Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet write by Sylvia Huot. This book was released on 1997. Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the literary artistry of the texts of Old French and bilingual motets, notably the special feature of motets that distinguished them from other medieval lyric forms: the phenomenon of polytextuality.
French Motets in the Thirteenth Century
French Motets in the Thirteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French Motets in the Thirteenth Century write by Mark Everist. This book was released on 2004-11-11. French Motets in the Thirteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first full-length study of the vernacular motet in thirteenth-century France. The motet was the most prestigious type of music of that period, filling a gap between the music of the so-called Notre-Dame School and the Ars Nova of the early fourteenth century. This book takes the music and the poetry of the motet as its starting-point and attempts to come to grips with the ways in which musicians and poets treated pre-existing material, creating new artefacts. The book reviews the processes of texting and retexting, and the procedures for imparting structure to the works; it considers the way we conceive genre in the thirteenth-century motet, and supplements these with principles derived from twentieth-century genre theory. The motet is viewed as the interaction of literary and musical modes whose relationships give meaning to individual musical compositions.
Discarding Images
Discarding Images - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discarding Images write by Christopher Page. This book was released on 1997. Discarding Images available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For many centuries, the Western imagination has picture the medieval period as a kind of odyssey: a journey that took Mankind to a strange country and ended in the Renaissance with his homecoming and the restoration of his inheritance. In this stimulating and provocative book, Christopher Pageexplores the kinds of generalization that we habitually make about `the Middle Ages' and which, whether we know it or not, sustain the false image of medieval odyssey. In chapters that proceed chronologically from the thirteenth century to the fifteenth, he examines what we suppose to be theserenity of medieval reflection on such matters as the `numerical' explanation of musical beauty, and he questions the modern tendency to regard Ars antiqua motets as music for `an intellectual elite'. Turning to the Ars nova and beyond, he discusses the relation between fourteenth-centuryinnovations and contemporary science. A final chapter explores the powerful influence on Joan Juizinga's classic The Waning of the Middle Ages, upon musicology. Page's lively prose if full of ideas, is based upon first-hand learning, and is enriched by an uncommonly deep experience of medievalmusic.
Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres
Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres write by Samuel N. Rosenberg. This book was released on 2013-09-05. Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Flower of Paradise
The Flower of Paradise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flower of Paradise write by David J. Rothenberg. This book was released on 2011-09-14. The Flower of Paradise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a striking similarity between Marian devotional songs and secular love songs of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Two disparate genres--one sacred, the other secular; one Latin, the other vernacular--both praise an idealized, impossibly virtuous woman. Each does so through highly stylized derivations of traditional medieval song forms--Marian prayer derived from earlier Gregorian chant, and love songs and lyrics from medieval courtly song. Yet despite their obvious similarities, the two musical and poetic traditions have rarely been studied together. Author David J. Rothenberg takes on this task with remarkable success, producing a useful and broad introduction to Marian music and liturgy, and then coupling that with an incisive comparative analysis of these devotional forms and the words and music of secular love songs of the period. The Flower of Paradise examines the interplay of Marian devotional and secular poetics within polyphonic music from ca. 1200 to ca. 1500. Through case studies of works that demonstrate a specific symbolic resonance between Marian devotion and secular song, the book illustrates the distinctive ethos of this period in European culture. Rothenberg makes use of an impressive command of liturgical and religious studies, literature and poetry, and art history to craft a study with wide application across disciplinary boundaries. With its broad scope and unique, incisive analysis, this book will open up new ways of thinking about the history and development of secular and sacred music and the Marian tradition for scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in medieval and Renaissance religious culture.
