OLD SOURCES IN NEW SAUCES: JOHN JOUBERT AND THE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT MATERIALS IN MODERN MUSIC.

Anyone who has had sustained contact with Anglican choirs probably knows music by John Joubert; anyone who hasn't probably doesn't. This article begins by considering the starkness of those divisions between different kinds of canons, framing this in terms of "local" canons that each serve a particular purpose. The local canons of this kind for teaching music theory and history tend to serve a demonstrative role and to prioritize clear-cut examples at the expense of music that handles a wider range of materials in a more complex way. This introductory discussion contextualizes and motivates an analytical vignette on a short piece by Joubert which has a firm standing in the relevant performance canon (Anglican choirs), but which is unknown beyond that. I argue that music theory pedagogy might benefit from adopting this example to get at important but analytically complex issues concerned with post-common-practice uses of pre-common-practice modal materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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