TY - BOOK ID - 77985383 TI - The monstrous new art : divided forms in the late medieval motet PY - 2015 SN - 9781107039667 9781139626293 9781316203941 1316203948 1139626299 1107039665 1316190986 1316211312 1316189120 131620944X 1316205770 1316207587 1108458122 1316202070 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Motets KW - Choruses KW - Part songs KW - Part songs, Sacred KW - History and criticism. KW - Vitry, Philippe de, KW - Guillaume, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77985383 AB - Late medieval motet texts are brimming with chimeras, centaurs and other strange creatures. In The Monstrous New Art, Anna Zayaruznaya explores the musical ramifications of this menagerie in the works of composers Guillaume de Machaut, Philippe de Vitry, and their contemporaries. Aligning the larger forms of motets with the broad sacred and secular themes of their texts, Zayaruznaya shows how monstrous or hybrid exempla are musically sculpted by rhythmic and textural means. These divisive musical procedures point to the contradictory aspects not only of explicitly monstrous bodies, but of such apparently unified entities as the body politic, the courtly lady, and the Holy Trinity. Zayaruznaya casts a new light on medieval modes of musical representation, with profound implications for broader disciplinary narratives about the history of text-music relations, the emergence of musical unity, and the ontology of the musical work. ER -