Medieval Song Network

 
Review of the conference 'Guillaume de Machaut: Music, Image, Text in the Middle Ages', University of Exeter, UK, 29-30 April 2013
 

Sophie Sawicka-Sykes reflects on her experience of adapting one of Chaucer's most challenging Tales.
Go to Retelling the Prioress's Tale (blog post)

Review of the Mellon Research Symposium ‘Machaut in the Book’, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 11-12th April 2013
Kate Maxwell, University of Agder
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Program: Selections from Guillaume de Machaut’s Le Voir Dit, Dufay, Dunstaple, Gombert, Josquin des Prez, Ockeghem.

 For today’s post I had originally intended to review John Toy’s catalogue of liturgical material for English saints in medieval Scandinavian sources from the perspective of my own project on Scandinavian chant, but last week, after whimsically having come to the decision to read through Leo Treitler’s collection of essays, Reflections on Musical Meaning and its Representations, I felt compelled to review that instead and save the other entry for later.

Here at Medieval Song we've developed a bibliography of scholarship on medieval lyric and song. The most recent addition is a discussion of some of the essays in the 2011 University of Exeter book Citation, Intertextuality and Memory in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Volume One, Text, Music and Image from Machaut to Ariosto. We'd like to continue building the bibliography by crowdsourcing it.

As part of the CLIR program of Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies, Stanford University has posted a postdoc position for a Digital Medieval Manuscripts Fellow. The position will be cross-appointed between the English Dept. (working with Elaine Treharne) and the Stanford University Library (working with Benjamin Albritton).

Details of the position and instructions for application can be found at: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/stanford2013

This graduate interdisciplinary conference will be held at Oxford, 10-11 May 2013. CFP still open! Deadline Feb. 2013.

An article in the Flintshire Chronicle says the cast of the 2013 Chester Plays has been chosen and the producers are now looking for young people between the ages of 7 and 17 to act and sing in the plays. Acting workshops will be held on January 12 and 19 at Chester Cathedral.

Check out Elizabeth Eva Leach's review, in Early Music 40.3, of Judith Peraino's book on subjectivity in late trouvère song. The title of Peraino's 2011 book is Giving voice to love: song and self-expression from the troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).