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The Montpellier codex, the final fascicle : contents, context, chronologies

Title
The Montpellier codex, the final fascicle : contents, context, chronologies / edited by Catherine A. Bradley, Karen Desmond.
Publication
  • Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Bradley, Catherine A.
  • Desmond, Karen
Description
xiv, 333 pages : illustrations (some color), music; 24 cm
Summary
  • Essays exploring the contents and contexts of the Montpellier codex's fascicle 8, including the manuscript's production, dating, function, and notation, as well as close-readings of individual works which illuminate compositionally progressive features and interactions with existing musical and poetic traditions. The included essays provide a variety of perspectives on thirteenth- and fourteenth century music, art history, and manuscript culture.
  • "The Montpellier Codex (Montpellier, Biliothèque interuniversitaire, Bibliothèque universitaire de médecine, H. 196) occupies a central place in the 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 Code'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." -- Publisher's description
Series Statement
Studies in medieval and renaissance music, 1479-9294 ; 16
Uniform Title
Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 16.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Derived from an international conference titled Monpellier 8, held 20-21 March, 2014, at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, England.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page [299]-311) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction / Catherine A. Bradley and Karen Desmond -- Montpellier 8 : anatomy of ... / Mark Everist -- A palaeographical analysis of the verbal text in Montpellier 8 / Sean Curran -- The style and iconography of Montpellier folio 35or / Alison Stones -- The decoration of Montpellier 8 : its place in the continuum of Parisian manuscript illumination / Rebecca A. Baltzer -- Double motet layouts in the Montpellier codex and contemporaneous Libri motetorum / Oliver Huck -- Deus in adiutorium revisited : sources and context / Eva M. Maschke -- Thematic clusters and compilational strategies in Montpellier 8 / Anna Kathryn Grau -- Texture, rhythm, and stylistic groupings in Montpellier 8 motets / Karen Desmond -- Je le temoin en mon chant : the art of diminution in the Petronian triplum / David Maw -- How rhythmically innovative is Montpellier 8? / Mary E. Wolinski -- Re-presentation in the Ars antiqua : from chant to polyphony / Solomon Guhl-Miller -- ...Que ne dit 'cief bien seans' : quoting motets in Montpellier 8 / Anne Ibos-Augé -- Montpellier 8 PORTARE motets and tonal exploration / Dolores Pesce -- Repetitions, rhythmical evolution, and rhetoric in the Montpellier codex / Margaret Dobby -- Shedding light on Mo 8,304, Alma virgo virginum/Benedicta es, Maria / Rachel Davies -- A performance and reception history of On parole/A Paris/FRESE NOUVELE / Edward Breen.
Call Number
JME 18-334
ISBN
  • 9781783272723
  • 1783272724
OCLC
1028640283
Title
The Montpellier codex, the final fascicle : contents, context, chronologies / edited by Catherine A. Bradley, Karen Desmond.
Publisher
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
notated music
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Studies in medieval and renaissance music, 1479-9294 ; 16
Studies in medieval and Renaissance music ; 16.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page [299]-311) and indexes.
Chronological Term
500-1400
Added Author
Bradley, Catherine A., editor.
Desmond, Karen, editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Montpellier Codex. Rocheseter, NY : The Boydell Press, 2018 9781787441828 (OCoLC)1021174123
Research Call Number
JME 18-334
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