Daniel Leech-Wilkinson: Publications

Books, Multimedia, Book contributions, Refereed papers, Edited music, Book, music and record reviews, Miscellaneous, Broadcasting

Books

On early music

Compositional Techniques in the Four-Part Isorhythmic Motets of Philippe de Vitry and his Contemporaries (Garland, 1989)
Machaut's Mass: An Introduction (Oxford University Press 1990, pb 1992)
Guillaume de Machaut, Le Livre dou Voir Dit (with Barton Palmer) (Garland, 1998)
The Modern Invention of Medieval Music (Cambridge University Press, 2002; paperback edition 2007). Royal Philharmonic Society Book Award 2002

On performance

The Changing Sound of Music: approaches to the study of recorded musical performances (CHARM, 2009) ISBN 1-897791-21-6
(ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (ed. Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and John Rink) (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Multimedia

On early music

Multimedia Introduction to Medieval Music (TLTP, 1996)

On performance

Nicholas Cook and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Techniques for analysing recordings: an introduction (CHARM, 2009)
Roger Beardsley and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, A brief history of recording (CHARM, 2009)

Book contributions

On early music

Entries in ed. Iain Fenlon, Cambridge Music Manuscripts 900-1700, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp.6-10, 13-17, 47-51, 75-77, 100-103, 107-110
`Ars Antiqua - Ars Nova - Ars Subtilior', ed. James McKinnon, Man and Music I: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Macmillan-Granada 1990, pp. 218-40
`The good, the bad and the boring', in The Dent Everyman Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music, Dent 1992 (pb OUP, 1997), pp. 3-14
`Improvised and written polyphony' in C Meyer, ed., Les Polyphonies orales dans l'Histoire et dans les Traditions européennes encore vivantes, Royaumont, 1993, pp. 170-82
'Yearning for the sound of medieval music' in ed. Annette Kreutziger-Herr and Dorothea Redepenning, Mittelalter Sehnsucht?: Texte des interdisziplinären Symposions zur musikalischen Mittelalterrezeption an der Universität Heidelberg, April 1998 (Kiel, 2000) 295-317
'Wie überträgt man die Musik des Mittelalters?', in ed.Wolfgang Gratzer and Hartmut Möller, Übersetzte Zeit: Das Mittelalter und die Musik der Gegenwart (Hofheim: Wolke, 2001) 325-39; German translation of 'Translating Medieval Music', forthcoming in Perspektiven auf die Musik vor 1600: Beiträge vom Symposium Neustift,/Novacella, 1998, eds..Anna Maria Busse Berger, Annegrit Laubenthal, John Stinson, and Reinhard Strohm (Hildesheim: Olms)
'Petrus frater dictus Palma ociosa', in ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 2001) Vol. 19, 523-4

On performance

'Using recordings to study musical performance', in ed. Andy Linehan, Aural History: Essays on Recorded Sound (London: The British Library, 2001) 1-12
'Rose, lis revisité', in ed. Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet and Nigel Wilkins, Guillaume de Machaut 1300-2000 (Paris: Sorbonne, 2002) 53-69; French translation by Agathe Sultan of 'Rose lis Revisited', in ed. Elizabeth Leach, Machaut's Music: new interpretations (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003) 249-62
'Musicology and performance' (pdf 112KB), in ed. Zdravko Blazekovic, Music's Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads, (New York: RILM, 2009), 791-804
'Early recorded violin playing: evidence for what? (pdf 116KB)', in ed. Claudio Bacciagaluppi, Aspekte der Streicherpraxis in der Romantik, Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, vol. 3 (Bern: forthcoming 2008)
'Recordings and histories of performance style', in ed. Nicholas Cook et al., The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 246-62

Refereed papers

On early music

`Compositional procedure in Machaut's Hoquetus David', Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, xvi (1980) 99-109
`An Elizabethan motet from Longleat', Musical Times cxxi (1980) 438-9 & 448-9
`Il libro di appunti di un suonatore di tromba del quindicesimo secolo (London, British Library, Cotton Titus A.XXVI)', Rivista italiana di Musicologia xvi (1981) 16-39 (English text available online)
`Related motets from fourteenth-century France', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association cix (1982-83) 1-22
`Machaut's Rose, lis and the problem of early music analysis', Music Analysis iii (1984) 9-28
`My Lady's Tears: a pair of songs by John Dowland', Early Music xix (1991) 227-33
`Not Just a Pretty Tune: structuring devices in four Machaut virelais', Sonus xii (1991) 22-31
`The Thynne Lutebook', The Lute xxxiii (1993) 1-11
`Le Voir Dit and La Messe de Nostre Dame: aspects of genre and style in late works of Machaut' Plainsong and Medieval Music 2 (1993) 43-73
`Le Voir Dit: a reconstruction and a guide for musicians', Plainsong and Medieval Music 2 (1993) 103-40
`The Emergence of Ars nova' Journal of Musicology xiii (1995) 285-317
`The Cyprus Songs' in ed. Ursula Günther and Ludwig Finscher, The Cypriot-French Repertory of the Manuscript Torino J.II.9 (Hänssler, 1995) 395-431
`The structure and copying of the manuscript Torino J.II.9' (with Andrew Wathey and Jean Widaman) in ed. Ursula Günther and Ludwig Finscher, The Cypriot-French Repertory of the Manuscript Torino J.II.9 (Hänssler, 1995) 95-116
`The well-formed virelai' in ed. Patrizia dalla Vecchia & Donatella Restani, Trent'anni di Ricerche musicologiche: Studi in onore di F. Alberto Gallo (Rome, Edizioni Torre d'Orfeo, 1996) 125-141
`Aversa parverse?' Plainsong and Medieval Music 6 (1997) 17-19
'Early Music - observations and predictions' Early Music 25 (1997) 563-4

On performance

`The limits of authenticity', Early Music xii (1984) 13-16
'Articulating ars subtilior song', Early Music 31 (2003) 6-18
'Portamento and musical meaning', Journal of Musicological Research 25 (2006) 233-61. Portugese translation as 'Portamento e significado musical', Per Musi 15 (Jan/Jul 2007) 7-25
'Expressive gestures in Schubert singing on record', Nordisk Estetisk Tidskrift 33-34 (2006) 50-70. Pre-print. Updates. Sound examples.
'Sound and meaning in recordings of Schubert's "Die junge Nonne"', Musicae Scientiae 11 (2007), 209-36

Edited music

Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame (Oxford University Press, 1990) Don Malin Memorial Award, 1990

Book, music and record reviews

On early music

Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies iii/2 (1985), 50-1
Early Music viii (1980) 105-7, 262-5; ix (1981) 133, 213-16, 271-3; x (1982) 121, 401, 557-9; xii (1984) 107-109, 409-413 and 535; xiii (1985) 445-9; xiv (1986) 125-6; xv (1987) 105-109, 419-421; xvi (1988) 123-125, 433-437; xvii (1989) 573-575; xviii (1990) 151-2; xix (1991) 108-12, 135-6; xxii (1994) 337-8; xxiv (1996) 176-8; xxv (1997) 137; xxvii (1999) 319-20
Early Music History iv (1984) 347-355
Journal of the American Musicological Society 53 (2000) 152-9
Journal of the Royal Musical Association cxiii (1988) 129-131
Music Analysis 12 (1993) 117-9
Music & Letters lxiii (1982) 338-41; lxiv (1983) 105-6; lxx (1989) 455-6; lxxi (1990) 379-80, 460-1; lxxxvii (2006) 300-02
Musical Times cxxx (1989) 213
Times Literary Supplement 17 June 1983, 624; 1 March 1985, 229; 9 May 1986, 496; 1 December 1989, 1328; 16 March 1990, 285; 28 May 1993, 31; 29 August 1997, 18

On performance

Early Music xxxiii (2005) 334-6 (Musgrave & Sherman: Performing Brahms)
Music & Letters lxxxvi (2005) 114-6 (Walls: History, Imagination); xc (2009), 150-3 (Jan: The Memetics of Music)

Miscellaneous

`Torchlight on Perfect Writer', Personal Computer World vii:9 (September 1984) 199-200
'Contrapunctus diminutus and prolongation'. Unpublished paper from 1985 on the contribution that medieval counterpoint theory can make to analysis of the music.
Letter on preserving historical instruments, Early Music xxii (1994) 541
Planning and sleeve notes for CD-SAR 49, Philippe de Vitry and the Ars nova (Orlando Consort) 1991
Planning, editions, performance consultant, booklet for Naxos CD 8.553833, Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame and Songs from Le Voir Dit (1997) (Oxford Camerata)
Programming, editions and booklet for DG Archiv 457 618-2, Dreams in the Pleasure Garden: Machaut Chansons (Orlando Consort) 1998
Editions and booklet for Signum SIGCD011, Guillaume de Machaut Motets and Music from the Ivrea Codex (The Clerkes' Group) 1999
Essay for DG Archiv reissue of Music in the Gothic Era (Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow) 2002
Programme notes for PROM 30, 6 August, 2004 (Hilliard Ensemble)
Interviews in Early Music News, Early Music Today, Metro
'Joyce Hatto: how the recordings were faked', International Record Review vii/7 (March 2007) 14-15

Broadcasting

Regular broadcasts on BBC Radio 3: 'CD Review', 'Building a Library', `Spirit of the Age', `Music Weekly', `Tuning Up', Talks, Continuity for programmes of 14th- and 15th-century music. BBC Radio 4: `Kaleidoscope', BBC World Service `History of Music: the 14th century'. More recently, BBC Radio 3: contributions to 'The Unfinished Symphony', 31 December 1999; 'Je Guillaume' (celebrating Machaut's approximate 700th anniversary) 2000. BBC Radio 4: debate with Nicholas Kenyon and Andrew Parrott on The Modern Invention of Medieval Music, 2002; series of programmes on medieval music, 2002. Interviews with Norwegian and German radio on performance analysis, 2002.

Attached files
'Expressive Gestures' pre-print (pdf, 131 KB) 'Expressive Gestures' update (pdf, 18 KB)