Hearing the Motet

Essays on the Motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-512905-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 641 g

This comprehensive collection of essays offers a paradigm of the scholarly and analytical approaches toward the motet in its most varied incarnations from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Featuring essays from leading scholars in the field, including Paula Higgins, Craig Monson, Patrick Macey, Anne Robertson, Jessie Ann Owens, Meg Bent, and Joshua Rifkin, it offers insightful readings of specific motets or motet repertoires and a broad-ranging analysis of the function and context of the motet in the middle ages and renaissance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pesce, Dolores

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Mittelalter & Renaissance

Über Autor(innen)

Dolores Pesce is Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her academic specialties include late nineteenth-century music, particularly the music of Franz Liszt and Edward MacDowell, and medieval music, with an emphasis on thirteenth-century motets and medieval theory.