French motets in the thirteenth century : music, poetry, and genre / Mark Everist.
| Author/creator | Everist, Mark |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994. |
| Description | xiv, 199 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other title | French motets in the 13th century. |
| LCCN | 93028322 |
| ISBN | 0521395399 (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML2927 .E94 1994 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |