Dolores Pesce is Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her academic specialties include late nineteenth-century music, particularly the music of Franz Liszt and Edward MacDowell, and medieval music, with an emphasis on thirteenth-century motets and medieval theory.
"The concept behind Hearing the Motet inspired scholars to
contribute a diverse array of essays representing major currents in
motet research and detailing significant findings about composers,
works, chronology, contexts, and interpretive strategies. The book
also contains a number of inclusive speculations--most notably on
matters pertaining to the liturgical function of motets and on
details of specific interpretations--as well as suggestions for
further research, indicating that the future of motet research is
wide-open and vital....In an era of increasing specialization,
[this book] offers those interested in medieval and Renaissance
motets a chance to
see beyond the limits of a particular repertory and benefit from a
rich cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches."--Notes
"This collection of essays by leading scholars explores sacred
vocal polyphony from the 12th through the late 16th centuries. The
emphasis is less on broad stylistic or historical trends than on
the insights offered by particular compositions and on the tools of
critical interpretation....These essays are as different as the
motets they consider, but all share a concern for the close reading
of musical and verbal texts and an interest in exploring original
and
present intellectual, political, and artistic
contexts."--Choice
"[I]mpressive collection of essays by leading scholars in the
field...This engaging collection of essays, in demonstrating the
importance of a more integrated approach to the musico-poetic
aspects of these works, succeeds also in showing ways in which
comparative studies of motets might be profitably pursued in the
future."--Journal of the American Musicological Society
"A fine collection of scholarly essays."--Early Music Review
"There is much to admire in this book, and its battery of scholars
has allowed us to turn up the volume on the distant exchanges of
past lives and hear them magnified in the music itself."--Times
Literary Supplement
"The concept behind Hearing the Motet inspired scholars to
contribute a diverse array of essays representing major currents in
motet research and detailing significant findings about composers,
works, chronology, contexts, and interpretive strategies. The book
also contains a number of inclusive speculations--most notably on
matters pertaining to the liturgical function of motets and on
details of specific interpretations--as well as suggestions for
further research, indicating that the future of motet research is
wide-open and vital....In an era of increasing specialization,
[this book] offers those interested in medieval and Renaissance
motets a chance to
see beyond the limits of a particular repertory and benefit from a
rich cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches."--Notes
"This collection of essays by leading scholars explores sacred
vocal polyphony from the 12th through the late 16th centuries. The
emphasis is less on broad stylistic or historical trends than on
the insights offered by particular compositions and on the tools of
critical interpretation....These essays are as different as the
motets they consider, but all share a concern for the close reading
of musical and verbal texts and an interest in exploring original
and
present intellectual, political, and artistic
contexts."--Choice
"...one is constantly struck by the high levels of musical and
intellectual engagement with the subject matter, and just how much
there is to take away and re-use from each of the essays in the
collection....Hearing the Motet is a valuable collection of essays;
it has been carefully assembled and is well planned and well
edited. It marks a particular point in the development of research
on the motet, and will be the yardstick by which other studies
will be judged."--Music and Letters
"[I]mpressive collection of essays by leading scholars in the
field...this engaging collection of essays, in demonstrating the
importance of a more integrated approach to the musico-poetic
aspects of these works, succeeds also in showing ways in which
comparative studies of motets might be profitably pursued in the
future."--Journal of the American Musicological Society
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