IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 820: Porous Borders: Music and Poetry in 14th-Century Polyphony
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Lucia Marchi, Department of Modern Languages DePaul University Chicago / Department of Music & Dance Northeastern Illinois University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Daniel J. DiCenso, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts |
| Paper 820-a | Editing 14th-Century Polyphony: The Musical Side (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Music |
| Paper 820-b | Editing 14th-Century Polyphony: The Textual Side (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Italian, Music |
| Paper 820-c | Dating Landini's Ballatas for Alessandra (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Music |
| Abstract | The text-music relationship in the later Middle Ages (marriage? divorce?) is still hotly debated. Even as the two sciences theoretically became more independent, their connection is evident in musical settings requiring a poetic text, be it courtly, comic, or moralistic. Two papers (Marchi and Vomera) focus on this relationship in editing an early 15th-century manuscript (Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, T.III.2). How does poetry help the musical editor to make appropriate decisions, and vice versa? A third (Abramov-van Rijk) tests such connections in a specific case. Dating the text of a ballata by Francesco Landini and analyzing its music leads to a reconsideration of the chronological evolution of the composer's style. |