UW-Madison Faculty
Lawrence Earp (profile)
Professor of Musicology
NEW LOCATION: Humanities 1641
'I am moved to speak of forms changed into new bodies...'
A recent article on a late Webern cantata movement explores aesthetic issues of serial music theorized in the early 1950s by Boulez, and, in a literary analogy, by Barthes. These same years saw Boulez's sympathetic reception of another music dependent on pre-compositional structuring, the isorhythmic motet of the early 1300s. In fact, this was the first era in which these works found a receptive ear in modern times. My paper muses over the ramifications of a kind of reception history in reverse, as I try to discover what "expression" means in this dead medieval repertory.
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