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Author: Jared C Hartt (Customer) ,
Jared C Hartt (Customer) ,
Elizabeth Eva Leach ,
Catherine A Bradley (Person)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Volume: v. 17
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.844kg
ISBN: 9781783273072
ISBN 10: 1783273070
Pages: 420
Publication Date: 18 May 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[H]ighly admirable. . . . [T]his volume stands as a central guide to future work on the medieval motet -- indeed, medieval musicology as a whole will need to account for arguments made throughout its pages. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY [Mary Channen Caldwell] A welcome addition to the literature on music of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. BRIO An important re-evaluation of the motet as a sophisticated and multi-layered cultural phenomenon with a complex history, an art form enjoyed not only as music, but also appreciated in written form as a mark of education and as a status symbol. This book is surely a must-have for any university with a music library, and for all serious scholars of medieval music. THE CONSORT [A] very detailed and welcome scholarly resource on the most important polyphonic genre of the 13th and 14th centuries. --B. L. Eden, Valparaiso University
[A] very detailed and welcome scholarly resource on the most important polyphonic genre of the 13th and 14th centuries. --B. L. Eden, Valparaiso University
As a genre the medieval motet can be challenging and confusing to many musicians, evem music graduate students, and to medieval history and English graduate students. In recent years, the complex relationships between text, music, and performance of medieval motets have slowly been revealed and documented in the scholarly literature and performing editions. Hartt (Oberlin) provides a compendium of current knowledge on this topic. Written by experts in the field, these 17 essays draw on multidisciplinary research. The volume opens with The Genre(s) of Medieval Motets, by Elizabeth Eva Leach, and concludes with A Motet Ahead of Its Time? by Emily Zazulia. In between there are discussions of isorhythm, notations, the two-voice motet, French chansonniers, and many other aspects of medieval motets. Overall, a very detailed and welcome scholarly resource on the most important polyphonic genre of the 13th and 14th centuries. --B. L. Eden, Valparaiso University
Author Information
JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. ELIZABETH EVA LEACH is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focuses on song in the medieval West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. GAËL SAINT-CRICQ is Professor of Musicology at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France. MATTHEW P. THOMSON is Assistant Professor in Early Music, University College Dublin. Previously a Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, his research focuses on music of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including polyphonic motets, monophonic song, and the role of music in literature. MARGARET BENT is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
