Guillaume de Machaut

pp.：  281 – 296

Chapter Fourteen History’s Fixers: Informants, Mediators, and Writers in the Prise d’Alexandre

pp.：  297 – 312

Chapter Fifteen Instrumental Comparisons: Machaut’s Shorter Dits

pp.：  313 – 328

Section V Tradition and Reception

pp.：  329 – 406

Chapter Sixteen Guillaume de Machaut’s Lyric Poetry

pp.：  331 – 352

Chapter Seventeen Performing Machaut’s Messe de Notre Dame: From Modernist Allegiances to the Postmodern Hinterland

pp.：  353 – 380

Chapter Eighteen Machaut and His Material Legacy

pp.：  381 – 406

Bibliography

pp.：  407 – 426

Index

pp.：  427 – 434