Sometimes the Music Wins
Text and Music in a Willaert Madrigal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4390331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Schubert (0000-0003-0964-1173, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Music Theory Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-3040 • E-ISSN: 1067-3040 |
| Publisher | Society for Music Theory (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.30535/mto.27.4.9 |
| OpenAlex | W4205904284 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This study applies Kofi Agawu's proposed method for analyzing texted music (1992), in which the music and the text are analyzed separately before they are considered together, to an early madrigal by Willaert. Focusing primarily on counterpoint, I offer a detailed study of Willaert's complex compositional technique. I show that he responded to the poem in many ways, but at the same time he made many purely musical decisions. Finally, I consider what his motivations for these decisions might have been and enumerate musical means he used to respond to the different aspects of his text
Aesthetics · Art · Counterpoint · Literature · Musical · Pedagogy · Poetry · African history and culture analysis · Media, Communication, and Education · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |