The motet in the age of Du Fay /

The motet in the age of Du Fay /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cumming, Julie Emelyn.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 418 pages) : music
Language:	English
Subject:	Dufay, Guillaume, -- 1397-1474. -- Motets. Motets (Dufay, Guillaume) Motets -- 15th century -- History and criticism. Motets. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117042

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ISBN:	9780511481789 0511481780 0511009267 9780511009266 0511037821 9780511037825 0521473772 9780521473774 0511152442 9780511152443
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	During the lifetime of Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1400-1474) the motet underwent a profound transformation. Because of the protean nature of the motet during this period, problems of definition have always stood in the way of a full understanding of this crucial shift. Through a comprehensive survey of the surviving repertory, Julie Cumming shows that the motet is best understood on the level of the subgenre. She employs new ideas about categories taken from cognitive psychology and evolutionary theory to illuminate the process by which the subgenres of the motet arose and evolved. One important finding is the nature and extent of the crucial role that English music played in the genre's transformation. Cumming provides a close reading of many little-known pieces; she also shows how Du Fay's motets were the product of sophisticated experimentation with generic boundaries.
Other form:	Print version: Cumming, Julie Emelyn. Motet in the age of Du Fay. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521473772

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Models and Methods
1. Approaches and analogies
2. Subgenre, interpretation, and the generic repertoire
3. Fifteenth-century uses of the term 'motet'
Part II. Motets in the Early Fifteenth Century: The Case of Bologna Q15
4. The motet section of Bologna Q15 and its ramifying roots
5. A new hybrid subgenre: the cut-circle motet
6. Other new hybrid subgenres
7. The motet in the early fifteenth century: evolution and interpretation
Part III. Motets in the Mid-Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Trent Codices
8. Motets in the Trent codices: establishing the boundaries
9. English and continental cantilena-style motets
10. Motets with a tenor cantus firmus c. 1430âÇô1450
11. Freely composed four-voice writing in transition
12. The four-voice motet c. 1450âÇô1475