The Dorset Rotulus - Contextualizing and Reconstructing the Early English Motet

The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Source and Its Contents
2. Contexts and Designs
3. Voice-Exchange Motets and Ascendenti sonet geminacio/ Viri Galilei
4. Margareta pascens oves and Its Large-Scale Comparands
5. Rota versatilis: Towards a Reconstruction
6. The Curious Case of Regina preminencie/ Gemma nitens/ ...mater es intacta
7. Introducing Naufragantes visita/ Navigatrix inclita/ T. Aptatur/ ...velox perpetrat
8. The Musical Rotulus: Artifact, Image, and Attributes
9. Epilogue: Conclusions and Speculation
Appendix. Transcriptions, Texts, and Translations of the Four Dorset Motets
Ascendenti sonet geminacio/ Viri Galilei
Margareta pascens oves
Regina preminencie/ Gemma nitens/ ...mater es intacta
Naufragantes visita/ Navigatrix inclita/ T. Aptatur/ ...velox perpetrat
Bibliography
Index

About the author

MARGARET BENT is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Summary

The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Bent, Jared C Hartt, Jared C (Customer) Hartt, Jared C. Hartt, Jared C. (Customer) Hartt, Peter M Lefferts, Peter M. Lefferts, Peter M. (Contributor) Lefferts, Caroline Palmer
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781783276189
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-618-9
• No. of pages: 418
• Dimensions: 246 mm x 176 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 928 g
• Illustrations: 6 colour, 24 b/w, 106 line illus.
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music; Studies in Medieval and Renais
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics