Catherine A. Bradley

Polyphony in Medieval Paris

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents new methodologies to explore medieval processes of musical and poetic creation, from plainchant and vernacular French songs to organa, motets and clausulae. Engages with questions of text-music relationships, liturgy, and the development of notational technologies, exploring authorship, originality, practices of quotation and reworking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781108407571
• ISBN-10: 1108407579
• Artikelnr.: 58599531

Autorenporträt

Catherine A. Bradley is Associate Professor at the Universitetet i Oslo. She has published widely on the earliest motets in journals including Speculum, the Journal of Musicology, Music Analysis, and Early Music History.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of musical examples
Acknowledgements
Manuscript sigla
Abbreviations
A note on transcriptions and numbering systems
Introduction
1. Plainchant in polyphony: the gradual Propter Veritatem in organa, clausulae and motets
2. Mini clausulae and the Magnus Liber Organi
3. Texting clausulae: repetition and regularity on the Regnat tenor
4. Transcribing motets: vernacular refrain melodies in Magnus Liber clausulae
5. Framing motets: quoting and crafting refrains against plainchant tenors
6. Intertextuality, song and female voices in motets on a Saint Elizabeth of Hungary tenor
7. From Florence to Fauvel: re-reading musical paradigms through a long-lived Iohanne motet
8. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.