‘En remirant oy chanter: Intermediality in late-medieval song’
The paper focusses on some devices used in Trecento and early Quattrocento music aimed at broadening either familiarity or estrangement between the music and its contemporary users. The analysis of several — well-known — cases of enture or musical grafting suggests that they have been purposely used not only as inter- and paratextual but sometimes also as intermedial devices that strongly connote the hosting pieces. The repertoire discussed includes works by Filippotto da Caserta, Antonio Zacara da Teramo, Matteo da Perugia and Johannes Ciconia. Main topics are citation, allusion, expectation, torso, paratext, intertextuality, intermediality, nachares, hocket, and — more generally — late-medieval rhetoric and implicit art-theory.
Date: 27 October 2016, 17:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2016)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Speaker: Pedro Memelsdorff (Utrecht University, Fondazione Giorgio Cini)
Organising department: Faculty of Music
Part of: Seminar in medieval and renaissance music
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence