Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in His Musical Works

Guillaume de Machaut, fourteenth-century French composer and poet, wrote the first polyphonic Mass and many other important musical works. Friend of royalty, prelates, noted poets, and musicians, Machaut was a cosmopolitan presence in late medieval Europe. He also served as canon of the cathedral of Reims, the coronation site of French kings. From this penetrating study of his music, Machaut emerges as a composer deeply involved in the great crises of his day, one who skillfully and artfully expressed profound themes of human existence in ardent music and poetry.

Author: Anne Walters Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780521036085

About the Author
Walters Robertson, Anne: - Anne Walters Robertson is Professor of Music at The University of Chicago. She is the author of The Service Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages (1991). She was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1995.

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