The Dorset Rotulus: Contextualizing and Reconstructing the Early English Motet

The exciting discovery of new music from the Middle Ages sheds new light on knowledge of the medieval motet.

From its origins in the thirteenth century, the Latin-texted motet in England and France became the most significant and diverse polyphonic genre of the fourteenth, a body of music important both for its texts and its variety of musical structures. However, although the motet in England plays a vital role in the music-historical narrative of the first decades of the 1300s, it has too ...