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‘Aut Propter Devotionem, aut Propter Sonoritatem’ Compositional Design of Late Fifteenth-Century Elevation Motets in Perspective

Type of publication Peer-reviewed
Publikationsform Review article (peer-reviewed)
Author Diergarten, Felix
Project Cicli di mottetti tra Quattro e Cinquecento: funzione, performance, e disegno compositivo nel contesto di pratiche musico-liturgiche e devozionali
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Review article (peer-reviewed)

Journal Journal of the Alamire Foundation
Volume (Issue) 9
Page(s) 61 - 86
Title of proceedings Journal of the Alamire Foundation

Abstract

In this paper I will focus on fifteenth-century century Elevation motets in order to contextualize the Milanese motet cycles in a wider liturgical and musical practice. After discussing the liturgical significance and function of the Elevation, with its rich gestural symbolism, I will explore the extant repertoire with particular regard to the texts and their circulation. The presence of settings of the same texts in different environments will raise the question about the possible existence of narrower ties between the Milanese corpus and other local traditions.
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