Meter and Word Setting: Revising Machaut's Monophonic Virelais by David Maw

“…At first glance, the virelais seem simple, naIve even. Yet closer analytical attention has revealed that they harbor a range of sophistications, whether a subtle interplay of melodic phrase and poetic line,! …”
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The vanishing English Virelai: French Complainte in English in the fifteenth century by Nuttall, J

Clotilde Dauphant, La Poétique des Œuvres complètes d’Eustache Deschamps (ms. BnF fr.840). Composition et variation formelle, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2015 by Sandrine Legrand

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The mimetic basis of pure music in Machaut's refrain songs: part 1, musical mimesis by Maw, D

“…The proposal accounts on the same basis for both the close relationship of words and music observable in the virelais and for the more abstract connection apparent in the rondeaux. …”

The mimetic basis of pure music in Machaut's Refrain Songs: Part 2, musical abstraction by Maw, D

“…Through these accounts, it can be seen that the relationship of words and music proceeds on the same fundamental basis in the seemingly melismatic rondeaux as in the syllabic virelais, despite the apparently closer connection found in these latter. …”