| French Motets in the Thirteenth Century: Music, Poetry and Genre Contributor(s): Everist, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521612047 ISBN-13: 9780521612043 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $54.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Voice |
| Dewey: 782.260 |
| LCCN: 2005274161 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (0.87 lbs) 216 pages |