The Dorset Rotulus: Contextualizing and Reconstructing the Early English Motet

by Margaret Bent, Jared C Hartt, Peter M Lefferts, et al.

The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet.

From its origins in the thirteenth century, the Latin-texted motet in England and France became the most significant and diverse polyphonic genre of the fourteenth, a body of music important both for its texts and its variety of musical structures. However, although the motet in England plays a vital role in the music-historical narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783276185
• ISBN13: 9781783276189
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.6" x 6.9"