Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music: Jean Widaman, The Mass Ordinary Settings of Arnold de Lantins: A Case Study in the Transmission of Early Fifteenth-century Music (PhD, Brandeis University, 1988)

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Resources Introduction Music Editions Doctoral Dissertations Clark, A. Cuthbert, M. Lefferts, P.M. Peck Leverett, A. Rico, G. Sandon, N. Widaman, J. Williamson, M. Appendices and Errata lists	Jean Widaman, The Mass Ordinary Settings of Arnold de Lantins: A Case Study in the Transmission of Early Fifteenth-century Music (PhD, Brandeis University, 1988) Page Contents PDF Download Links Abstract Table of Contents Volume I Volume II PDF Download Links Volume 1 (10.6 MB) \| Volume 2 (4.3 MB) These PDFs are made up of images of the original dissertation. They have been scanned using optical character recognition and should therefore be searchable within Adobe Acrobat. This process is not perfect, however, so an electronic search of the documents should not be considered exhaustive. Back to top Abstract Arnold de Lantins, a composer widely represented in the musical sources of the 1420s and 1430s and a singer in the papal chapel from 1431 to 1432, stood at the forefront of stylistic developments of the early fifteenth century, yet his music is hardly known among music historians and performers today. Although he was one of the first composers to link the Gloria and Credo by motto beginnings and to write a complete, musically unified Mass cycle, few of his Ordinary settings are available in modern transcription and little has been written about them. Without an edition of these settings it is not possible to evaluate the extent of Arnold's influence in the development of the cyclic Mass, the most important musical genre of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This dissertation establishes the basis for a re-evaluation of Arnold de Lantins and his role in the creation of the unified Mass cycle. The first chapter assembles the known facts concerning his biography and discusses the reasons for his neglect. Chapter 2 scrutinizes the sources containing his music to determine its place within the manuscript repertories and the time and place of its transmission. Chapter 3 examines each of Arnold's Ordinary settings and proposes a provisional chronology for their composition, while the final chapter discusses the variants among settings preserved in more than one source. Volume II presents each of Arnold's Ordinary settings in modern transcription. The combined evidence of recent archival studies, the sources, and the music itself demonstrates that Arnold's music was highly regarded by the scribes of the early fifteenth-century sources, that its transmission to these scribes was fairly direct, that Arnold's Ordinary settings were among the most advanced in the north Italian repertory, and that Arnold himself may have participated in the revision of parts of his complete Mass cycle. The nature of the variants in the settings preserved in more than one source suggest an early stage in a living tradition where composer, singers, and scribes freely reworked musical material for immediate consumption. Back to top Table of Contents Volume I Prefaceix List of Tablesxv List of Figuresxviii List of Musical Examplesxix List of Abbreviationsxx List of Manuscript Siglaxxi Introduction1 Chapter 1: The Musical Legacy of Arnold de Lantins5 Earlier Scholarship Concerning Arnold de Lantins5 The Discovery of Documents and Musical Sources6 Transcriptions and an Emerging Biography19 Arnold and the Origins of the Cyclic Mass25 New Archival Evidence29 Reasons for Arnold's Neglect31 The Life and Works of Arnold de Lantins: A Summary of Evidence33 A Brief Biography and a Worklist33 The Genres Arnold Cultivated39 Chapter 2: The Testimony of the Sources48 Organization and Contents of the Manuscripts51 Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS Q1551 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canonici 21354 Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 221656 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musik-sammlung, MS Mus. 322460 The Proximity of the Sources to Arnold62 Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS Q1563 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canonici 21369 Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 221676 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musik-sammlung, MS Mus. 322480 The Organization of Music for the Mass Ordinary81 Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS Q1581 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canonici 21385 Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 221689 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musik-sammlung, MS Mus. 322492 Chapter 3: Arnold's Settings of the Mass Ordinary95 Techniques of Unification97 The Gloria/Credo pairs97 The Arnold de Lantins/Johannes Ciconia Composite Cycle116 The Missa Verbum incarnatum129 Towards a Chronology of Arnold's Ordinary Settings148 Mensural Usage149 Tonal Organization162 Conclusions175 Chapter 4: The Transmission of Arnold's Ordinary Settings179 The Relationship between BL 90/91 and BU 37/38181 Missa Verbum incarnatum: A Tale of Three Scribes211 Implications for Editors of Early Fifteenth-Century Music251 Epilogue255 Appendix: The Evidence of the Attributions257 Notes267 Bibliography321 Volume II Introduction to the Editionvii Edition of Mass Ordinary Settings by Arnold de Lantins1 Page Contents PDF Download Links Abstract Table of Contents Volume I Volume II