The monstrous new art : divided forms in the late medieval motet / Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zayaruznaya, Anna, author.

Series:

Music in context.

Music in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vitry, Philippe de, 1291-1361. Motets.

Vitry, Philippe de.

Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377. Motets.

Guillaume.

Motets--France--500-1400--History and criticism.

Motets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the works of composers Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, and their contemporaries. Aligning the larger forms of motets with the broad sacred and secular themes of their texts, Zayaruznaya shows how monstrous or hybrid exempla are musically sculpted by rhythmic and textural means. These divisive musical procedures point to the contradictory aspects not only of explicitly monstrous bodies, but of such apparently unified entities as the body politic, the courtly lady, and the Holy Trinity. Zayaruznaya casts a new light on medieval modes of musical representation, with profound implications for broader disciplinary narratives about the history of text-music relations, the emergence of musical unity, and the ontology of the musical work.

Contents:

Songs alive

How (not) to write a motet : the exemplary In virtute/Decens

Motet visions of an apocalyptic statue

Interlude : Nebuchadnezzar's dream

Ars nova and division.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-45812-2

1-316-19098-6

1-316-21131-2

1-316-18912-0

1-316-20944-X

1-316-20577-0

1-139-62629-9

1-316-20394-8

1-316-20758-7