Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice, by Jane D. Hatter

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Book Review| August 01 2021 Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice, by Jane D. Hatter Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice, by Jane D. Hatter. Music in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvii, 281 pp. Sarah Ann Long Sarah Ann Long SARAH ANN LONG is Associate Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on late medieval and early modern liturgical practices in northern France and the Low Countries, with an emphasis on confraternity devotions and music making in urban environments. She is the author of Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300–1550 (University of Rochester Press, 2021) and coauthor of Antiphonaria: Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (c.1100–c.1800) (Brepols, 2015). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (2): 440–445. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.2.440 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah Ann Long; Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice, by Jane D. Hatter. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2021; 74 (2): 440–445. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.2.440 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Self-reference occurs in a number of pieces written by well-known composers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We normally associate this with textual references in works that mention musicians by name, such as laments, or musical prayers. Jane Hatter’s Composing Community in Late Medieval Music explores many of these pieces, as well as a number of others that highlight the act of composing itself. Through analyzing self-referential works in conjunction with their social functions, Hatter uncovers how pieces alluding to composers and their trade were used to construct a sense of community and to promote the idea of the professional composer among several generations of musicians working around 1500. She neatly... © 2021 by the American Musicological Society. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2021American Musicological Society You do not currently have access to this content.