This website presents an online searchable corpus of late-medieval French lyrics, predominantly drawn from the fourteenth-century song and motet repertory, most of which have been relatively little studied by scholars, both within and outside musicology.
The collection includes the contents of a few complete MSS, as well as selections from other significant collections, and the works of the major French poet-composer of the time, Guillaume de Machaut. Work is ongoing to add to the corpus of lyrics ca. 1280-1420 over time.
The content of the Archive in this preliminary version can be accessed by browsing the incipits of the texts and by searching the whole repository with simple queries. More browsable lists and extended search capabilities will be added over time.
The Archive was produced as part of the AHRC-funded project entitled Citation and Allusion in the Ars Nova French Chanson and Motet: Memory, Tradition, Innovation, led by Dr. Yolanda Plumley, Department of History, University of Exeter.
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