Full Description
Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era provides new dimensions to the discussion of the immense corpus of polyphonic motets produced and performed in the decades following the end of the Council of Trent in 1563. Beyond the genre's rich connections with contemporary spiritual life and religious experience, the motet is understood here as having a multifaceted life in transmission, performance and reception. By analysing the repertoire itself, but also by studying its material life in books and accounts, in physical places and concrete sonic environments, and by investigating the ways in which the motet was listened to and talked about by contemporaries, the eleven chapters in this book redefine the cultural role of the genre. The motet, thanks to its own protean nature, not bound to any given textual, functional or compositional constraint, was able to convey cultural meanings powerfully, give voice to individual and collective identities, cross linguistic and confessional divides, and incarnate a model of learned and highly expressive musical composition. Case studies include considerations of composers (Palestrina, Victoria, Lasso), cities (Seville and Granada, Milan), books (calendrically ordered collections, non-liturgical music books) and special portions of the repertoire (motets pro defunctis, instrumental intabulations).
Contents
List of figures
Music examples
List of tables
List of contributors
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
The motet in the post-Tridentine world: an introduction
ESPERANZA RODRÍGUEZ-GARCÍA AND DANIELE V. FILIPPI
1 Proper to the day: calendrical ordering in post-Tridentine motet books
DAVID CROOK
2 Motets, Vespers antiphons and the performance of the post-Tridentine liturgy in Italy
JEFFREY KURTZMAN
3 Motets and the liturgy for the Dead in Italy: text typologies and contexts of performance
ANTONIO CHEMOTTI
4 Motets pro defunctis in the Iberian world: texts and performance contexts
OWEN REES
5 Palestrina's mid-life compositional summary: the three motet books of 1569-75
NOEL O'REGAN
6 Modality as orthodoxy and exegesis: strategies of tonal organisation in Victoria's motets
MARCO MANGANI AND DANIELE SABAINO
7 Beyond the denominational paradigm: the motet as confessional(ising) practice in the later sixteenth century
CHRISTIAN THOMAS LEITMEIR
8 In search of the English motet
KERRY MCCARTHY
9 Songs without words: the motet as solo instrumental music after Trent
JOHN GRIFFITHS
10 The soundtrack for a miracle and other stories of the motet from post-Tridentine Milan
DANIELE V. FILIPPI
11 Mapping the motet in post-Tridentine Seville and Granada: Repertoire, meanings and functions
JUAN RUIZ JIMÉNEZ
Index of names
Index of musical prints
