Montpellier Codex

Regular price €107.99
Regular price €108.99 Sale Sale price €107.99
A01=Catherine A. Bradley
A01=Karen Desmond
A32=Anna Kathryn Grau
A32=Anne Ibos-Augé
A32=David Maw
A32=Dolores Pesce
A32=Edward George Breen
A32=Eva M. Maschke
A32=Karen Desmond
A32=Professor Alison Stones
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Catherine A. Bradley
Author_Karen Desmond
automatic-update
B01=Catherine Bradley
B01=Karen Desmond
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AVC
Category=AVGC2
Category=AVLA
Category=CFL
Category=DSBB
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
early music
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
manuscripts
Music
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch

Product details

  • ISBN 9781783272723
  • Weight: 878g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Feb 2018
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

The final section of the Montpellier Codex analysed in full for the first time, with major implications for late-medieval music. The Montpellier Codex (Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H.196) occupies a central place in scholarship on medieval music. This small book, packed with gorgeous gold leaf illuminations, historiated initials, and exquisite music calligraphy, is one of the most famous of all surviving music manuscripts, fundamental to understandings of the development of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphonic composition. At some point in its historyan eighth section (fascicle) of 48 folios was appended to the codex: when and why this happened has long perplexed scholars. The forty-three works contained in the manuscript's final section represent a collection of musical compositions, assembled at a complex moment of historical change, straddling the historiographical juncture between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This book provides the first in-depth exploration of the contents and contexts of the Montpellier Codex's final fascicle. It explores the manuscript's production, dating, function, and notation, offering close-readings of individual works, which illuminate compositionally progressive features of therepertoire as well as its interactions with existing musical and poetic traditions, from a variety of perspectives: thirteenth- and fourteenth-century music, art history, and manuscript culture. CATHERINE A. BRADLEY isan Associate Professor at the University of Oslo; KAREN DESMOND is Assistant Professor of Music at Brandeis University. Contributors: Rebecca A. Baltzer, Edward Breen, Sean Curran, Rachel Davies, Margaret Dobby, Mark Everist, Solomon Guhl-Miller, Anna Kathryn Grau, Oliver Huck, Anne Ibos-Augé, Eva M. Maschke, David Maw, Dolores Pesce, Alison Stones, Mary Wolinski