The Montpellier Codex: The Final Fascicle. Contents, Contexts, Chronologies: 16 (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1783272724 ISBN 13: 9781783272723

Verlag: Boydell Press, 2018

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A rich and varied crop of compelling scholarship, admirably executed and skilfully assembled by some of the finest minds now working on the music of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. PLAINSONG & MEDIEVAL MUSIC

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The Montpellier Codex (Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H.196) occupies a central place in scholarship on medieval music. This small book, packed with gorgeous gold leaf illuminations, historiated initials, and exquisite music calligraphy, is one of the most famous of all surviving music manuscripts, fundamental to understandings of the development of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphonic composition. At some point in its history an eighth section (fascicle) of 48 folios was appended to the codex: when and why this happened has long perplexed scholars. The forty-three works contained in the manuscript's final section represent a collection of musical compositions, assembled at a complex moment of historical change, straddling the historiographical juncture between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
This book provides the first in-depth exploration of the contents and contexts of the Montpellier Codex's final fascicle. It explores the manuscript's production, dating, function, and notation, offering close-readings of individual works, which illuminate compositionally progressive features of the repertoire as well as its interactions with existing musical and poetic traditions, from a variety of perspectives: thirteenth- and fourteenth-century music, art history, and manuscript culture.

Catherine A. Bradley is an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo; Karen Desmond is Assistant Professor of Music at Brandeis University.

Contributors: Rebecca A. Baltzer, Edward Breen, Sean Curran, Rachel Davies, Margaret Dobby, Mark Everist, Solomon Guhl-Miller, Anna Kathryn Grau, Oliver Huck, Anne Ibos-Augé, Eva M. Maschke, David Maw, Dolores Pesce, Alison Stones, Mary Wolinski

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• Verlag: Boydell Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1783272724
• ISBN 13: 9781783272723
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 351
• Herausgeber: Bradley Catherine A, Desmond Karen