Guillaume de Machaut and ReimsContext and Meaning in his Musical Works

'... impressive addition indeed to the bibliography on this composer ... I applaud her fascinating interpretative work ... this undeniably full and rewarding book is sure to stimulate debate and open new avenues of research for many decades to come.' Journal of Plainsong & Medieval Music

'Anne W. Robertson's book is simply brilliant and undoubtedly one of the most important studies of the music of the late medieval era ...' Early Music Magazine

'A real strength of this book is its wealth of careful research into culture and ideas ... this skilful book has a somewhat hybrid quality. It presents a wealth of research about the cultural environment within which Machaut and his Reims contemporaries lived and provides extremely useful materials, such as complete texts and English translations of all the Machaut motets. But it also poses intriguing historiographic questions about interpretative reconstruction of a composer's motivations and intentions through circumstantial inferences - a difficult enough task even when there is more concrete documentary information than exists for Guillaume de Machaut ... will resonate through scholarship for years to come.' Music and Letters