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A reflection on the idea of the ""composer"" in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval music. The modern concept of the individual composer is central to accounts of Western music, and continues to represent a critical field of research in musicology. However, this approach cannot be straightforwardly transposed to the Middle Ages, as it does not reflect the complex creative realities of medieval composition, and conflicts with the evidence from extant sources and documentation. This collection, the first full-length study of the subject, questions and revises the concept of the composer for the medieval period through five thematic parts: 'Historiographical Critique', 'Ascriptions, Attributions, Signatures', 'Medieval Constructions of Authority and of the Authorial Persona', 'The Composing Workshop', and 'Composers as Communities'. Spanning a period from the seventh century to the early Renaissance, and taking in different cultural and geographical areas of Western Europe, the essays examine a range of repertoires and fields - plainchant, Latin devotional song, medieval motet, trouvère song, Ars nova, drama, and illuminated Gothic manuscripts - in diverse contexts, from clerical communities, to princely courts and lay workshops. Overall, the new perspectives here shed fresh light on the musical practices and repertoires of the Middle Ages.

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Author:   Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne ,  Professor Gaël Saint-Cricq ,  Professor Alison Stones (Customer) ,  Dr Anna Zayaruznaya (Customer)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
ISBN:  

9781837650354

ISBN 10:   1837650357
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   19 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: From Composer to Composers Gaël Saint-Cricq, with Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne I. Historiographical Critique 1. Gregory and Friends: Plural Authorities in the History of Romano-Frankish Chant Henry Parkes 2. Inspiration vs Attribution: The Voice of the Planctus ante nescia Charles E. Brewer 3. Petrus de Cruce, Philippe de Vitry, Notational Epochs, and the Spans of Human Lives Anna Zayaruznaya II. Ascriptions, Attributions, Signatures 4. Composing in the Late Middle Ages: Paradoxes in Anonymity and Attributions Margaret Bent 5. Questions of Signatures and Authorship: Some Elusive Scribes and Artists in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century France Alison Stones III. Medieval Constructions of Authority and of the Authorial Persona 6. Encoded Signatures: Devotion and Artistic Self-Presentation in the Motet Ferre solet (1373) Manon Louviot 7. The (Critical) Reception of Adam de la Halle's Motets by Petrus de Cruce and His Circle Catherine A. Bradley IV. The Composing Workshop 8. In the Writing Workshop: Composing for the Stage in French during the Long Fifteenth Century Estelle Doudet 9. Facere, Componere, Invenire: Reassembling the Composer in the Long Thirteenth Century Mark Everist V. Composers as Communities10. W. de Wicumbe as a Composer of Alleluya Rondelli Karen Desmond 11. Rethinking Trouvère: Biographical and Historical Perspectives on Thirteenth-Century Musical Culture Brianne Dolce 12. Encounters of Poets, Composers and Performers in Ars Nova Song: The Case of Jaquet de Noyon, Minstrel, and the Ballade Puis que je sui fumeux Yolanda Plumley General bibliography Index of sources Index of proper nouns and places Index of works

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ANNE-ZOÉ RILLON-MARNE is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Université catholique de l'Ouest (Angers), France. GAËL SAINT-CRICQ is Professor of Musicology at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France. ANNE-ZOÉ RILLON-MARNE is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Université catholique de l'Ouest (Angers), France. GAËL SAINT-CRICQ is Professor of Musicology at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France. MARGARET BENT is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

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