The Motet in the Age of Du Fay

Contents

• Introduction;
• Part I . Models and Methods:
• 1. Approaches and analogies;
• 2. Subgenre, interpretation, and the generic repertoire;
• 3. Fifteenth-century uses of the term 'motet';
• Part II . Motets in the Early Fifteenth Century: The Case of Bologna Q15:
• 4. The motet section of Bologna Q15 and its ramifying roots;
• 5. A new hybrid subgenre: the cut-circle motet;
• 6. Other new hybrid subgenres;
• 7. The motet in the early fifteenth century: evolution and interpretation;
• Part III . Motets in the Mid-Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Trent Codices:
• 8. Motets in the Trent codices: establishing the boundaries;
• 9. English and continental cantilena-style motets;
• 10. Motets with a tenor cantus firmus c. 1430-1450;
• 11. Freely composed four-voice writing in transition;
• 12. The four-voice motet c. 1450- 1475.