French Motets in the Thirteenth Century: Music, Poetry and Genre

di Mark Everist (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This is the first full-length study of the vernacular motet in thirteenth-century France. The motet was the most prestigious type of music of that period, filling a gap between the music of the so-called Notre-Dame School and the Ars Nova of the early fourteenth century. This book takes the music and the poetry of the motet as its starting-point and attempts to come to grips with the ways in which musicians and poets treated pre-existing material, creating new artefacts. The book reviews the processes of texting and retexting, and the procedures for imparting structure to the works; it considers the way we conceive genre in the thirteenth-century motet, and supplements these with principles derived from twentieth-century genre theory. The motet is viewed as the interaction of literary and musical modes whose relationships give meaning to individual musical compositions.

• Autore: Mark Everist
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 216 p.
• Dimensioni: 246 x 188 mm
• Peso: 392 gr.
• EAN: 9780521612043

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