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The Motet in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Motet in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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A unique capacity of measured polyphony is to give precisely fixed
places not only to musical notes, but also to individual words in
relation to them and each other. The Motet in the Late Middle Ages
offers innovative approaches to the equal partnership of music and
texts in motets of the fourteenth century and beyond, showcasing
the imaginative opportunities afforded by this literal kind of
intertextuality, and yielding a very different narrative from the
common complaint that different simultaneous texts make motets
incomprehensible. As leading musicologist Margaret Bent asserts,
they simply require a different approach to preparation and
listening. In this book, Bent examines the words and music of
motets from many different angles: foundational verbal quotations
and pre-existent chant excerpts and their contexts, citations both
of words and music from other compositions, function, dating,
structure, theory, and number symbolism. Individual studies of
these original creations tease out a range of strategies,
ingenuity, playfulness, striking juxtapositions, and even
subversion. Half of the thirty-two chapters consist of new
material; the other half are substantially revised and updated
versions of previously published articles and chapters, organized
into seven Parts. With new analyses of text and music together, new
datings, new attributions, and new hypotheses about origins and
interrelationships, Bent uncovers little-explored dimensions,
provides a window into the craft and thought processes of medieval
composers, and opens up many directions for future work.
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