Hearing the motet : essays on the motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Dolores Pesce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pesce, Dolores, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motets--500-1400--Congresses.

Motets.

Motets--15th century--Congresses.

Motets--16th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""This collection of essays by leading scholars explores sacred vocal polyphony from the 12th through the late 16th centuries. The emphasis is less on broad stylistic or historical trends than on the insights offered by particular compositions and on the tools of critical interpretation. For instance, Margaret Bent considers the ways in which informed 14th-century readers might have understood the several simultaneous Latin and musical 'texts' of a motet preserved in the Roman de Fauvel, and how their ways of understanding relate to the current practice of critical analysis of music. Rob Wegma

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Conference Introductory Remarks; 1. The Polyphonic Progeny of an Et gaudebit: Assessing Family Relations in the Thirteenth-Century Motet; 2. Beyond Glossing: The Old Made New in me fu grief/Robin m'aime/Portare Mout; 3. Which Vitry? The Witness of the Trinity Motet from the Roman de Fauvel; 4. Polyphony of Texts and Music in the Fourteenth-Century Motet: Tribum que non abhorruit/Quoniam secta latronum/Merito hec patimur and Its ""Quotations""; 5. Du Fay and the Cultures of Renaissance Florence

6. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Reading and Hearing Busnoys's Anthoni usque limina7. Love and Death in the Fifteenth-Century Motet: A Reading of Busnoys's Anima mea liquefacta est/Stirps Jesse; 8. Obrecht as Exegete: Reading Factor orbis as a Christmas Sermon; 9. Conflicting Levels of Meaning and Understanding in Josquin's O admirabile commercium Motet Cycle; 10. Josquin, Good King René, and O bone et dulcissime Jesu; 11. Miracles, Motivicity, and Mannerism: Adrian Willaert's Videns Dominus flentes sorores Lazari and Some Aspects of Motet Composition in the 1520's

12. Lasso as Historicist: The Cantus-Firmus Motets 13. Tonal Compass in the Motets of Orlando di Lasso; 14. Palestrina as Reader: Motets from the Song of Songs; 15. On William Byrd's Emendemus in melius; 16. Byrd, the Catholics, and the Motet: The Hearing Reopened; Index of Names;

Notes:

"This collection of essays grew out of a conference, Hearing the Motet, held at Washington University in February 1994"--Introd.

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772808-1

0-19-802574-2

1-280-47222-7

0-19-535165-7

1-60256-361-6

OCLC:

437173143