scholarly journals Repetition as Rebirth: A Sung Epitaph for Gautier De Coinci

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Quinlan
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Gautier De Coinci ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
Standard Edition ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract The thirteenth-century prior and poet-musician Gautier de Coinci is known for his extravagant wordplay, which relies on the recursive patterning of verbal sound. This article considers Gautier’s penchant for sonic repetition in the light of the music that frames his book of miracles, focusing on the song Por mon chief reconforter, a chanson à refrain written in the voice of an aging Gautier coming to terms with his imminent death. The song’s exclusion from Frederic Koenig’s standard edition of the Miracles means it has received little scholarly attention, yet its earliest source is linked with Gautier’s original exemplar. The article examines how repeated musico-poetic forms—within the stanza, between stanzas, and in the more temporally extended repetition of contrafacture—interact with notions of temporality and mortality voiced in the song’s texts and contexts, suggesting that such structures reshape the experience of time into one that is less linear, and therefore less final.

William of Auvergne and the Manichees

Traditio ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland J. Teske
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Latin West ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Universe ◽  
The Church ◽  
Scholarly Attention

William of Auvergne became a master of theology in the University of Paris in 1223 and was appointed bishop of Paris by Gregory IX in 1228. William governed the church of Paris until his death in 1249, while continuing to write the works which constitute his immense Magisterium divinale et sapientiale. Despite the fact that he was the first of the thirteenth-century theologians to appreciate the value of the Aristotelian philosophy that poured into the Latin West during the last half of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century, his writings have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. Étienne Gilson has sketched well the impact of the influx of Greek and Arabian philosophical works into the Christian West: Up to the last years of the twelfth century, when the Christian world unexpectedly discovered the existence of non-Christian interpretations of the universe, Christian theology never had to concern itself with the fact that a non-Christian interpretation of the world as a whole, including man and his destiny, was still an open possibility.

The Voice Teacher as Shakespearean Collaborator: Margaret Carrington and John Barrymore

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-158
Author(s):  
Michael A. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Voice Teacher ◽  
Vocal Quality ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Scholarly Attention

In the annals of staged Shakespeare, John Barrymore, Arthur Hopkins, and Robert Edmond Jones have been much honored for their landmark productions of Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919– 20 and 1922–23 seasons. Another collaborator in these revivals, however, has received little scholarly attention: Margaret Carrington, a Canadian-born voice teacher who contributed significantly to the success of these productions by “remaking” Barrymore's voice. Although reviews of Barrymore's performances in the years preceding his Shakespearean debut often mentioned his “monotonous” vocal quality, the result of his studies with Carrington was a vocal instrument of extraordinary range and flexibility. As Heywood Broun remarked in 1923: “Someone ought to write a tale about Barrymore called ‘The Story of a Voice.’ It is one of the most amazing adventures in our theatre. Here was a particularly pinched utterance distinctly marred by slipshod diction. Today it is among the finest voices in the American theatre.”

The adolescence of a thirteenth-century visionary nun

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Kroll ◽  
Roger De Ganck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Competing Hypotheses ◽  
Scholarly Attention

SynopsisAmong the most notable features of the religious revival in western Europe in the early thirteenth century was the development of mysticism among the nuns and religious women of the lowlands. As scholarly attention becomes increasingly focused on this group of remarkable women, the question arises whether a psychiatric viewpoint has something of value to offer to the understanding of such individuals and the culture in which they struggled. The methodological and intellectual problems inherent in examining the life of a thirteenth-century mystic with a twentieth-century empirical frame of reference are illustrated in this study of the adolescence of Beatrice of Nazareth. Beatrice's stormy asceticism, ecstatic states and mood swings lend themselves to potentially competing hypotheses regarding the spiritual and psychopathological significance of her adolescent development and eventual life-course. Common grounds for reconciling these alternative models are discussed.

Guido Guinizzelli

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-81
Author(s):  
David Bowe
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
External Forces ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Literary Networks

Chapter 2 introduces the poetry of Guido Guinizzelli in the context of thirteenth-century literary networks and exchange, especially the tenzone tradition. The chapter focusses on Guinizzelli’s outward-looking version of dialogic subjectivity, through which he refines his poetic voice in relation to, and response to, external forces and others’ voices, including Guittone and Bonagiunta. The analysis of Guinizzelli’s poems, including ‘Al cor gentil’ shows how his subjectivity and poetics develop through the statement and restatement of poetic positions in the dialogic interactions of tenzoni with other poets and in dialogue with the voice of God.

Les doubles hoqués et les motés: Guillaume de Machaut's Hoquetus David

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-173
Author(s):  
JARED C. HARTT
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Vocal Performance ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Ars Nova ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Scholarly Attention

ABSTRACTGuillaume de Machaut's Hoquetus David represents the only extant hocket of the Ars Nova. Although the Hoquetus is among Machaut's most commercially recorded compositions, it has received relatively little scholarly attention: while Daniel Leech-Wilkinson has focused on its rhythmic characteristics and Anne Walters Robertson on its possible raison d'être, many of the Hoquetus's unusual musical features remain unexplored. In Part I of this article, I compare the Hoquetus with Machaut's motets, as well as with thirteenth-century double hockets, in order to shed light on several of the work's anomalies. In Part II, I turn to matters of syntax, concentrating on Machaut's use of the dissonant seventh. I discuss and illustrate Machaut's surprisingly frequent use of the seventh to fifth progression in several passages from the Hoquetus, his motets and the Messe de nostre dame, and in turn demonstrate that the progression indeed constitutes a salient element of his compositional praxis. In Part III, I briefly address the question of method of performance. By inspecting the vocal ranges and melodic activity of the Hoquetus itself, I demonstrate that the Hoquetus David is indeed conducive for vocal performance, and in turn speculate how it might be performed despite its lack of text.

scholarly journals Sounding the ‘Citizen–Patient’: The Politics of Voice at the Hospice des Quinze-Vingts in Post-Revolutionary Paris

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Institutional Management ◽  
New Models ◽  
The Right ◽  
Partially Sighted ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

This essay explores new models of the citizen–patient by attending to the post-Revolutionary blind ‘voice’. Voice, in both a literal and figurative sense, was central to the way in which members of the Hospice des Quinze-Vingts, an institution for the blind and partially sighted, interacted with those in the community. Musical voices had been used by members to collect alms and to project the particular spiritual principle of their institution since its foundation in the thirteenth century. At the time of the Revolution, the Quinze-Vingts voice was understood by some political authorities as an exemplary call of humanity. Yet many others perceived it as deeply threatening. After 1800, productive dialogue between those in political control and Quinze-Vingts blind members broke down. Authorities attempted to silence the voice of members through the control of blind musicians and institutional management. The Quinze-Vingts blind continued to reassert their voices until around 1850, providing a powerful form of resistance to political control. The blind ‘voice’ ultimately recognised the right of the citizen–patient to dialogue with their political carers.

Liturgy and chant in a twelfth-century Exeter missal

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
ANNE MANNION
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Comparative Investigation ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractExeter Cathedral Library and Archives MS 3515 (hereafter EXcl 3515), a notated missal located in Exeter Cathedral, has to date received very little scholarly attention. This neglect may be due to the absence of a liturgical kalendar and evidence of local saints in the Sanctorale. Its assignment to the thirteenth century with a generic English origin suggests that critical questions concerning provenance and dating have been overlooked. The source itself comprises four disparate sections assembled so as to create a complete liturgical cycle. Yet the parts are not as separate as hitherto believed. A comparative investigation reveals not only an Exeter provenance and a twelfth-century dating, but also a new witness to the St Denis/Corbie tradition. Research also reveals unexpected threads of liturgical continuity with the Anglo-Saxon past. As a complete pre-Sarum source of Mass prayers, chants and readings, EXcl 3515 offers a useful lens with which to view a transitional period in the development of a medieval secular liturgy in England. (By contrast, the three dominant cathedrals – Salisbury, York and Hereford – all lack notated chant sources from this period.) EXcl 3515 adds not only significant new data to the current information on secular liturgies, but also challenges accepted theories on the shaping of a distinctive English Use in southwest England.

Dynastic Structures and Capetian Throne-right: The Views of Giles of Paris

Traditio ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 225-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
National History ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Louis The Pious ◽  
William The Conqueror ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The French royal genealogy compiled by Giles of Paris (1160? – before 1224) has received little scholarly attention, but it is an important source for the historical views of Capetian circles at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The work is an elaborate family tree which traces the royal succession from the legendary origins of the Franks to the contemporary heir to the throne, the future Louis VIII, who is identified on the chart as Ludouicus puer. Giles begins with a narrative of the history of Sicambria and of the entry of the Franks into Gaul which he illustrates with a table of the first Merovingians. The family tree then continues, indicating the length of each king's reign and giving historical notes on some rulers. The genealogy is traced in detail from Clovis through the sons of Louis the Pious, but afterward there appear only kings, and rarely their queens, except for the family of Louis VI, whose sons and eldest grandsons are shown. In addition, Giles traces the supposed Merovingian descent of the Carolingians, the descent of the Capetians from Robert the Brave, and the lines of many of the descendants of William the Conqueror. Giles's selection, presentation, and reworking of materials from his sources reveal a view which in some respects is original and in others, while derivative, is an unusually clear sketch of the dynastic schematization of the national history. The genealogy is an outline history of France which, although written at the beginning of a period of great historiographical activity and itself unlike other works of the time, has remained unedited and has never been seriously studied.

Ibn Kammūna at Aleppo

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Y. Tzvi Langermann
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Sa‘d b. Mansūr Ibn Kammūna, a Jewish polymath whose writings are now receiving a good deal of scholarly attention, worked in Baghdad under the aegis of the Mongol rulers and their courtiers. Born early in the thirteenth century, so it seems, he was forced to flee the capital after rioters protested against his book which compared the three revealed monotheistic faiths; he died in the 1280s. His oeuvre includes a treatise on ophthalmology, no longer extant; quotations from it are however available in the writing of another ophthalmologist, Sadaqa ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shādhilī. From these we learn that Ibn Kammūna practiced medicine in Aleppo (Halab).

Miraculous Rhymes: The Writing of Gautier De Coinci. Tony Hunt

Speculum ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-165
Author(s):  
Kathryn Duys
Keyword(s):  
Gautier De Coinci
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