Description
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution and transformation of the Latin-texted motet during the lifetime of the leading composer of the age, Guillaume Du Fay. The book includes an account of internal and external forces that influenced the transformation of the motet and of fifteenth-century music more generally.
Trade Review' … a marvellous lesson in how to appreciate what remains for most modern music lovers an unfamiliar form.' BBC Music Magazine
'Cumming has provided us with a highly useful and workable map of stylistic change for the motet.' The Times Literary Supplement
' … Cumming writes extremely clearly and is an excellent guide.' The Singer
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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. 1430–1450; 11. Freely composed four-voice writing in transition; 12. The four-voice motet c. 1450–1475.
