Quoting, Rethinking and Copying: A Few Remarks on the Tradition of the Monophonic Cantio in Central Europe
2014
Abstrakt
The following text attempts to describe how the Central European cantio was created and transmitted during the late Middle Ages. Analyzing the compositions Audi tellus, Ave maris stella and Sol nascitur de sidere, which were passed on throughout a long time period, we will try to demonstrate how three distinctive principles - quoting, rethinking and copying - affected the tradition of particular themes, texts and melodies.
We will be able to prove that a clear shift from rethinking and expanding to simple copying and reshaping took place at the very end of the Middle Ages.
