Basic Machaut resources
books and secondary literature
Earp, Lawrence. Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research. Garland Composer Resource Manuals. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.
Leach, Elizabeth Eva. Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
Leach, Elizabeth Eva, ed. Machaut’s Music: New Interpretations. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 1. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2003.
Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. Machaut’s Mass: An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
McGrady, Deborah, and Jennifer Bain, eds. A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Master. Brill, forthcoming.
Robertson, Anne Walters. Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
editions of texts and music
Ludwig, Friedrich, ed. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Vol. 1: Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais. Publikationen älterer Musik 1/1. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926. Vol. 2: Einleitung. Publikationen älterer Musik 3/1. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1928. Vol. 3: Motetten. Publikationen älterer Musik 4/2. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1929. Vol. 4: Messe und Lais. Edited by Heinrich Besseler from the Nachlass Ludwig. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1943 (destroyed). Reprinted by Leipzig: VEB Breitkopf & Härtel and Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1954.
Wimsatt, James I., and William W. Kibler, eds. and trans. Le Jugement du Roy de Behaingne and Remede de Fortune. Music edited by Rebecca A. Baltzer. The Chaucer Library. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
other resources
Elizabeth Eva Leach has an online tutorial on fourteenth-century notation! Register at http://diamm.nsms.ox.ac.uk/moodle/login/index.php .
You might also want to check out her blog: http://eeleach.wordpress.com/blog/ .
Earp, Lawrence. Guillaume de Machaut: A Guide to Research. Garland Composer Resource Manuals. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995.
Leach, Elizabeth Eva. Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
Leach, Elizabeth Eva, ed. Machaut’s Music: New Interpretations. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 1. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2003.
Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. Machaut’s Mass: An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
McGrady, Deborah, and Jennifer Bain, eds. A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Master. Brill, forthcoming.
Robertson, Anne Walters. Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
editions of texts and music
Ludwig, Friedrich, ed. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Vol. 1: Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais. Publikationen älterer Musik 1/1. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926. Vol. 2: Einleitung. Publikationen älterer Musik 3/1. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1928. Vol. 3: Motetten. Publikationen älterer Musik 4/2. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1929. Vol. 4: Messe und Lais. Edited by Heinrich Besseler from the Nachlass Ludwig. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1943 (destroyed). Reprinted by Leipzig: VEB Breitkopf & Härtel and Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1954.
Wimsatt, James I., and William W. Kibler, eds. and trans. Le Jugement du Roy de Behaingne and Remede de Fortune. Music edited by Rebecca A. Baltzer. The Chaucer Library. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
other resources
Elizabeth Eva Leach has an online tutorial on fourteenth-century notation! Register at http://diamm.nsms.ox.ac.uk/moodle/login/index.php .
You might also want to check out her blog: http://eeleach.wordpress.com/blog/ .