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

Author/creator Everist, Mark
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Descriptionxiv, 199 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge studies in medieval and Renaissance music
Cambridge studies in medieval and Renaissance music. ^A350912
Contents Preface -- Origins -- The origins and early history of the motet -- The French motet -- Genre -- The motet ente -- Rondeau-motet -- Refrain cento -- Devotional forms -- The motet and genre.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other titleFrench motets in the 13th century.
LCCN 93028322
ISBN0521395399 (hardback)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML2927 .E94 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold