| Description |
xi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"This collection of essays ... grew out of a conference, Hearing the Motet, held at Washington University in February 1994"--Introduction |
| Contents |
The polyphonic progeny of an Et gaudebit: assessing family relations in the thirteenth-century motet / Rebecca A. Baltzer -- Beyond glossing: the old made new in Mout me fu grief/Robin m'aime/Portare / Dolores Pesce -- Which Vitry? the witness of the Trinity motet from the Roman de Fauvel / Anne Walters Robertson -- Polyphony of texts and music in the fourteenth-century motet: Tribum que non abhorruit/Quoniam secta latronum/Merito hec patimur and its "quotations" / Margaret Bent -- Du Fay and the cultures of Renaissance Florence / Robert Nosow -- For whom the bell tolls: reading and hearing Busnoys's Anthoni usque limina / Rob C. Wegman -- Love and death in the fifteenth-century motet: a reading of Busnoys's Anima mea liquefacta est/Stirps Jesse / Paula Higgins -- Obrecht as exegete: reading Factor orbis as a Christmas sermon / M. Jennifer Bloxam -- Conflicting levels of meaning and understanding in Josquin's O admirabile commercium motet cycle / Richard Sherr -- Josquin, Good King René, and O bone et dulcissime Jesu / Patrick Macey -- Miracles, motivicity, and mannerism: Adrian Willaert's Videns Dominus flentes sorores Lazari and some aspects of motet composition in the 1520s / Joshua Rifkin -- Lasso as historicist: the cantus-firmus motets / James Haar -- Tonal compass in the motets of Orlando di Lasso / David Crook -- Palestrina as reader: motets from the Song of songs / Jessie Ann Owens -- On William Byrd's Emendemus in melius / Joseph Kerman -- Byrd, the Catholics, and the motet: the hearing reopened / Craig Monson. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Motets -- 500-1400 -- Congresses.
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Motets. |
| Chronological Term |
500-1400 |
| Subject |
Motets -- 15th century -- Congresses.
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| Chronological Term |
15th century |
| Subject |
Motets -- 16th century -- Congresses.
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| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Pesce, Dolores.
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| Added Title |
Essays on the motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance |
| ISBN |
0195097092 |
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