Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsList of TablesList of Music ExamplesList of Sound ClipsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPART I. COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES1. Theoretical and Terminological Issues2. What is Isorhythm?PART II. THE MARIGNY MOTETS, BEYOND FAUVEL, AND VITRY3. Fauvel and Marigny: Which Came First?4. Tribum que non abhorruit/Quoniam secta latronum/Merito hec patimur and its 'Quotations'; and Garrit gallus/In novaAppendix: Commentary to Tribum/Quoniam; Commentary to Garrit/In nova5. Aman novi/Heu Fortuna/Heu me6. Floret/Florens: Intended for Fauvel?7. Related Manuscripts, Related Motets; Vitry8. Vos quid admiramini/Gratissima virginis species/Gaude gloriosaPART III. MACHAUT9. Words and Music in Machaut's Motet 910. Deception, Exegesis and Sounding Number in Machaut's Motet 1511. The 'Harmony' of the Machaut Mass12. Machaut's Motet 10 and its Interconnections13. Machaut's Motet 18: Bone pastor Guillerme/Bone pastor, qui pastores/Bone pastor14. Text-Music Relationships in Machaut's Motets 4 and 8PART IV. MUSICORUM COLLEGIUM: THE MUSICIAN MOTETS15. Apollinis eclipsatur, its Progeny and their Sources16. Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis/In omnem terram and Later Versions with Added PartsAppendix: Commentaries to Web Transcriptions for the Pieces with Multiple Sources17. Musicalis sciencia/Sciencie laudabili; the Musicians Named in Apollinis and Musicalis18. Musicorum collegio/In templo Dei/Auete19. Alma polis religio/Axe poli cum artica and its Named MusiciansAppendix: Variants to Ex. 19.1, Alma polis religio/Axe poli cum artica20. Sub arturo plebs/Fons citharizancium/In omnem terram and its MusiciansAppendix: Variants in Sub Arturo plebs21. Fragmentary Motets and Other Possibly Linked CompositionsPART V. ENGLISH MOTETS C. 1400-142022. The Yoxford Manuscript and the Motet O amicus/Precursoris23. The Yoxford CredoAppendix: Notes to Credo Transcription24. Mayshuet and the Deo gratias Motets in the Old Hall Manuscript25. Old Hall, the Agincourt Motets, and DunstaplePART VI. ITALIAN MOTETS26. The Fourteenth-Century Italian Motet27. The Motet Collection of San Lorenzo 2211 (SL2211) and the Composer Hubertus de Salinis28. The Motets of Johannes Ciconia29. Ciconia, Prosdocimus, and the Workings of Musical Grammar as Exemplified in O felix templum and O PaduaPART VII. MUSIC FOR POPES AND THE COURTS OF BURGUNDY AND CYPRUS30. Early Papal MotetsAppendix: Music for Popes Clement VI to Eugene IV31. Tr?mo?lle RevisitedAppendix: Transcription of Incipits as Listed in the Tr?m Index32. Some Aspects of the Motets in the Cyprus ManuscriptAppendix: The Cyprus MotetsBibliographyIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of CompositionsGeneral Index
