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A reflection on the idea of the "composer" in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval music.
List of contents
Introduction: From Composer to Composers
Gaël Saint-Cricq, with Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne I. Historiographical Critique1. Gregory and Friends: Plural Authorities in the History of Romano-Frankish Chant
Henry Parkes2. Inspiration vs Attribution: The Voice of the
Planctus ante nesciaCharles E. Brewer3. Petrus de Cruce, Philippe de Vitry, Notational Epochs, and the Spans of Human Lives
Anna Zayaruznaya II. Ascriptions, Attributions, Signatures4. Composing in the Late Middle Ages: Paradoxes in Anonymity and Attributions
Margaret Bent5. Questions of Signatures and Authorship: Some Elusive Scribes and Artists in Late Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century France
Alison Stones III. Medieval Constructions of Authority and of the Authorial Persona6. Encoded Signatures: Devotion and Artistic Self-Presentation in the Motet
Ferre solet (1373)
Manon Louviot7. The (Critical) Reception of Adam de la Halle's Motets by Petrus de Cruce and His Circle
Catherine A. Bradley IV. The Composing Workshop8. In the Writing Workshop: Composing for the Stage in French during the Long Fifteenth Century
Estelle Doudet9.
Facere,
Componere,
Invenire: Reassembling the Composer in the Long Thirteenth Century
Mark Everist V. Composers as Communities10. W. de Wicumbe as a Composer of Alleluya Rondelli
Karen Desmond11. Rethinking Trouvère: Biographical and Historical Perspectives on Thirteenth-Century Musical Culture
Brianne Dolce12. Encounters of Poets, Composers and Performers in
Ars Nova Song: The Case of Jaquet de Noyon, Minstrel, and the Ballade
Puis que je sui fumeuxYolanda Plumley General bibliography
Index of sources
Index of proper nouns and places
Index of works
About the author
Edited by Anne-Zoé Rillon-Marne and Gaël Saint-Cricq
Summary
A reflection on the idea of the "composer" in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval music.
