Motet Cycles between Devotion and Liturgy

Daniele V. Filippi (1975) is a musicologist (PhD 2004, University of Pavia/Cremona). Since 2014 he is a SNF research fellow at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / FHNW. Among his recent publications is the book Mapping the Motet in the Post-Tridentine Era, coedited with Esperanza Rodríguez García.Agnese Pavanello (1964) is a research associate at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / FHNW. Among her recent publications is the edition of Gaspar van Weerbeke's masses. She directed the research project Motet Cycles (c.1470-c.1510). Compositional design, performance, and cultural context (see motetcycles.com).

This book explores the corpus of motet cycles composed and disseminated in manuscript and printed sources of polyphony c.1470-c.1510 (including, but not limited to, the motetti missales). The different chapters investigate issues of textual and musical design, function, and performance, at the same time illuminating the rich devotional and cultural context in which this fascinating repertory flourished.About the seriesSince its establishment in 1933, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland / Basel Academy of Music) has been involved in the research of historical musical practice. The series Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta presents topical subjects and research results mostly in monographic form, whereby a broad spectrum of issues and presentation formats is cultivated. The publications are intended not only for specialists, but also for students and interested persons outside the immediate field, and in this way encourage an in-depth occupation with the diversity of Early Music.

Motet cycles revealed in their multifarious connections with late medieval devotion and liturgy

Motet cycles revealed in their multifarious connections with late medieval devotion and liturgy

I: Between Devotion and LiturgyAndrew Kirkman: Structure and Meaning in the Mass: The Ordinarium Missae and BeyondRobert Nosow: Simultaneous Ceremonies at the Collegiate Church of St. Donatian in BrugesDaniele V. Filippi: Where Devotion and Liturgy Meet: Reassessing the Milanese Roots of the Motetti missalesFañch Thoraval: Horologia Passionis: Hours, Hymns, and Motet Cycles for the Cross and the PassionII: Fashioning the Shape and Sound of Prayer TextsHana Vlhová-Wörner: Liturgical Poetry and Poetical Liturgy: The Texts of Motet Cycles as a Continuation of Earlier Textual PracticeMarco Gozzi: Sequence Texts in Transmission (ca. 1200-ca. 1500)Eva Ferro: "Old Texts for New Music"? Textual and Philological Observations on the cycles Salve mater salvatoris and Ave Domine Iesu Christe from Librone 1III: Milan, Motet Cycles, JosquinJoshua Rifkin: Milan, Motet Cycles, Josquin: Further Thoughts on a Familiar TopicIV: In the Cycle Workshop: Case StudiesAgnese Pavanello: Praying to Mary: Another Look at Gaspar van Weerbeke's Marian Motetti missalesFrancesco Rocco Rossi: Surveying the First Gaffurius Codex: Reconsiderations on the Motetti missales ParadigmClare Bokulich: Metre and the Motetti missales?Felix Diergarten: Gaude flore virginali - Message from the "Black Hole"?