Overview

The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music. The Montpellier Codex (Bibliotheque interuniversitaire, Section Medecine, H.196) occupies a central place in scholarship on medieval music. This small book, packed with gorgeous gold leaf illuminations, historiated initials, and exquisite music calligraphy, is one of the most famous of all surviving music manuscripts, fundamental to understandings of the development of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphonic composition. At some point in its historyan eighth section (fascicle) of 48 folios was appended to the codex: when and why this happened has long perplexed scholars. The forty-three works contained in the manuscript's final section represent a collection of musical compositions, assembled at a complex moment of historical change, straddling the historiographical juncture between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This book provides the first in-depth exploration of the contents and contexts of the Montpellier Codex's final fascicle. It explores the manuscript's production, dating, function, and notation, offering close-readings of individual works, which illuminate compositionally progressive features of therepertoire as well as its interactions with existing musical and poetic traditions, from a variety of perspectives: thirteenth- and fourteenth-century music, art history, and manuscript culture. CATHERINE A. BRADLEY isan Associate Professor at the University of Oslo; KAREN DESMOND is Assistant Professor of Music at Brandeis University. Contributors: Rebecca A. Baltzer, Edward Breen, Sean Curran, Rachel Davies, Margaret Dobby, Mark Everist, Solomon Guhl-Miller, Anna Kathryn Grau, Oliver Huck, Anne Ibos-Auge, Eva M. Maschke, David Maw, Dolores Pesce, Alison Stones, Mary Wolinski

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Author:   Catherine A Bradley (Person) ,  Karen Desmond (Author) ,  Professor Alison Stones (Customer) ,  Anna Kathryn Grau (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Volume:   v. 16
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781783272723

ISBN 10:   1783272724
Pages:   351
Publication Date:   16 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Montpellier 8: Anatomy of... - Mark Everist A palaeographical analysis of the verbal text in Montpellier 8: problems, implications, opportunities - Sean Curran The style and iconography of Mo folio 350 - Alison Stones The decoration of Montpellier Fascicle 8: its place in the continuum of Parisian manuscript illumination - Rebecca Baltzer Double motet layouts in the Montpellier Codex and contemporaneous Libri motetorum - Oliver Huck Deus in adiutorium revisited: sources and contexts - Eva M. Maschke Thematic clusters and compilational strategies in Mo 8 - Anna Kathryn Grau Texture, rhythm, and stylistic groupings in Montpellier's eighth fascicle motets - Karen Desmond 'Je le temoin en mon chant': The art of diminution in the Petronian triplum - David Maw How rhythmically innovative is the eighth fascicle of the Montpellier Codex? - Mary Wolinski Re-presentation in the Ars antiqua: from chant to polyphony - Solomon Guhl-Miller '[.] Que ne dit ""cief bien seans""': Quoting Motets in Mo 8 - Anne Ibos-Augé Montpellier, Fascicle 8 PORTARE Motets and tonal exploration - Dolores Pesce Repetitions, rhythmical evolution, and rhetoric in the Montpellier Codex - Margaret Dobby Shedding light on Mo 8,304: Alma virgo virginum/Benedicta es, Maria - Rachel Davies A performance and reception history of On parole/A Paris/FRESE NOUVELE - Edward George Breen"

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A rich and varied crop of compelling scholarship, admirably executed and skilfully assembled by some of the finest minds now working on the music of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. PLAINSONG & MEDIEVAL MUSIC

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