French Motets in the Thirteenth Century

Music, Poetry and Genre

Mark Everist author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Nov '04

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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 the gap between the music of the so-called Notre-Dame School and the Ars Nova of the early fourteenth century.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.

'An impressive series of practical investigations ... a revisionist work of great importance ... this account will become a classic of its genre.' Musical Times

ISBN: 9780521612043

Dimensions: 246mm x 188mm x 12mm

Weight: 392g

216 pages