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Pages: 393
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-12-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The motet was unquestionably one of the most important vocal genres from its inception in late twelfth-century Paris through the Counter-Reformation and beyond.
The Motet in the Age of Du Fay
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Julie E. Cumming
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A re-evaluation of the Latin-texted motet during the age of Du Fay.
The Sound of Writing
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Christopher Cannon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-14 - Publisher: JHU Press

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"This work provides an interdisciplinary and historical exploration of various techniques leveraging writing in order to capture sound. Collectively, the essays
Ritual Meanings in the Fifteenth-Century Motet
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Robert Michael Nosow
Categories: History
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The first large-scale study of how fifteenth-century motets were used across Western Europe, dispelling the mysteries surrounding these outstanding works.
The Sense of Sound
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Emma Dillon
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Sense of Sound is a radical recontextualization of French song, 1260-1330. Situating musical sound against sonorities of the city, madness, charivari, and p