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Voci pari Motets and Convent Polyphony in the 1540s: The materna lingua Complex.
| Title: | Voci pari Motets and Convent Polyphony in the 1540s: The materna lingua Complex. |
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| Authors: | STRAS, LAURIE |
| Source: | Journal of the American Musicological Society; Fall2017, Vol. 70 Issue 3, p617-696, 80p |
| Abstract: | In the 1540s the great Venetian publishing houses of Scotto and Gardano issued a cluster of publications whose title pages advertised a particular vocal disposition--"voci pari," or equal voices. Analysis of the motets, their texts, and their musical treatment reveals an intimate connection with convents and conventual worship. In this article I describe the relationships between the books, speculate as to how convents might have used the motets, and consider what the works can tell us about performance practice in femalevoice ensembles. Drawing on aspects of the books' publication history, the liturgical function of certain texts, and musical relationships with works composed at the Ferrarese court, I propose a candidate for the composer of at least some of the anonymous pieces in Musica quinque vocum: motteta materna lingua vocata (RISM 1543²): Suor Leonora d'Este (1515-75), daughter of Duke Alfonso I d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia and the abbess of the convent of Corpus Domini in Ferrara. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | MOTETS, CHANSONS (Renaissance music), ISORHYTHM, PAPYRUS manuscripts, CHORAL music |
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| ISSN: | 00030139 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/jams.2017.70.3.617 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |