International Machaut Society
We've moved!
These pages have moved south from Vanderbilt, their original host, to
Loyola University New Orleans. As the new webmaster for the
International Machaut Society, I'd like publicly and enthusiastically to
thank Cynthia Cyrus for developing, maintaining, and hosting these
pages. I'll try to keep them up as well as I can, but the creative work
is all Cynthia's.
Please feel free to contact me with questions, comments, reports of
broken links, suggestions of new things to add, or anything else.
Alice V. Clark
College of Music, Loyola University New Orleans
avclark@loyno.edu
Who are we?
The International Machaut Society is a not-for-profit scholarly
organization founded in 1985 and devoted to the study, criticism, performance, research, and
exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of the poet and
composer Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) and their manuscript and
performance traditions.
Fields of inquiry fostered by the Society include, but are not
limited to, literary history and criticism; music history, criticism,
and theory; the performing arts; art history; and codicology. Study and
performance of works of other poets and composers or of other
performance and manuscript traditions are also included within
activities sponsored by the Society insofar as they contribute
significantly to study of the background, context, or influence of the
works of Machaut.
The Society encourages membership with the broadest possible
international representation and currently boasts members from almost
every continent. Any person may become a member of the International
Machaut Society upon payment of dues. Right
now we are unfortunately only able to accept U. S. funds, but we are
looking into ways to receive other currencies.
What we do
The Society meets annually at the International Congress on
Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. At this convention the Society
ordinarily sponsors several sessions of scholarly papers and discussion,
plus a business meeting and luncheon. For more information on our plans
for the next meeting, check here.
This year we will also sponsor two sessions at the International
Medieval Congress in Leeds; for more information see
this page.
In addition to this web site, which includes a page of links to other
Machaut web sites, the Society publishes a newsletter and
sponsors the Sarah Jane
Williams Award, given every other year.
The Newsletter
Members receive an annual issue of Ymaginer, the Newsletter of
the International Machaut Society. Submit conference news, abstracts,
reviews, comments, letters to the editor, and notices of Machaut papers,
publications and performances to the Executive Secretary.
Sarah Jane Williams Award
The society offers the Sarah Jane Williams Award, a $500 prize in
memory of the founder of the society. The award, given every other year,
is designed to promote the study, criticism, performance, research, and
exchange of ideas related to all aspects of the works of Guillaume de
Machaut. Applications are due by 1 March 2007 for the next award.
For further information, see the formal
announcement of this prize.
Announcement--We Win Prizes!
The IMS Web Site was awarded a Links2go "medieval music" award in
2001. This award is a statistical measure of our "connectedness." In
other words, it is a measure of how many external websites link to ours.
At the time of the award, we were the third most frequently cited site
for Medieval Music on the World Wide Web.
In the past several years, we have also won several other prizes. The
IMS runs one of the few web sites to receive a Gloriana Class Act award,
awarded by Elizabeth G. Melillo, Ph.
D.. This award is given in recognition of valuable content on WWW
sites. Though design is also a consideration, the criteria emphasize a
contribution to the internet that is original, and of artistic or
intellectual significance.
The IMS also notes that it is the entry point for Machaut research on
the DMOZ open
directory project. As they describe it, "the Open Directory
Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the
web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors." Their motto is
"humans do it better."
We were also one of the sites honored by the Triangle d'or in the
Liste de diffusion Formatic 2000.
Bibliographies and Abstracts
Thanks to the work of our members, the IMS now sponsors two
bibliographies: one by R. Barton Palmer on texts and
one by Kevin N. Moll on music.
We also provide a schedule and abstracts for recent papers given at
Society meetings in Kalamazoo and Leeds; see here for details.
Finding materials by or about Machaut
The best single source for information about Machaut, his
manuscripts, and his works is Lawrence Earp, Guillaume de Machaut: A
Guide to Research, Garland Composer Resource Manuals 36 (New York
and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995). (Note that Garland books
are now handled through Routledge Publishers.)
A number of the narrative poems have been edited and translated; many
of those are also available through Garland/Routledge. See Barton
Palmer's bibliography
for details.
Machaut's music exists in two editions. The better one is Friedrich
Ludwig's, which is unfortunately out of print, but Leo Schrade's is
available in five reprint volumes. Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre is
currently offering those five reprint volumes for 175 euros; single
volumes are also available. Consult their web site for
details.
We aren't able to maintain a discography of Machaut's works, though
we heartily recommend the one in Larry Earp's book as a starting point.
We're glad to hear about recordings devoted wholly or largely to
Machaut's works, and we may highlight some on this page from time to
time, but not in a systematic way.
To join us:
Dues are currently $10.00 (U.S.) per year (or $5 for the unemployed);
at this point we are unfortunately only able to accept U. S. funds.
Checks for dues should be made payable to The International Machaut
Society. You may pay at the annual Business Meeting at the
International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May, or send
your check to the Executive Secretary. Please include your name, your snail-mail address, e-mail
address (and an indication of whether or not you want to be listed on
the on-line page of members), and your institutional affiliation if
appropriate.
To contact us:
| IMS Executive Secretary |
IMS Webmaster |
Janice Zinser
(janice.c.zinser@oberlin.edu)
International Machaut Society
51709 Becker Road
Wakeman, OH
44889 |
Alice V. Clark
(avclark@loyno.edu)
College
of Music and Fine Arts
Loyola University New Orleans
Campus Box 8
6363
St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118-6195
Phone:
504/865-3065
Fax:
504/865-2852 |
E-mail us