Cross-posted--apologies for duplication
International Machaut Society at Kalamazoo
Call for Papers
Following are brief descriptions of the three sessions that will be
sponsored by the International Machaut Society at the next meeting of
the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2-5 May
2002). Paper proposals should be sent no later than 15 September
2001 to:
Alice V. Clark
College of Music
Loyola University New Orleans
Campus Box 8
6363 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
e-mail: <avclark@loyno.edu>
fax: 504/865-2852
For further information on each session, you may also contact the
individuals listed below.
Machaut and his Intellectual Milieu (Nicole Lassahn,
<nelassah@midway.uchicago.edu>)
This session is meant as a forum for investigation of Machaut's
interaction - broadly conceived -- with his context(s) and
contemporaries. For example, we would welcome comparative work on
Machaut and other authors and musicians from his time, particularly
Chaucer, Vitry, and Froissart. Papers might also explore questions
of literary and musical sources and influences, including either his
influence on others, or his adaptation of his own sources. Papers
might also investigate political questions and court contexts or
issues of patronage. "Intellectual milieu" might also provide a
means for talking about Machaut's audience: his readership,
audiences and venues for performance of his musical compositions, and
issues of manuscript transmission.
Teaching Machaut (Margaret Hasselman, <mhasselm@vt.edu>, and Janice
C. Zinser, <janice.c.zinser@oberlin.edu>)
For this session, we welcome papers addressing how you have
successfully taught Machaut, especially the Remede de Fortune. We are
interested in papers focussing on
musical or literary aspects or both, emphasizing new approaches. We
are particularly interested in approaches that 1) are useful in an
interdisciplinary setting, or 2) use various multimedia materials,
such as the NEH-Mt. Holyoke Medieval Lyric materials. Papers should
be between 15 and 20 minutes in length.
Machaut and Dissonance (Kevin N. Moll, <mollk@mail.ecu.edu>)
This session proposes to explore the concept of "dissonance" in the
oeuvre of Machaut and his close contemporaries. In Western music
generally, the function of dissonance has been to create harmonic
tension or motion, and its resolution has been a constant element of
style, typically constituting a cornerstone of harmonic theory and
practice in various periods. One of the most intriguing aspects of
the Ars nova repertoire, however, is precisely that its practical
conception of dissonance treatment has proved to be notoriously
intransigent to account for, and this is especially true in the music
of Machaut himself. By extension, dissonance can also refer to the
lack of harmony in non-musical spheres (e.g., poetic structure or
content), again presumably requiring (though perhaps not always
successfully achieving) resolution. We therefore encourage
considerations of all aspects of Machaut's treatment of dissonance,
musical and otherwise.
-- ******************************* Alice V. Clark College of Music Loyola University New Orleans Campus Box 8 6363 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 504/865-3065 avclark@loyno.edu
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