The Malmariée in the Thirteenth-Century Motet

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant.

Autorentext

Dolores Pesce is Avis Blewett Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis, specializing in music of the Middle Ages and the late nineteenth century. Her books include The Affinities and Medieval Transposition; Hearing the Motet: Essays on the Motet of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Guido d'Arezzo's Regule rithmice, Prologus in antiphonarium, and Epistola ad Michahelem: A Critical Text and Translation; and Liszt's Final Decade.

Klappentext

This monograph offers a comprehensive study of the topos of the malmariée or the unhappily married woman within the thirteenth-century motet repertory, a vocal genre characterized by several different texts sounding simultaneously over a foundational Latin chant.

Inhalt

List of Music Examples

List of Manuscripts

List of Abbreviations

Manscripts

Other Abbreviations

Introduction

Marriage: Mutual Consent and Marital Debt

Portrayals of Marriage in Literature and Song

Part I. Malmariée Motets in Relationship to Their Tenors

1 Paschal Season Liturgy

2 Assumption Liturgy

3 Other Liturgical Tenors

4 French Tenors and French Text Only

Part II. Malmariée Motet Refrains within an Intertextual Nexus

5 Motet Refrains Shared with Other Genres

With a Song and a Romance or Narrative Poem

With One or More Songs

With a Narrative Poem

Concluding Remarks

6 Motet Refrains Shared with Other Motets

Mo 6, 233

Mo 5, 148

Mo 2, 23 and Mo 5, 142

Mo 2, 30

Conclusion

Contents

Transmission and Intertextuality

Appendix A: Tables 17

Appendix B: Texts and Translations of Motets 60, 62, and 67 from MS N(mo)

Bibliography

Index of Compositions

General Index