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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2015
      02 April 2015
      ISBN:
      9781139626293
      9781107039667
      9781108458122
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626293
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.79kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 319 Pages
      • Series:
      Music in Context
      Subjects:
      Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Criticism, Music Performance
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    Series:
    Music in Context
    Subjects:
    Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Criticism, Music Performance
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    Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the works of composers Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, and their contemporaries. Aligning the larger forms of motets with the broad sacred and secular themes of their texts, Zayaruznaya shows how monstrous or hybrid exempla are musically sculpted by rhythmic and textural means. These divisive musical procedures point to the contradictory aspects not only of explicitly monstrous bodies, but of such apparently unified entities as the body politic, the courtly lady, and the Holy Trinity. Zayaruznaya casts a new light on medieval modes of musical representation, with profound implications for broader disciplinary narratives about the history of text-music relations, the emergence of musical unity, and the ontology of the musical work.

    Awards

    Winner, 2019 John Nicholas Brown Prize, The Medieval Academy of America

    Reviews

    ‘A thoroughly excellent, original, important, and thought-provoking book, which will prove to be of great interest to a broad constituency of readers in musicology.'

    Elizabeth Eva Leach - University of Oxford

    'Zayaruznaya's book provides compelling new insights into one of the most prominent and least understood genres of late-medieval music.'

    Karl Kügle - Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

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