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LOCATION:Birley Room, Hatfield College
SUMMARY:The Enchantment of Song in Guillaume de Machaut
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Porfessor Sarah Kay, New York Univ
 ersity to deliver the latest in the IMRS/IAS "Beauty in the Middle Ages an
 d Renaissance Seminar Series"In the 13th century the lyric undergoes a pro
 cess of disenchantement. Words become disconnected from music and from the
  expression of desire. But this gives rise to a counter mouvement that rea
 ffirms the unicity of song (as opposed to its division into two complement
 ary disciplines, words and music) and its (even dangerously) affective int
 imacy. Guillaume de Machaut manifests this development most fully in his R
 emède de Fortune. Appealing to the models of both Boethius and Orph
 eus, he sets about the seemingly contradictory aims of singing in a way th
 at will be pure song, singing to voice the inspiiration of desire, and sin
 ging as part of an aesthetic that can be formalized and even taught.
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