In addition to full-length recitals, Chanterie also welcomes the opportunity to perform in an academic setting. The ensemble is available for short recitals lasting approximately forty minutes, as well as for longer lecture recitals dealing with various aspects of medieval music, including musicology, performance practice, and the social and political contexts of the music.

Fines amouretes: The music of Adam de la Halle

The thirteenth-century trouvère Adam de la Halle is well-known for his pastoral music-drama Le Jeu de Robin et Marion. However, as a musical figure, he is considerably more important than that work would suggest. His monophonic lyric chansons are some of the last in the great tradition of troubadours and trouvères of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, while his motets form the bridge between the simpler style of the Notre-Dame composers and the more complex motets of the Ars Nova period. His polyphonic chansons, for three voices, are possibly the earliest example of a form that will become hugely popular in the following centuries, the polyphonic formes fixes of Machaut and the Burgundian composers. Our programme includes examples of all these genres, and in lively combination of voices and instruments recreates the atmosphere of a performance of the music of courtly love from the late thirteenth century.

Mondain dieu d'harmonie: The art of Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1373) was the chief French composer of the mid-fourteenth century. He was a poet/composer in the tradition of the trouvères of the previous century, while his musical and poetic forms paved the way for the courtly Burgundian music of the fifteenth century. His composition later in life of the masterful Mass of Notre Dame show him to have been as great a figure in the composition of sacred music as of secular

In Viam Sancti Jacobi: Music from the pilgrimage route to Compostela

A musical journey from twelfth-century Paris to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most popular pilgrimage destinations of the middle ages. Based upon the contents of the famed manuscript Codex Calixtinus, the programme includes plainchant, lively pilgrimage songs, sacred and profane songs in several of the languages of medieval Spain, and the magnificent polyphonic compositions of the mid-twelfth century.

De arte honeste amandi: Music at the Court of Marie de Champagne

A collection of courtly love songs including the monophonic music of the troubadours and trouvères, polyphonic French motets, Latin laments, and dramatic recitation of poetry and prose. The repertoire dates from the late twelfth century, and is centred upon the court of Marie de Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

In arcem lucis: Scholars & Clerics at Notre-Dame de Paris

A programme presenting the various types of music that would have been heard in Paris during the reign of Philippe II, between 1180 and 1223, a particularly vibrant period which saw the foundations of modern Paris take shape. The music is sacred and secular, monophonic and polyphonic, and includes all the genres that would have been familiar to the clerics of Notre-Dame.

Natus est: Christmas in the monasteries of twelfth-century France

A collection of chants, polyphonies, and Latin songs devoted to the Christmas season taken from a variety of twelfth-century French sources. The programme includes some well-known plainchant, as well as hymns and sequences devoted to Christmas, and a selection of organa from the Saint-Martial manuscripts.