The Motets of Jean Mouton: Assessing Style and Attributions through Performance and Empirical Analysis

Jean Mouton 的经文歌：通过表现和实证分析评估风格和归因

• 批准号: AH/I025522/1
• 负责人: Stephen Rice
• 金额: $ 2.66万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI025522%2F1
• 关键词: Motets; Jean; Mouton; Assessing; Style

The project will raise the profile of Jean Mouton (before 1459-1522), one of the leading musicians of the High Renaissance. Despite being the most significant composer in the royal chapel of France c1500, Mouton is very poorly represented in modern recordings, and his works have not been fully edited: although the Mass settings are available in a modern edition, the motets, of which around 130 are attributed, lack a critical edition and some have not been published at all. Consequently many basic questions -regarding Mouton's style, relationship with contemporaneous and later compositional activity, and the authorship of pieces attributed to him - remain to be answered.The project will focus on the least studied motets in Mouton's output: those still unavailable in any published edition, plus those with conflicting attributions. At the outset the Principal Investigator (PI) will gather sources and make preliminary transcriptions, followed by an intensive rehearsal period. The PI is Director of The Brabant Ensemble, a professional early music group: he will work with this ensemble in rehearsals and a workshop, with two goals in mind. First, the singers' experience and insight into performance questions such as accidental inflections and underlay will feed into the PI's understanding of Mouton's style and hence of the likely authenticity of works attributed to him. Second, the process of exploring this repertoire will contribute to the construction of programmes for concert, a CD recording, and of a radio broadcast which is intended for BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show.In addition to the rehearsal process, the motets will be subjected to empirical analysis of several stylistic points (e.g. the number of dissonances per rhythmic unit, the average length of phrase, and the pitch range of the vocal lines). Taking into account external evidence (such as the proximity of a source attribution to the composer's known whereabouts), the information gleaned from performance experience, and the empirical data, a new understanding of Mouton's music will emerge, which the PI will make public by means of a refereed journal article.Several public events will contribute to knowledge transfer and the impact not only of this project but of the PI's 3-year Fellowship as a whole. A total of four concerts are planned, in Oxford, Southampton, and at music festivals in Cheltenham and York. The two festival concerts will be preceded by public talks illustrating aspects of the work undertaken. Additionally the scholarly community will be addressed via a lecture-recital at the Royal Musical Association annual conference. The CD recording will appear on the Hyperion label, which is globally distributed and well known for its promotion of underexposed repertories.

该项目将提高Jean Mouton（1459-1522年之前）的知名度，他是文艺复兴时期的主要音乐家之一。尽管是法国皇家礼拜堂最重要的作曲家，但穆顿在现代录音中的代表性非常差，他的作品没有被完全编辑：尽管弥撒的背景在现代版本中可用，但大约130首经文歌被认为是缺少关键版本，有些根本没有出版。因此，关于穆顿的风格、与同时代和后来的作曲活动的关系以及他作品的作者身份等许多基本问题仍有待解答。该项目将关注穆顿作品中研究最少的经文歌：那些在任何出版版本中仍然无法找到的经文歌，以及那些归属冲突的经文歌。首先，主要研究者（PI）将收集信息来源并进行初步翻译，然后是密集的排练期。PI是Brabant Ensemble的总监，这是一个专业的早期音乐团体：他将与这个乐团一起排练和工作坊，有两个目标。首先，歌手们对表演问题的经验和洞察力，如意外的音调变化和音调变化，将有助于PI对穆顿风格的理解，从而有助于他对作品可能的真实性的理解。第二，对这一曲目的探索过程将有助于音乐会、CD唱片和BBC广播3台早期音乐节目的广播节目的制作。除了排练过程外，还将对经文歌的几个风格点进行实证分析（例如，每个节奏单元的不和谐音的数量、乐句的平均长度和声线的音高范围）。考虑到外部证据（如来源归属与作曲家已知行踪的接近程度），从演奏经验中收集的信息，以及经验数据，对穆顿音乐的新理解将出现，PI将通过参考期刊文章的方式将其公之于众。几个公共活动将有助于知识转移，不仅是本项目的影响，而且是PI的3-全年的奖学金。计划在牛津、南安普顿以及切尔滕纳姆和约克的音乐节上共举办四场音乐会。在这两场音乐节之前，将举行公开讲座，说明所开展工作的各个方面。此外，学术界将通过讲座独奏会在皇家音乐协会年会上发言。这张CD唱片将出现在全球发行的、以宣传曝光不足的曲目而闻名的唱片公司的唱片上。