The Montpellier Codex - The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies

The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music.

List of contents

Introduction
Montpellier 8: Anatomy of... - Mark Everist
A palaeographical analysis of the verbal text in Montpellier 8: problems, implications, opportunities - Sean Curran
The style and iconography of Mo folio 350 - Alison Stones
The decoration of Montpellier Fascicle 8: its place in the continuum of Parisian manuscript illumination - Rebecca Baltzer
Double motet layouts in the Montpellier Codex and contemporaneous Libri motetorum - Oliver Huck
Deus in adiutorium revisited: sources and contexts - Eva M. Maschke
Thematic clusters and compilational strategies in Mo 8 - Anna Kathryn Grau
Texture, rhythm, and stylistic groupings in Montpellier's eighth fascicle motets - Karen Desmond
'Je le temoin en mon chant': The art of diminution in the Petronian triplum - David Maw
How rhythmically innovative is the eighth fascicle of the Montpellier Codex? - Mary Wolinski
Re-presentation in the Ars antiqua: from chant to polyphony - Solomon Guhl-Miller
'[.] Que ne dit "cief bien seans"': Quoting Motets in Mo 8 - Anne Ibos-Augé
Montpellier, Fascicle 8 PORTARE Motets and tonal exploration - Dolores Pesce
Repetitions, rhythmical evolution, and rhetoric in the Montpellier Codex - Margaret Dobby
Shedding light on Mo 8,304: Alma virgo virginum/Benedicta es, Maria - Rachel Davies
A performance and reception history of On parole/A Paris/FRESE NOUVELE - Edward George Breen

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Catherine A. Bradley, Karen Desmond

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Bradley, Catherine A. Bradley, Karen Desmond, Anna Kathryn Grau, Anne Ibos-Auge, Alison Stones
• Assisted by: Catherine Bradley (Editor), Catherine (Person) Bradley (Editor), Catherine A (Person) Bradley (Editor), Catherine A. Bradley (Editor), Karen Desmond (Editor), Karen (Author) Desmond (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781783272723
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-272-3
• No. of pages: 351
• Weight: 2 g
• Illustrations: 2 colour, 17 b/w illus.
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music; Studies in Medieval and Renais; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music; Studies in Medieval and Renais
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies