Contingency and Connotation in the Thirteenth-Century Refrain
by Terry, James R., Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2010, 223 pages; 3443196

Abstract:

Refrains in thirteenth-century French music and literature have been notoriously difficult to characterize and define. This dissertation aims to develop a definition of the refrain that draws these texts together as a unified corpus while accounting for their heterogeneity, proposing that all refrains contain an inherent "refrain/author contingency" that establishes them as such. Refrain/author contingency means that a line becomes a refrain because it functions within a work on a deeper level than its semantic meaning, and reveals authorial intentionality in the choice and placement of a refrain within a work. Consequently, the discussion extends beyond functionality to include the compositional strategies of medieval composers and the aural perception of refrains.

 
AdviserDenyse Delcourt
SchoolUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
SourceDAI/A 72-04, p. , Mar 2011
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsMedieval literature; Romance literature; Music
Publication Number3443196
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