MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

LEADER: 02441cam a2200325 a 4500
001 012707004-4
005 20110601103323.0
008 110105s2011 nyua b 001 0beng
010 $a 2011000393
020 $a9780801449338 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0801449332 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 0 $aocn687614512
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dBWX$dCDX
042 $apcc
050 00 $aML410.G966$bL23 2011
082 00 $a841/.1$aB$222
100 1 $aLeach, Elizabeth Eva.
245 10 $aGuillaume de Machaut :$bsecretary, poet, musician /$cElizabeth Eva Leach.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell University Press,$c2011.
300 $axv, 367 p. :$bill., music ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-358) and indexes.
505 0 $aLife : Guillaume de Machaut's living -- Resurrection : dismembering Machaut -- Creation : Machaut making -- Hope : loving -- Fortune : suffering -- Death : remembering Machaut.
520 $a"At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a book that encompasses all aspects of his work, illuminating it in a distinctively interdisciplinary light. The author provides a comprehensive picture of Machaut's artistry, reviews the documentary evidence about his life, charts the different agendas pursued by modern scholarly disciplines in their rediscovery and use of specific parts of his output, and delineates Machaut's own poetic and material presentation of his authorial persona.
520 $aLeach treats Machaut's central poetic themes of hope, fortune, and death, integrating the aspect of Machaut's multimedia art that differentiates him from his contemporaries' treatment of similar thematic issues: music. In restoring the centrality of music in Machaut's poetics, arguing that his words cannot be truly understood or appreciated without the additional layers of meaning created in their musicalization, Leach makes a compelling argument that musico-literary performance occupied a special place in the courts of fourteenth-century France."--Pub. desc.
600 00 $aGuillaume,$cde Machaut,$dapproximately 1300-1377.
650 0 $aMusic$y500-1400$xHistory and criticism
899 $a415_565552
988 $a20110307
049 $aHMUU
906 $0DLC