International Machaut Society
Machaut on the Web
This page provides links to sites relevant to the teaching,
study, and performance of poetic and musical works by Guillaume de
Machaut.
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Contents of this page
Scholarly
essays on Machaut | Short
Machaut Biographies | Reference
Resources | Texts
| Translations
| Illustrations
| Music
Resources | Sound
Clips | Discographies
| Record
Label Information | Machaut
Oddities | Fourteenth-Century
Culture and Politics | Medieval
Studies Sites | Reciprocal
Links | Web
sites of IMS Members |
Scholarly Essays on Machaut
 The Tradition of Courtly
Love Expressed in the Poetry and Music of Guillaume de Machaut,
Elizabeth G. Melillo, c. 1996. This document is also available at its
old
location.
- De
Chant et de Ditté Nouvelle Machaut and the French Ars Nova, Hope
Greenberg, c. 1994
- discussion of Machaut repertory in
the Paduan fragments by Michael Scott Cuthbert. This is chapter 2
of his A.B. honors thesis, " Fragments of Polyphonic Music from the
Abbey of S. Giustina: Codicies, Composers, and Context in Late
Medieval Padua."
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Short Machaut Biographies
- Célébrations
nationales 2000: the birth of Guillaume de Machaut. A biography
(in French) and a jpg image from the Remede de Fortune; text
provided by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet.
- Classical
Composers Database (Knoware)
- Classical
Musician's Dictionary Machaut biography, with MIDI files of
Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure and Agnus Dei, plus a
small gif of the poet.
- Classical.net
biography with short discography
- Classical Music
Pages biography excerpted with permission from New Groves
- Bob Sarkissian's
Machaut page with a short biography and at least one link to MIDI
files. Check for ongoing updates!
- Internet
Public Library's Machaut blurb with a real audio excerpt of the
Mass.
- Machaut
discography's biography, a preface to the immense Machaut
discography-with-text site by Pierre-F. Roberge and Todd M. McComb.
- Essentials
of Music biography of Machaut.
- Dr. Estrella's
Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers, with a short
biography and a few well-chosen links.
- Infoplease.com Kid's Almanac
entry for Machaut. Not as kid-accessible as you'd expect.
- A short bio in
French hosted at the BNF.
- Biographisch-Bibliographischen
Kirchenlexikons entry on Machaut (in German)
- Karadar
biographical entry in Italian
- Cecilia
y Candelario Martmnez's entry in Spanish.
- Wielka Internetowa
Encyklopedia Multimedialna biographical entry on Machaut (in
Polish).
Reference Resources
- The IMS Machaut
bibliography-- text by R. Barton Palmer
- The IMS Machaut
bibliography-- music by Kevin N. Moll
- The IMS at Kalamazoo abstracts and
session outlines
- Submit your questions to a music librarian
- Visit the Music Library
Association
- The American Musicological
Society
- The On-Line Reference Book for
Medieval Studies, or start at the ORB
Music Index or the ORB Late
Medieval France pages.
- Indiana University's Early
Music listing, or start at their excellent music
resources page.
- Machaut
Discography, the most useful Machaut site on the whole entire web.
Texts
- Texts of
Machaut's music, available on the Machaut discography site thanks
to the hard work of Todd M. McComb.
- Quant je suis, text
and translation.
- Foy
porter, including some background on courtly love. Scroll down to
find the Machaut discussion and text.
- Blanche com
lys, from Petit Traité de Versification Française. You may have to
use your browser's "find" command to locate the text. (A search for
"machaut" will get you to the right portion of the page.) Elsewhere on
the site, they have a
Machaut page in frames, with access to the Ballade "Plourez,
dames," the Rondeau "Sans cuer, dolens...," the Lay de Bonne
Esperance, and the Rondeau "Puis qu'en oubli"
- Cedille.com
has posted Blanche com lys, Je maudis l'heure and Ne
quiers voir.
- The doublepictures
Machaut page provides a brief study guide in French, texts to
Ma fin, Qui n'auroit autre deport and Dame de qui
toute ma joie vient plus a discography.
- No longer available on the
web, but available as a CD- ROM, the Hypertext
Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the Duchess contains text
and excerpted translations of Machaut's Fonteine amoreuse,
Jugement du roi de Behaigne, Remede de Fortune, plus the
Balade note 8 and excerpts of the Lay de confort, according to
their posted
title page.
The
edition of Machaut's texts made by Prosper Tarbé in 1849
is now available on-line. On the whole, the later editions are better (see Barton Palmer's bibliography for details),
but this is useful as well.
Translations
- Je vivroie liement,
with text, translation, and sound-clip from Mirror of Narcissus
- Dame,
mon cuer en vous remaint from The
Medieval Lyric site. Includes image, score, translation, and
QuickTime 4 audio rendition.
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Illustrations
- Machaut,
Oeuvres, B.N. Fr. 1586, a page of Machaut's music from the Library
of Congress Exhibit, Treasures from the Bibliothèque nationale de
France: Monarchs and
Monasteries
- An excerpt of Machaut's text from Machaut, Oeuvres, B.N. Fr.
1586, this copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France; the
description (in French) is item 24 in their on-line exhibit catalogue for
"Naissance de la Culture Française: Trésors de la Bibliothèque
nationale de France."
- Classical Music
Pages miniature from Paris BN fr. 1586, fol. E: "Nature introduces
her children to the poet." (No copyright information provided for the
illustration.)
- Classical
Musician's Dictionary Machaut biography, a small gif of the poet.
- jpeg
of Dame, mon cuer from the Lionheart
recording of Remede de Fortune.
- The
Medieval Lyric site includes an unlabeled
miniature to accompany the score of "Dame mon cuer en vous
remaint." Also contains images of MS
C, fol. 56v and MS
C, fol. 57r
- Images of various entertainers
, including musicians, from the age of Charles V.
Music Resources
- Digital Image Archive of Medieval
Music, a site which aims to include all fragmentary sources of
British pre-Reformation polyphony. Not strictly "Machauvian," but of
potential interest anyway.
- Medieval
Notation links from Klemm Music.
- Chantez-vous Francais?,
with information on medieval French pronunciation.
- Dame,
mon cuer en vous remaint from The
Medieval Lyric site. Includes image, score, translation, and
QuickTime 4 audio rendition.
- Goldberg: the early music and
baroque music portal. Information about early and baroque music:
news, new releases, festivals, concerts, performers, associations,
masterclasses, competitions, luthiers, printed music.
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Also check out the concert listings on our Events
page.
Sound Clips
- Christian Brassy's MIDI
files (also located here) with extensive
Machaut
offerings (currently 23 individual works!) under the category
TEXTES ET MUSIQUES (midi). (Sorry, the site uses frames--you'll
have to navigate.) Some of the choices in ficta are idiosyncratic, so
the novice listener should also be sure to consult more traditional
renditions of these works.
- Internet
Renaissance Band's Medieval Music page, with links to Machaut's
De bonté, de valour and Dous amis. All selections
provided by Curtis Clark.
- Machaut's Agnus
Dei from the Classical Midi Archive.
- Internet
Public Library's Machaut blurb with a real audio excerpt of the
Mass.
- Lionheart
recording of Remede de Fortune, with a RealAudio excerpt of
Rose liz.
- Internet
Renaissance Band offers MIDI files of De bonté, de valour
and Dous amis
- Douce dame
jolie in a version created for the Society for Creative
Anachronism. They provide both MIDI and gif, compressed tiff and
gzipped postscript versions of the score on their "page 2."
- Bob Sarkissian's
Machaut page with a short biography and at least one link to MIDI
files. Check for ongoing updates!
- Classical Midi Archives, with
an early music section
featuring (among many other things) Machaut's Agnus Dei
(P.Drum), Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure (A.Conger), and Qui
es promesses-Ha! Fortune-Et non est que adjuvet (G.Cataldo).
- Classical
Musician's Dictionary Machaut biography, with MIDI files of
Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure and Agnus Dei, plus a
small gif of the poet.
- Lasse!
comment oublieray / Se j'aim / Pour quoy me bat mes maris? (Motet
M16). MIDI file by José Oscar de Almeida Marques.
Discographies and Reviews
- Machaut
discography, the pre-eminent starting point for Machaut
discography, with texts for each work and a listing of recordings,
plus a brief biography. We all owe a debt to the two authors,
Pierre-F. Roberge (discography) and Todd M. McComb (texts). The site
lists works alphabetically with the exception of the Messe
which is listed first. When recordings are available, the description
is cross-linked to the appropriate site. This site is flat-out the
most significant web-based tool for finding info on Machaut
recordings!
- FAQ CD
Directory's Machaut entry, an extensive discography. (Note: emfaq
does not typically provide links to other web sites for these
recordings.)
- Early Music
Recordings List by Todd M. McComb, including a section on Machaut
recordings.
- The doublepictures
Machaut page contains another brief discography
Record Label Information
- To find a record citation, start at
Machaut
discography, a work-in-progress by Pierre-F. Roberge with
extensive cross-links that provide ordering information. If that
doesn't list the work you are interested in, check FAQ CD Directory and
type Machaut. The latter site provides access to an extensive
discography with 73 clickable entries (and information on other
recordings that lack separate web postings.) Emfaq provides
bibliographic records, an index of each recording, and discussions of
the performances. (It does not provide links to other web sites for
these recordings, however.)
- Hyperion records seems
to have eliminated its catalogue entry for Machaut, but a site search
still links to the following items:
- Messe de
Notre Dame, Lay de la Fonteinne, Ma fin est ma commencement,
Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier, dir.
- Mirror of
Narcissus, Gothic Voices, Christopher Page, dir.
- Other Hyperion recordings with
Machaut selections:
- The
Medieval Romantics
- The
Emma Kirkby Collection
- Sacred
and Secular Music of Six Centuries
- Lancaster
and Valois
- The
Study of Love
- The
Spirits of England and France, 1
- The
Spirits of England and France, 3
- Harmonia Mundi has eliminated all
their short blurbs, but does list the Ensemble Organum version of the
Messe.
- Remede de
Fortune from The Medieval Lyric. It is available on cassette;
accompanying anthology contains "Slightly abridged original text with
facing-line English translations and modern transcriptions of the
music for the lyric pieces. All lyric inserts are recorded on the
cassettes, with both 2-voice and 4-voice versions of the balade "Dame
de qui."" Intended for teaching purposes. A Medieval Lyric CD-ROM,
still in preparation, will also contain an extended segment on
Machaut.
- 'A Distant Mirror:
Music of the 14th Century', an anthology CD by the Folger Consort
on the Delos label
Machaut Oddities
- town charter
(sorry, it's now a site based on frames; head for "histoire" and look
for Le Moyen Age) from Jean de Boheme for Bastogne (1332); work
typical of Machaut's "day job" (though not necessarily drawn up by
him, of course). You may have to search for the start of the charter;
it is imbedded in a history of the town, and begins, "Jean, par la
grâce de Dieu, roi de Bohême et de Pologne, comte de Luxembourg, etc."
Thanks to John Broglio for calling my attention to this link.
-
Fourteenth-Century Culture and Politics
- Charles IV of
Luxemburg
- Charles V
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France's web
page
- NetSERF, organizes over 1,000
medieval links. Both informative and visually pleasing. You'll want to
dwaddle here.
- Literature
of the French Middle Ages. A digest of TennesseeBob's (Robert
Peckham's) links created and maintained by David A. Gatwood.
- Decameron
Web, which includes information on fourteenth century society and
culture
- The Engines of Our
Ingenuity: 1370, an encapsulation of scientific progress circa
1370, written by John H. Lienhard. Or see th3e more broad-based medieval
technology timeline by Paul Gans.
Medieval Studies Sites
- The WWW Virtual Library for
Medieval Studies The Labyrinth, with search capabilites by
categories, types of materials, and keywords.
- ORB--Online Reference Book for
Medieval Studies
- Medieval Academic
Discussion Groups, a lengthy listing of medieval academic
discussion groups.
- NetSERF; organizes over 1,000
medieval links; this site is sponsored by the Department of History at
Catholic University. Both informative and visually pleasing. You'll
want to dwaddle here.
- French
Medieval History and Culture. Access to information on the French
Middle Ages, divided into general sites, historical maps, and other.
Maintained by Robert D. Peckham as part of TennesseeBob's
Famous French Links
- Literature
of the French Middle Ages A digest of TennesseeBob's (Robert
Peckham's) links created and maintained by David A. Gatwood.
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France's web
page
- Early Music America
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Reciprocal Links
Thanks to the people who've added us to their lists.
- Classical Net
- Academic Info: Music
History & Studies; we're under Organizations & Centers.
- Goldberg: the early music and
baroque music portal. Information about early and baroque music:
news, new releases, festivals, concerts, performers, associations,
masterclasses, competitions, luthiers, printed music.
Web Sites of IMS Members
- Cynthia J. Cyrus
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