Composers in the Middle Ages (eBook)

Anne-Zoe Rillon-Marne, Gael Saint-Cricq (Herausgeber)

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2024
336 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80543-472-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A reflection on the idea of the "e;composer"e; in the medieval period, including a study of the individuals and groups active in the creation of medieval music.The modern concept of the individual composer is central to accounts of Western music, and continues to represent a critical field of research in musicology. However, this approach cannot be straightforwardly transposed to the Middle Ages, as it does not reflect the complex creative realities of medieval composition, and conflicts with the evidence from extant sources and documentation.This collection, the first full-length study of the subject, questions and revises the concept of the composer for the medieval period through five thematic parts: 'Historiographical Critique', 'Ascriptions, Attributions, Signatures', 'Medieval Constructions of Authority and of the Authorial Persona', 'The Composing Workshop', and 'Composers as Communities'. Spanning a period from the seventh century to the early Renaissance, and taking in different cultural and geographical areas of Western Europe, the essays examine a range of repertoires and fields - plainchant, Latin devotional song, medieval motet, trouvere song, Ars nova, drama, and illuminated Gothic manuscripts - in diverse contexts, from clerical communities, to princely courts and lay workshops. Overall, the new perspectives here shed fresh light on the musical practices and repertoires of the Middle Ages.Chapters 6 and 10 are available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• Co-Autor: Margaret Bent, Yolanda Plumley, Anne-Zoe Rillon-Marne, Gael Saint-Cricq, Alison Stones, Anna Zayaruznaya, Catherine A Bradley, Charles E Brewer, Karen Desmond, Brianne Dolce, Estelle Doudet, Mark Everist, Manon Louviot, Henry Parkes
• Zusatzinfo: 2 diagrams, 12 musical exx. and 19 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Anonymous Composers • Ars nova • artistic identity • authorship attribution • biographical studies • Chant Traditions • Composer Networks • French Motets • Liturgical Music • liturgical performance • Manuscript Studies • Medieval Devotional Music • Medieval Musicology • Musical Patronage • Music Composition Techniques • music historiography • Music notation • Notational Practices • Scribe Identification • Trouvère Songs
• ISBN-10: 1-80543-472-1 / 1805434721
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80543-472-6 / 9781805434726