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The Mirror of Man's Salvation: Music in Devotional Life About 1500

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Howard Mayer Brown
Howard Mayer Brown*
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The University of Chicago
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Composers working during the last quarter of the fifteenth century wrote many more motets than previous composers had done. At any rate, far more have come down to us. This apparent explosion of activity coincided with the founding, reorganization, or revitalization of a number of cathedral or princely chapel choirs. Moreover, the character of the motet as a musical genre also seems to have changed at about the same time. By far the largest number of motets composed before 1475 set texts celebrating the Virgin Mary, or else they were compositions written to celebrate particular political or social occasions.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 744 - 773
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1990

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This essay is a version of the Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture delivered at the National Conference of the Renaissance Society of America in Toronto in the spring of 1990.1 am grateful to my colleague Anne Walters Robertson for much valuable advice in the course of writing it.

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