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French motets in the thirteenth century: music, poetry and genre

French motets in the thirteenth century: music, poetry and genre
French motets in the thirteenth century: music, poetry and genre
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.

Contents

Part I. Origins: 1. Introduction; 2. The origins and early history of the motet; 3. The French motet; Part II. Genre: 4. The motet enté; 5. Rondeau-Motet; 6. Refrain cento; 7. Devotional forms; 8. The motet and genre; Bibliography; Index.
french, motet, thirteenth century, everist, music, poetry, genre, medieval, renaissance
0521395399
Cambridge University Press
Everist, Mark
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Everist, Mark
54ab6966-73b4-4c0e-b218-80b2927eaeb0

Everist, Mark (1994) French motets in the thirteenth century: music, poetry and genre (Cambridge Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music), Cambridge, GB. Cambridge University Press, 216pp.

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Abstract

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.

Contents

Part I. Origins: 1. Introduction; 2. The origins and early history of the motet; 3. The French motet; Part II. Genre: 4. The motet enté; 5. Rondeau-Motet; 6. Refrain cento; 7. Devotional forms; 8. The motet and genre; Bibliography; Index.

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Published date: 1994
Keywords: french, motet, thirteenth century, everist, music, poetry, genre, medieval, renaissance

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Local EPrints ID: 67467
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/67467
ISBN: 0521395399
PURE UUID: d9a7c908-7e9f-4d34-9ee2-99afbc5ed6a8

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Date deposited: 04 Sep 2009
Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 16:16

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