The refrain cento: myth or motet?
The refrain cento: myth or motet?
Of all the genres of thirteenth-century vernacular polyphony, none is more elusive than the so-called refrain cento. Such types of composition as the motet enté and the motet with a single terminal refrain make regular appearances in the literature on the thirteenth-century motet. Most of these genres are defined by the presence or absence of a refrain, the musico-poetic entity which seems to drift from chanson to rondeau, to verse narrative, to motet. The nature of the problem concerns the degree to which the pieces which have been termed refrain cento can actually be seen to constitute a genre. Generic considerations will therefore be given some weight in this article.
thirteenth, century, vernacular, polyphony, motet, everist
164-188
Everist, Mark
54ab6966-73b4-4c0e-b218-80b2927eaeb0
1989
Everist, Mark
54ab6966-73b4-4c0e-b218-80b2927eaeb0
Everist, Mark
(1989)
The refrain cento: myth or motet?
Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 114 (2), .
(doi:10.1093/jrma/114.2.164).
Abstract
Of all the genres of thirteenth-century vernacular polyphony, none is more elusive than the so-called refrain cento. Such types of composition as the motet enté and the motet with a single terminal refrain make regular appearances in the literature on the thirteenth-century motet. Most of these genres are defined by the presence or absence of a refrain, the musico-poetic entity which seems to drift from chanson to rondeau, to verse narrative, to motet. The nature of the problem concerns the degree to which the pieces which have been termed refrain cento can actually be seen to constitute a genre. Generic considerations will therefore be given some weight in this article.
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Published date: 1989
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thirteenth, century, vernacular, polyphony, motet, everist
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