Critical Companion to Medieval Motets

JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. JARED C. HARTT is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. ELIZABETH EVA LEACH is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focuses on song in the medieval West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. GAËL SAINT-CRICQ is Professor of Musicology at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France. MATTHEW P. THOMSON is Assistant Professor in Early Music, University College Dublin. Previously a Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, his research focuses on music of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, including polyphonic motets, monophonic song, and the role of music in literature. MARGARET BENT is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

• Introduction: Approaching Medieval Motets - Jared C. HarttThe Genre(s) of Medieval Motets - Elizabeth Eva LeachOrigins and Interactions: Clausula, Motet, Conductus - Catherine BradleyTracing the Tenor in Medieval Motets - Alice V. ClarkIsorhythm - Lawrence EarpNotations - Karen DesmondThirteenth-Century Motet Functions: Views through the Lens of the Portare Motet Family - Dolores PesceA Prism of its Time: Social Functions of the Motet in Fourteenth-Century France - Jacques BoogaartMotets, Manuscript Culture, Mise-en-page - John Haines and Stefan UdellClerics, Courtiers, and the Vernacular Two-Voice Motet: The Case of Fines amouretes/Fiat and the Roman de la poire - Jennifer SaltzsteinWhen Words Converge and Meanings Diverge: Counterexamples to Polytextuality in the Thirteenth-Century Motet - Suzannah ClarkMotets in Chansonniers and the Other Culture of the French Thirteenth-Century Motet - Gaël Saint-CricqBuilding a Motet around Quoted Material: Textual and Musical Structure in Motets based on Monophonic Songs - Matthew P. ThomsonThe Duet Motet in England: Genre, Tonal Coherence, Reconstruction - Jared C. HarttMateria Matters: Reconstructing Colla/Bona - Anna ZayaruznayaMachaut's Motet 10 and Its Interconnections - Margaret BentA Motet Conceived in Troubled Times: Machaut's Motet 22 - Sarah FullerA Motet Ahead of Its Time? The Curious Case of Portio nature/Ida capillorum - Emily ZazuliaBibliography of Works Cited

[A]n ideal textbook for an in-depth study of the motet, a true companion guiding students and scholars chapter by chapter through the study of the music, texts, sources, interpretive methodologies, analytical techniques, musical and social contexts, and the thought and aesthetics of the era.