#4198. ‘Blinded by the Desire of Riches’: Corruption, Anger and Resolution in the Two-Part Notre Dame Conductus Repertory

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Abstract:
This research examines anger and one of the ways it was expressed by the secular clergy at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Applying the idea of an ‘emotional community’ to the secular clergy, I consider what we know about the authors and composers of the mostly anonymous conductus repertory and how these men might have acceptably expressed their anger at wrongdoing in the Church. I examine briefly the texts of the nineteen two-part conductus without melismas in the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1 (F), before focusing on five of these conductus, the texts of which convey anger. An analysis of the frequency and use of intervals in these works places their composition at the time when the celebrated theologian Peter the Chanter and his students were at Notre Dame. I also discuss the use of descending melodic motives, one of which occurs most frequently in the conductus with texts that express anger.
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Secular music; secular clergy; repertory; melodic motives; composition

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