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Title A critical companion to medieval motets / edited by Jared C. Hartt
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 397 pages) : illustrations, music
Series Studies in medieval and Renaissance music, 1479-9294 ; 17
Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 17. 1479-9294
Contents Introduction: Approaching medieval motets / Jared C. Hartt -- Genre(s) of medieval motets / Elizabeth Eva Leach -- Origins and interactions : clausula, motet, conductus / Catherine A. Bradley -- Tracing the tenor in medieval motets / Alice V. Clark -- Isorhythm / Lawrence Earp -- Notations / Karen Desmond -- Thirteenth-century motet functions : views through the lens of the Portare motet family / Dolores Pesce -- Prism of its time : social functions of the motet in fourteenth-century France / Jacques Boogaart -- Motets, manuscript culture, mise-en-page / John Haines and Stefan Udell -- Clerics, courtiers, and the vernacular two-voice motet : the case of Fines amouretes/Fiat and the Roman de la poire / Jennifer Saltzstein -- When words converge and meanings diverge : counterexamples to polytextuality in the thirteenth-century motet / Suzannah Clark -- Motets in chansonniers and the other culture of the French thirteenth-century motet / Gaƫl Saint-Cricq -- Building a motet around quoted material : textual and musical structure in motets based on monophonic songs / Matthew P. Thomson -- Duet motet in England : genre, tonal coherence, reconstruction / Jared C. Hartt -- Materia matters : reconstructing Colla/Bona / Anna Zayaruznaya -- Machaut's Motet 10 and its interconnections / Margaret Bent -- Motet conceived in troubled times : Machaut's Motet 22 / Sarah Fuller -- Motet ahead of its time? : the curious case of Portio nature/Ida capillorum / Emily Zazulia
Summary First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the middle ages
Subject Motets -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
Sacred & religious music.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
MUSIC / Religious / Christian.
RELIGION / Christian Education / General.
Motets
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Hartt, Jared C., editor.
ISBN 9781787442542
1787442543
Other Titles Medieval motets