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OverviewFirst full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages. Motets constitute the most important polyphonic genre of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Moreover, these compositions are intrinsically involved in the early development of polyphony. This volume - the first to be devotedexclusively to medieval motets - aims to provide a comprehensive guide to them, from a number of different disciplines and perspectives. It addresses crucial matters such as how the motet developed; the rich interplay of musical,poetic, and intertextual modes of meaning specific to the genre; and the changing social and historical circumstances surrounding motets in medieval France, England, and Italy. It also seeks to question many traditional assumptions and received opinions in the area. The first part of the book considers core concepts in motet scholarship: issues of genre, relationships between the motet and other musico-poetic forms, tenor organization, isorhythm, notational development, social functions, and manuscript layout. This is followed by a series of individual case studies which look in detail at a variety of specific pieces, compositional techniques, collections, and subgenres. JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Contributors: Margaret Bent, Jacques Boogaart, Catherine A. Bradley, Alice V. Clark, Suzannah Clark, KarenDesmond, Lawrence Earp, Sarah Fuller, John Haines, Jared C. Hartt, Elizabeth Eva Leach, Dolores Pesce, Gael Saint-Cricq, Jennifer Saltzstein, Matthew P. Thomson, Stefan Udell, Anna Zayaruznaya, Emily Zazulia Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jared C Hartt (Customer) , Jared C Hartt (Customer) , Elizabeth Eva Leach , Catherine A Bradley (Person)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: The Boydell Press Volume: v. 17 Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781783273072ISBN 10: 1783273070 Pages: 420 Publication Date: 18 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[A] very detailed and welcome scholarly resource on the most important polyphonic genre of the 13th and 14th centuries. --B. L. Eden, Valparaiso University [H]ighly admirable. . . . [T]his volume stands as a central guide to future work on the medieval motet -- indeed, medieval musicology as a whole will need to account for arguments made throughout its pages. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY [Mary Channen Caldwell] A welcome addition to the literature on music of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. BRIO An important re-evaluation of the motet as a sophisticated and multi-layered cultural phenomenon with a complex history, an art form enjoyed not only as music, but also appreciated in written form as a mark of education and as a status symbol. This book is surely a must-have for any university with a music library, and for all serious scholars of medieval music. THE CONSORT [A] very detailed and welcome scholarly resource on the most important polyphonic genre of the 13th and 14th centuries. --B. L. Eden, Valparaiso University As a genre the medieval motet can be challenging and confusing to many musicians, evem music graduate students, and to medieval history and English graduate students. In recent years, the complex relationships between text, music, and performance of medieval motets have slowly been revealed and documented in the scholarly literature and performing editions. Hartt (Oberlin) provides a compendium of current knowledge on this topic. Written by experts in the field, these 17 essays draw on multidisciplinary research. The volume opens with The Genre(s) of Medieval Motets, by Elizabeth Eva Leach, and concludes with A Motet Ahead of Its Time? by Emily Zazulia. In between there are discussions of isorhythm, notations, the two-voice motet, French chansonniers, and many other aspects of medieval motets. Overall, a very detailed and welcome scholarly resource on the most important polyphonic genre of the 13th and 14th centuries. --B. L. Eden, Valparaiso University Author InformationJARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. ELIZABETH EVA LEACH is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focuses on song in the medieval West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. GAËL SAINT-CRICQ is Professor of Musicology at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France. MATTHEW P. THOMSON is a Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on music of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including polyphonic motets, monophonic song, and the role of music in literature. MARGARET BENT is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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