Dr Yolanda Plumley

Conference Papers presented since 2000

‘Musicians in Laon circa 1400’
(La musique dans les villes de France à la Renaissance, international conference, Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, March 2000)

‘Crossing the Channel: French Lyrics in England in the early Fifteenth Century’
(with Margaret Connolly: Patrons, Authors and Workshops: Books and Book production in Paris circa 1400, interdisciplinary conference, Liverpool, July 2000)

‘From Court to Cathedral: Musicians and the Politics of Princely Power’
(Music at Court and City, international music conference, Novacella-Neustidt, July 2000)

‘Antiquarianism in the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and the Ownership of the Chantilly Codex’
(with Anne Stone: Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Oxford, August 2000)

‘Playing the Citation Game in the Late-Fourteenth Century Song’
(American Musicological Society Conference, Toronto, November 2000; co-organization of session ‘Performing Ars Subtilior’, in collaboration with early music ensemble, The Orlando Consort)

‘The Marriage of Words and Music: Musique Naturele and Musique Artificiele in Machaut’s Sans cuer, dolens (Rondeau 4)’
(Guillaume de Machaut, interdisciplinary conference, Oxford, July 2001)

‘Narrating the Past: Owning a Late Medieval Music Manuscript in the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’
(with Anne Stone: Early Book Society, interdisciplinary conference, Cork, July 2001)

‘The Provenance and Dating of Chantilly 564’
(with Anne Stone: The Chantilly Codex Revisited / Nouveaux regards sur le manuscrit Chantilly 564, conference, Tours, September 2001)

‘French Songs in Florence c1400’
(Conference-workshop on the San Lorenzo manuscript, held at Dozza, July 2003)

‘The Collective Memory: Citation and Compositional Process in Machaut’s Lyrics’
(and organization of the relevant interdisciplinary panel ‘Intertextuality and Memory in the Late Middle Ages’, presented at the Renaissance Society of America annual conference, New York, April 2004)

‘Reworking and the Compositional Process in Machaut’s poetry and music’
(American Musicological Society Conference, Seattle, November 2004)

‘Artists, Patrons and the New Year’s Song in Late Medieval France and Italy’
(Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Tours, July 2005)

‘Songs and Lyrics for the New Year in late Fourteenth- and early Fifteenth-Century France and Italy’
(International Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, May 2006; part of a session sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies at Exeter University)

'Cordier’s Picture-Songs and the Relationship between the Oxford and Chantilly Song Repertories' (with Dr Anne Stone)
(Conference on Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Music, Novacella Neustift, Brixen-Bressanone, July 2006)

'New Years songs in late medieval France and Italy'
(International Medieval Conference, Leeds, July 2006; part of two sessions on Performing Aristocratic Court Culture sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies at Exeter University)

'Citation, Allusion et Portrait du Prince: peinture, parole, et musique'
International conference, Froissart à la cour de Béarn: l'écrivain, les arts et le pouvoir, Pau, October 2006)

'Whose Voice is it Anyway? Songs within Songs in the Age of Machaut'
(International conference, Etymologies of Medieval Song, University of Pennsylvania, February 2008)

'Machaut meets his Mates: Masculine Rivalries and Poetic Exchange in the Voir Dit and Loange des Dames'
(Plainsong and Medieval Music Society conference, Bristol University, April 2008)

Guest Lectures since 2000

‘Immigrant Repertories: French Lyrics in England in the Early-Fifteenth Century’
(with Margaret Connolly: Representations of Gender and Ethnicity, Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies Seminar, University College Cork, November 2000)

‘La musique en Europe pendant le Grand Schisme’
(illustrated by the Orlando Consort, Opéra d’Avignon, October 2002)

‘Intertextual Play in Fourteenth-Century French Songs: Citation, Homage, Chronology’
(Villa I Tatti, University of Harvard, Florence, April 2003)

'New Years Songs in late medieval France and Italy'
(Medieval History Department, University of St Andrews, October 2006)

'New Years Songs in late medieval France and Italy'
(Music Department, King's College, London University, January 2007)