Author: Catherine A. Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.
The Motet in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Margaret Bent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190063793
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed places not only to musical notes, but also to individual words in relation to them and each other. The Motet in the Late Middle Ages offers innovative approaches to the equal partnership of music and texts in motets of the fourteenth century and beyond, showcasing the imaginative opportunities afforded by this literal kind of intertextuality, and yielding a very different narrative from the common complaint that different simultaneous texts make motets incomprehensible. As leading musicologist Margaret Bent asserts, they simply require a different approach to preparation and listening. In this book, Bent examines the words and music of motets from many different angles: foundational verbal quotations and pre-existent chant excerpts and their contexts, citations both of words and music from other compositions, function, dating, structure, theory, and number symbolism. Individual studies of these original creations tease out a range of strategies, ingenuity, playfulness, striking juxtapositions, and even subversion. Half of the thirty-two chapters consist of new material; the other half are substantially revised and updated versions of previously published articles and chapters, organized into seven Parts. With new analyses of text and music together, new datings, new attributions, and new hypotheses about origins and interrelationships, Bent uncovers little-explored dimensions, provides a window into the craft and thought processes of medieval composers, and opens up many directions for future work.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190063793
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed places not only to musical notes, but also to individual words in relation to them and each other. The Motet in the Late Middle Ages offers innovative approaches to the equal partnership of music and texts in motets of the fourteenth century and beyond, showcasing the imaginative opportunities afforded by this literal kind of intertextuality, and yielding a very different narrative from the common complaint that different simultaneous texts make motets incomprehensible. As leading musicologist Margaret Bent asserts, they simply require a different approach to preparation and listening. In this book, Bent examines the words and music of motets from many different angles: foundational verbal quotations and pre-existent chant excerpts and their contexts, citations both of words and music from other compositions, function, dating, structure, theory, and number symbolism. Individual studies of these original creations tease out a range of strategies, ingenuity, playfulness, striking juxtapositions, and even subversion. Half of the thirty-two chapters consist of new material; the other half are substantially revised and updated versions of previously published articles and chapters, organized into seven Parts. With new analyses of text and music together, new datings, new attributions, and new hypotheses about origins and interrelationships, Bent uncovers little-explored dimensions, provides a window into the craft and thought processes of medieval composers, and opens up many directions for future work.
Polyphony in Medieval Paris
Author: Catherine A. Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.
Ars antiqua
Author: EdwardH. Roesner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351575821
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The ars antiqua began to be mentioned in writings about music in the early decades of the fourteenth century, where it was cited along with references to a more modern "art", an ars nova. It was understood by those who coined the notion to be rooted in the musical practices outlined in the Ars musica of Lambertus and, especially, the Ars cantus mensurabilis of Franco of Cologne. Directly or indirectly the essays collected in this volume all address one or more of the issues regarding ars antiqua polyphony-questions relating to the nature and definition of genre; the evolution of the polyphonic idiom; the workings of the creative process including the role of oral process and notation and the continuum between these extremes; questions about how this music was used and understood; and of how it fits into the intellectual life of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some of the essays ask new questions or approach long-standing ones from fresh perspectives. All, however, are rooted in a line of scholarship that produced a body of writing of continuing relevance.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351575821
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The ars antiqua began to be mentioned in writings about music in the early decades of the fourteenth century, where it was cited along with references to a more modern "art", an ars nova. It was understood by those who coined the notion to be rooted in the musical practices outlined in the Ars musica of Lambertus and, especially, the Ars cantus mensurabilis of Franco of Cologne. Directly or indirectly the essays collected in this volume all address one or more of the issues regarding ars antiqua polyphony-questions relating to the nature and definition of genre; the evolution of the polyphonic idiom; the workings of the creative process including the role of oral process and notation and the continuum between these extremes; questions about how this music was used and understood; and of how it fits into the intellectual life of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some of the essays ask new questions or approach long-standing ones from fresh perspectives. All, however, are rooted in a line of scholarship that produced a body of writing of continuing relevance.
Ritual Meanings in the Fifteenth-Century Motet
Author: Robert Michael Nosow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The first large-scale study of how fifteenth-century motets were used across Western Europe, dispelling the mysteries surrounding these outstanding works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521193478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The first large-scale study of how fifteenth-century motets were used across Western Europe, dispelling the mysteries surrounding these outstanding works.
The Motet in the Age of Du Fay
Author: Julie E. Cumming
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543378
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543378
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.
Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era
Author: Esperanza Rodríguez-García
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315463075
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era provides new dimensions to the discussion of the immense corpus of polyphonic motets produced and performed in the decades following the end of the Council of Trent in 1563. Beyond the genre’s rich connections with contemporary spiritual life and religious experience, the motet is understood here as having a multifaceted life in transmission, performance and reception. By analysing the repertoire itself, but also by studying its material life in books and accounts, in physical places and concrete sonic environments, and by investigating the ways in which the motet was listened to and talked about by contemporaries, the eleven chapters in this book redefine the cultural role of the genre. The motet, thanks to its own protean nature, not bound to any given textual, functional or compositional constraint, was able to convey cultural meanings powerfully, give voice to individual and collective identities, cross linguistic and confessional divides, and incarnate a model of learned and highly expressive musical composition. Case studies include considerations of composers (Palestrina, Victoria, Lasso), cities (Seville and Granada, Milan), books (calendrically ordered collections, non-liturgical music books) and special portions of the repertoire (motets pro defunctis, instrumental intabulations).
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315463075
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era provides new dimensions to the discussion of the immense corpus of polyphonic motets produced and performed in the decades following the end of the Council of Trent in 1563. Beyond the genre’s rich connections with contemporary spiritual life and religious experience, the motet is understood here as having a multifaceted life in transmission, performance and reception. By analysing the repertoire itself, but also by studying its material life in books and accounts, in physical places and concrete sonic environments, and by investigating the ways in which the motet was listened to and talked about by contemporaries, the eleven chapters in this book redefine the cultural role of the genre. The motet, thanks to its own protean nature, not bound to any given textual, functional or compositional constraint, was able to convey cultural meanings powerfully, give voice to individual and collective identities, cross linguistic and confessional divides, and incarnate a model of learned and highly expressive musical composition. Case studies include considerations of composers (Palestrina, Victoria, Lasso), cities (Seville and Granada, Milan), books (calendrically ordered collections, non-liturgical music books) and special portions of the repertoire (motets pro defunctis, instrumental intabulations).
Cantus Firmus in Mass and Motet, 1420-1520
Author: Edgar H. Sparks
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Composition (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut
Author: Deborah McGrady
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004228195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Offering the first comprehensive study of Guillaume de Machaut’s vast corpus of text and music, the 18 essays in this collection explore the author’s engagement with the ethical, political, and aesthetic concerns of his time. Building on interdisciplinary interest in Machaut, this collection broadens discussion of his work by exploring overlapping interests in his poetry and music; addressing lesser-studied writings; offering fresh perspectives on lyric, authorial voice, and performance; and engaging more critically with his reception by medieval bookmakers, modern editors, and the music industry. The result is a promising map for future research in the field that will be of interest to students and specialists alike.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004228195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Offering the first comprehensive study of Guillaume de Machaut’s vast corpus of text and music, the 18 essays in this collection explore the author’s engagement with the ethical, political, and aesthetic concerns of his time. Building on interdisciplinary interest in Machaut, this collection broadens discussion of his work by exploring overlapping interests in his poetry and music; addressing lesser-studied writings; offering fresh perspectives on lyric, authorial voice, and performance; and engaging more critically with his reception by medieval bookmakers, modern editors, and the music industry. The result is a promising map for future research in the field that will be of interest to students and specialists alike.
The Montpellier Codex, Part 1
Author: Hans Tischler
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895790815
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0895790815
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Discovering Medieval Song
Author: Mark Everist
Publisher:
ISBN: 110701039X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.
Publisher:
ISBN: 110701039X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.