Composing Community in Late Medieval Music

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.
ISBN: 9781108465595
Author: Jane D. Hatter
Page: 281
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: English

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When we sing lines in which a fifteenth-century musician uses ethereal polyphony to complain mundanely about money or hoarseness, more than half a millennium melts away. Equally intriguing are moments in which we experience solmization puns. These familiar worries and surprising jests break down temporal distances, humanizing the lives and endeavors of our musical forebears. Yet many instances of self-reference occur within otherwise serious pieces. Are these simply in-jokes, or are there more meaningful messages we risk neglecting if we dismiss them as comic relief? Music historian Jane D. Hatter takes seriously the pervasiveness of these features. Divided into two sections, this study considers pieces with self-referential features in the texts separately from discussions of pieces based on musical self-referential elements.

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