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First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.
List of contents
Introduction: Approaching Medieval Motets - Jared C. Hartt
The Genre(s) of Medieval Motets - Elizabeth Eva Leach
Origins and Interactions: Clausula, Motet, Conductus - Catherine Bradley
Tracing the Tenor in Medieval Motets - Alice V. Clark
Isorhythm - Lawrence Earp
Notations - Karen Desmond
Thirteenth-Century Motet Functions: Views through the Lens of the
Portare Motet Family - Dolores Pesce
A Prism of its Time: Social Functions of the Motet in Fourteenth-Century France - Jacques Boogaart
Motets, Manuscript Culture, Mise-en-page - John Haines and Stefan Udell
Clerics, Courtiers, and the Vernacular Two-Voice Motet: The Case of
Fines amouretes/Fiat and the
Roman de la poire - Jennifer Saltzstein
When Words Converge and Meanings Diverge: Counterexamples to Polytextuality in the Thirteenth-Century Motet - Suzannah Clark
Motets in Chansonniers and the Other Culture of the French Thirteenth-Century Motet - Gaël Saint-Cricq
Building a Motet around Quoted Material: Textual and Muscial Structure in Motets Based on Monophonic Songs - Matthew P. Thomson
The Duet Motet in England: Genre, Tonal Coherence, Reconstruction - Jared C. Hartt
Materia Matters: Reconstructing
Colla/Bona - Anna Zayaruznaya
Machaut's Motet 10 and its Interconnections - Margaret Bent
A Motet Conceived in Troubled Times: Machaut's Motet 22 - Sarah Fuller
A Motet Ahead of its Time? The Curious Case of
Portio nature/Ida capillorum - Emily Zazulia
Bibliography of Works Cited
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Jared C. Hartt
Summary
First full comprehensive guide to one of the most important genres of music in the Middle Ages.
