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The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry (Hardcover)
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The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry (Hardcover)
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A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and
fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was
skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The
relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as
a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of
Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon
through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music
and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early
fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a
wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvere song, plays,
romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show
that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates;
she argues that their appropriation of scholastic, Latinate writing
techniques workedto authorize Old French music and poetry as media
suitable for the transmission of knowledge. Beginning with an
exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous
and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goeson to articulate
a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two
named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouveres
Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how, by
blending their craftwith the writing practices of the universities,
composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as
authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the
vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation. Jennifer
Saltzstein is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University
of Oklahoma.
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