The monstrous new art: divided forms in the late medieval motet
Anna Zayaruznaya, Yale University
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- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015
- Copyright:
- ©2015
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- Summary:
- Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the works of composers Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, and their contemporaries. Aligning the larger forms of motets with the broad sacred and secular themes of their texts, Zayaruznaya shows how monstrous or hybrid exempla are musically sculpted by rhythmic and textural means. These divisive musical procedures point to the contradictory aspects not only of explicitly monstrous bodies, but of such apparently unified entities as the body politic, the courtly lady, and the Holy Trinity. Zayaruznaya casts a new light on medieval modes of musical representation, with profound implications for broader disciplinary narratives about the history of text-music relations, the emergence of musical unity, and the ontology of the musical work [Publisher description]
- Table of Contents:
- Songs alive
- How (not) to write a motet : the exemplary In virtute/Decens
- Motet visions of an apocalyptic statue
- Interlude : Nebuchadnezzar's dream
- Ars nova and division.
- Author/Creator:
- Zayaruznaya, Anna , author
- Languages:
- English
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- English text.
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-292) and index (pages 293-301.)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
- Call Numbers:
- ML1427.2 .Z39 2014
- ISBNs:
- 9781107039667
1107039665 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2014029904
- OCLC Numbers:
- 885983643