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

该项目将提高文艺复兴盛期的主要音乐家之一让·穆顿（1459-1522年之前）的知名度。尽管穆顿是1500年法国皇家教堂中最重要的作曲家，但他在现代唱片中的代表性很差，他的作品没有被完全编辑过：尽管弥撒背景在现代版本中可用，但赞美诗，其中约130首被认为是，缺乏关键版本，有些根本没有出版。因此，许多基本问题——关于木桐的风格，与同时代和后来的作曲活动的关系，以及被认为是他的作品的作者——仍然有待回答。该项目将重点关注木顿作品中研究最少的颂词：那些在任何出版版本中仍未出现的颂词，以及那些署名相互矛盾的颂词。在开始时，首席研究员（PI）将收集资料并进行初步转录，随后是密集的排练期。PI是Brabant合奏团的总监，这是一个专业的早期音乐团体：他将在排练和研讨会上与这个合奏团合作，他有两个目标。首先，歌手的经验和对表演问题的见解，如偶然的变化和衬底，将有助于PI对木桐风格的理解，从而判断他的作品可能的真实性。其次，探索这些曲目的过程将有助于构建音乐会节目，CD录音和BBC广播3台早期音乐节目的广播节目。除了排练过程外，还将对颂歌进行几个风格点的实证分析（例如，每个节奏单元的不谐和数，乐句的平均长度和人声线的音高范围）。考虑到外部证据（例如作曲家已知行踪的来源），从表演经验中收集到的信息，以及经验数据，对木桐音乐的新理解将会出现，PI将通过一篇经过评审的期刊文章将其公之于众。一些公共活动将有助于知识转移，不仅是这个项目的影响，而且是PI为期三年的奖学金的整体影响。他们计划在牛津、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。在这两场节日音乐会之前，将举行公开讲座，介绍所开展工作的各个方面。此外，学术界将在皇家音乐协会年度会议上通过讲座独奏会进行演讲。CD录音将出现在Hyperion标签上，该标签在全球发行，并以其推广曝光不足的曲目而闻名。

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.