French Motets in the Thirteenth Century : Music, Poetry and Genre, Paperback / softback Book

French Motets in the Thirteenth Century : Music, Poetry and Genre Paperback / softback

Part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music series

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This is the first full-length study of the vernacular motet in thirteenth-century France.

The motet was the most prestigious type of music of that period, filling a gap between the music of the so-called Notre-Dame School and the Ars Nova of the early fourteenth century.

This book takes the music and the poetry of the motet as its starting-point and attempts to come to grips with the ways in which musicians and poets treated pre-existing material, creating new artefacts.

The book reviews the processes of texting and retexting, and the procedures for imparting structure to the works; it considers the way we conceive genre in the thirteenth-century motet, and supplements these with principles derived from twentieth-century genre theory.

The motet is viewed as the interaction of literary and musical modes whose relationships give meaning to individual musical compositions.

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