Written by Jaquemart Gielée around 1289, the Renart le Nouvel romance, peppered with musical insertions, is one of the last continuations of the « goupil »’s adventures. This text also belongs to the « inserted texts » important corpus, which appears to have been a real fad during the whole thirteenth century in northern France, beginning with Jean Renart, who wrote the Guillaume de Dole romance around 1228. Three of its four surviving manuscripts contain the extant music of the refrains inserted in the narration, the last only containing one quotation among empty staves. The three musical copies diverge, sometimes deeply, in the choices of these short poetico-musical elements. But all three of them are characterized by a compositional process using numerous melodic recurrences. ... Studying the refrains inserted in the Renart le Nouvel romance asks several questions. How to consider the recurrences? In what case(s) is it possible to talk about « genuine » formulas? How do the melodic reiterations allow us to question the relationship between text and music? In what extent do the recurrent elements appeal to the perception and memory of the readers-listeners? Lastly, how does this way of writing, generating a material which appears to be specific to a manuscript, lie within the poetico-musical history of the refrains - as of the inserted texts themselves? - [Abstract]

Language: French

Locators: ISBN: 978-2-503-55432-7