The Motet in the Late Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-006377-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 776 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 263 mm, Gewicht: 1547 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bent, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Alte Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Mittelalter & Renaissance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Illustrations

- List of Tables

- List of Music Examples

- List of Sound Clips

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- PART I. COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES

- 1. Theoretical and Terminological Issues

- 2. What is Isorhythm?

- PART II. THE MARIGNY MOTETS, BEYOND FAUVEL, AND VITRY

- 3. Fauvel and Marigny: Which Came First?

- 4. Tribum que non abhorruit/Quoniam secta latronum/Merito hec patimur and its 'Quotations'; and Garrit gallus/In nova

- Appendix: Commentary to Tribum/Quoniam; Commentary to Garrit/In nova

- 5. Aman novi/Heu Fortuna/Heu me

- 6. Floret/Florens: Intended for Fauvel?

- 7. Related Manuscripts, Related Motets; Vitry

- 8. Vos quid admiramini/Gratissima virginis species/Gaude gloriosa

- PART III. MACHAUT

- 9. Words and Music in Machaut's Motet 9

- 10. Deception, Exegesis and Sounding Number in Machaut's Motet 15

- 11. The 'Harmony' of the Machaut Mass

- 12. Machaut's Motet 10 and its Interconnections

- 13. Machaut's Motet 18: Bone pastor Guillerme/Bone pastor, qui pastores/Bone pastor

- 14. Text-Music Relationships in Machaut's Motets 4 and 8

- PART IV. MUSICORUM COLLEGIUM: THE MUSICIAN MOTETS

- 15. Apollinis eclipsatur, its Progeny and their Sources

- 16. Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis/In omnem terram and Later Versions with Added Parts

- Appendix: Commentaries to Web Transcriptions for the Pieces with Multiple Sources

- 17. Musicalis sciencia/Sciencie laudabili; the Musicians Named in Apollinis and Musicalis

- 18. Musicorum collegio/In templo Dei/Auete

- 19. Alma polis religio/Axe poli cum artica and its Named Musicians

- Appendix: Variants to Ex. 19.1, Alma polis religio/Axe poli cum artica

- 20. Sub arturo plebs/Fons citharizancium/In omnem terram and its Musicians

- Appendix: Variants in Sub Arturo plebs

- 21. Fragmentary Motets and Other Possibly Linked Compositions

- PART V. ENGLISH MOTETS C. 1400-1420

- 22. The Yoxford Manuscript and the Motet O amicus/Precursoris

- 23. The Yoxford Credo

- Appendix: Notes to Credo Transcription

- 24. Mayshuet and the Deo gratias Motets in the Old Hall Manuscript

- 25. Old Hall, the Agincourt Motets, and Dunstaple

- PART VI. ITALIAN MOTETS

- 26. The Fourteenth-Century Italian Motet

- 27. The Motet Collection of San Lorenzo 2211 (SL2211) and the Composer Hubertus de Salinis

- 28. The Motets of Johannes Ciconia

- 29. Ciconia, Prosdocimus, and the Workings of Musical Grammar as Exemplified in O felix templum and O Padua

- PART VII. MUSIC FOR POPES AND THE COURTS OF BURGUNDY AND CYPRUS

- 30. Early Papal Motets

- Appendix: Music for Popes Clement VI to Eugene IV

- 31. Trémoïlle Revisited

- Appendix: Transcription of Incipits as Listed in the Trém Index

- 32. Some Aspects of the Motets in the Cyprus Manuscript

- Appendix: The Cyprus Motets

- Bibliography

- Index of Manuscripts

- Index of Compositions

- General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Bent is an emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of several international societies and academies. Between 1975 and 1992 she taught at Brandeis and Princeton universities and served as President of the American Musicological Society. Her numerous publications range over English and continental music, repertories, notation, and theory of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Her editorial publications include critical editions of Dunstaple, Ciconia, English masses, and a Rossini opera. Her many honours include the C.B.E. and three honorary degrees. In 2018, she received the inaugural Adler prize of the International Musicological Society.