Publication

2015 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781107039667
  • ISBN-101107039665
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014029904
  • OCLC Control Number885983643
  • Better World Books9781107039667
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCML1427.2 .Z39 2014
  • LCCML1427.2 .Z39 2015

Description

Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the works of composers Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, and their contemporaries. Aligning the larger forms of motets with the broad sacred and secular themes of their texts, Zayaruznaya shows how monstrous or hybrid exempla are musically sculpted by rhythmic and textural means. These divisive musical procedures point to the contradictory aspects not only of explicitly monstrous bodies, but of such apparently unified entities as the body politic, the courtly lady, and the Holy Trinity. Zayaruznaya casts a new light on medieval modes of musical representation, with profound implications for broader disciplinary narratives about the history of text-music relations, the emergence of musical unity, and the ontology of the musical work [Publisher description]

Subjects

Topics

MotetsMotetteArs novaMusic, frenchHistory and criticismMotets, history and criticismGuillaume de machault, 1284-1370

Other Editions

  • Monstrous New ArtCambridge University Press2015

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