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Author : Ardis Butterfield
Release : 2002
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 196/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Poetry and Music in Medieval France by : Ardis Butterfield
Download or read book Poetry and Music in Medieval France written by Ardis Butterfield. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 2003, examines the relationship between poetry and music in medieval France.
Author : Jennifer Saltzstein
Release : 2013
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Rating : 498/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry by : Jennifer Saltzstein
Download or read book The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry written by Jennifer Saltzstein. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the use of the refrain in thirteenth and fourteenth-century French music and poetry, showing how it was skilfully deployed to assert the validity of the vernacular. The relationship between song quotation and the elevation of French as a literary language that could challenge the cultural authority of Latin is the focus of this book. It approaches this phenomenon through a close examination of the refrain, a short phrase of music and text quoted intertextually across thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century musical and poetic genres. The author draws on a wide range of case studies, from motets, trouvère song, plays, romance, vernacular translations, and proverb collections, to show that medieval composers quoted refrains as vernacular auctoritates; she argues that their appropriation of scholastic, Latinate writing techniques workedto authorize Old French music and poetry as media suitable for the transmission of knowledge. Beginning with an exploration of the quasi-scholastic usage of refrains in anonymous and less familiar clerical contexts, the book goeson to articulate a new framework for understanding the emergence of the first two named authors of vernacular polyphonic music, the cleric-trouvères Adam de la Halle and Guillaume de Machaut. It shows how, by blending their craftwith the writing practices of the universities, composers could use refrain quotation to assert their status as authors with a new self-consciousness, and to position works in the vernacular as worthy of study and interpretation. Jennifer Saltzstein is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Oklahoma.
Author : Mark Everist
Release : 2004-11-11
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 043/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis French Motets in the Thirteenth Century by : Mark Everist
Download or read book French Motets in the Thirteenth Century written by Mark Everist. This book was released on 2004-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of the vernacular motet in thirteenth-century France. The motet was the most prestigious type of music of that period, filling a gap between the music of the so-called Notre-Dame School and the Ars Nova of the early fourteenth century. This book takes the music and the poetry of the motet as its starting-point and attempts to come to grips with the ways in which musicians and poets treated pre-existing material, creating new artefacts. The book reviews the processes of texting and retexting, and the procedures for imparting structure to the works; it considers the way we conceive genre in the thirteenth-century motet, and supplements these with principles derived from twentieth-century genre theory. The motet is viewed as the interaction of literary and musical modes whose relationships give meaning to individual musical compositions.
Author : Eliza Zingesser
Release : 2020-03-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stolen Song by : Eliza Zingesser
Download or read book Stolen Song written by Eliza Zingesser. This book was released on 2020-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.
Author : Rebecca Anne Baltzer
Release : 1991
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry by : Rebecca Anne Baltzer
Download or read book The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry written by Rebecca Anne Baltzer. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, five noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship between poetry and music in the Middle Ages. Rebecca A. Baltzer adds notes on the accompanying musical tape made by the professional ensemble Sequentia, which significantly illustrates the topics under consideration, while offering the experience of listening to superb musical performances.
