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 1–7
Appendix B: Texts and Translations of Motets 60, 62, and 67 from MS N(mo)
Bibliography
Index of Compositions
General Index
Biography
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.
