IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 1507: Citation and Allusion in Music and Text in 14th-Century Songs
Thursday 10 July 2008, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | International Machaut Society |
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Organiser: | Yolanda Plumley, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter |
Moderator/Chair: | R. Barton Palmer, Department of English, Clemson University, South Carolina |
Paper 1507-a | Citational Practices in the 1320s-50s: Machaut's Contemporaries and the Emergence of the Ars nova Song (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Music, Performance Arts - General, Social History |
Paper 1507-b | A Text Archive of 14th-Century French Lyrics and its Application to the Study of Citational Practices (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Music, Performance Arts - General, Social History |
Paper 1507-c | Dialectic, Debate, and Mensuration in Machaut's Lais' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Music, Performance Arts - General, Social History |
Abstract | This session grows out of a major AHRC project run at the University of Exeter by Yolanda Plumley, with Giuliano Di Bacco, on citation and allusion in late medieval French songs and motets. Papers investigate the extent and nature of citational practice in lyrics (with and without music) by Machaut and his contemporaries, and how to locate and interpret such borrowings. Case studies will highlight the significance of citation for our |