Göllner, Marie Louise
Essays on music and poetry in the late middle ages

Eleven essays on music theory, liturgical chants and their polyphonic settings, the medieval motet, the chansons of Guillaume de Mauchaut, and vocal vs. instrumental. Contents: I. Music Theory: Marchettus of Padua and Chromaticism. - Musical and Poetic Rhythm in the 13th Century. - II. Liturgical Chants and their Polyphonic Settings: Musical Settings of the Trope Ab hac familia. - Migrant Tropes in the Late Middle Ages. - Praeter rerum seriem. Its History and Sources. - Settings of the Song of Songs in the Late Middle Ages. - III. The Medieval Motet: The Transmission of French Motets in German and Italian Manuscripts of the 14th Century. - The Third Rhythmic Mode in the 13th and 14th Centuries. - Mode and Change of Mode in the 13th-Century Motet. - Rhythm and the Rhythmic Modes in the Late 13th Century. - Rhythm and Pattern: The Two-Voice Motets of Codex Montpellier. - IV. The Chansons of Guillaume de Machaut: Musical and Poetic Structure in the Refrain Forms of Machaut. - "Un Res d'Alemaigne". - Interrelationships between Text and Music in the Refrain Forms of Guillaume de Machaut. - Guillaume de Machaut. Notation and the Compositional Process. - V. Vocal vs. Instrumental: On the Process of Lute Intabulation in the 16th Century. VIII,277 Seiten mit zahlreichen Notenbeispielen, Leinen (Münchner Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte; Band 61/Verlag Hans Schneider 2003)