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Ivrea Codex
The ''Ivrea Codex'' (''Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, 115'') is a parchment manuscript containing a significant body of 14th century French polyphonic music. The codex contains motets, Mass movements, and a handful of virelais, chaces, and ballades, composed in the middle of the 14th century. The notation is characteristic of the Ars Nova period. The manuscript is missing at least one gathering of Mass movements. The provenance of the codex is disputed. It was long thought to have been compiled in Avignon, the seat of the French Papacy, around 1370. However, the musically important court of Gaston Fébus has also been suggested. Most recently, however, Karl Kügle has asserted that the source was made in Ivrea itself, by musicians connected to the Savoyard court (possibly Jehan Pellicier), in the 1380s or 1390s. None of these three interpretations has become universally accepted. All of the music in the codex is anonymous, but attributions have been made on the basis of conco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parchment
Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia. Vellum is a finer quality parchment made from the skins of young animals such as lambs and young calves. It may be called animal membrane by libraries and museums that wish to avoid distinguishing between ''parchment'' and the more-restricted term ''vellum'' (see below). Parchment and vellum Today the term ''parchment'' is often used in non-technical contexts to refer to any animal skin, particularly goat, sheep or cow, that has been scraped or dried under tension. The term originally referred only to the skin of sheep and, occasionally, goats. The equivalent material made from calfskin, which was of finer quality, was known as ''vellum'' (from the Old French or , and ultimately from the Latin , meaning a calf); while the finest of all was ''uterine vellum'', taken from a calf foetus or still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jehan Pellicier
Jehan is a male given name. It is the old orthography of Jean in Old French, and is rarely given anymore. It is also a variant of the Persian name Jahan in some South Asian languages. People with the given name Jehan * Jehan Adam (15th century), French mathematician * Jehan Titelouze (c. 1562/63–1633), French organist and composer * Jehan Alain (1911–1940), French organist and composer * Jehan Sadat (1933–2021), first lady of Egypt * Jahanara Begum (17th century), Indian royalty * Jehan Ara Saeed (1926–2007), radio newsreader * Jehan Cousin the younger (circa 1522-1595), French artist * Jehan Cauvin (1509–1564), French theologian * Jehan de Lescurel (died 1304), medieval poet and composer * Jehan de Waurin (died circa 1474), French chronicler * Jehan Fresneau (15th century), French composer * Jehan Frollo, a character in Victor Hugo's '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' * Jehan Georges Vibert (1840–1902), French academic painter * Jehan Mubarak (born 1981), America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ars Subtilior
''Ars subtilior'' (Latin for 'subtler art') is a musical style characterized by rhythmic and notational complexity, centered on Paris, Avignon in southern France, and also in northern Spain at the end of the fourteenth century.Hoppin 1978, 472–73. The style also is found in the French Cypriot repertory. Often the term is used in contrast with ars nova, which applies to the musical style of the preceding period from about 1310 to about 1370; though some scholars prefer to consider ''ars subtilior'' a subcategory of the earlier style. Primary sources for ''ars subtilior'' are the Chantilly Codex, the Modena Codex (Mod A M 5.24), and the Turin Manuscript (Torino J.II.9). Overview and history Musically, the productions of the ''ars subtilior'' are highly refined, complex, and difficult to sing, and probably were produced, sung, and enjoyed by a small audience of specialists and connoisseurs. Musicologist Richard Hoppin suggests the superlative ''ars subtilissima'', saying, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Of Cyprus
The music of Cyprus includes a variety of traditional, Western classical and Western popular genres. Cypriot traditional music is similar to the Greek folk music, traditional music of Greek music, Greece with Turkey, Turkish and Arab influences, and includes dances like sousta, syrtos, ballos, tatsia, antikristos, arabiye, karotseris, sinalik, chiftetteli, zeimbekiko and the mandra dance. History Medieval music Cyprus changed hands numerous times prior to the medieval era, and was an important outpost of Christianity and Western culture, Western European civilization during the Crusades. The island's peak as a cultural capital of Europe occurred from 1359 to 1432. During that peak, Pierre I de Lusignan made a three-year tour on Europe, bringing with him an entourage of musicians that impressed Charles V of France, Charles V in Rheims so much that he donated 80 francs in gold to them. On his return to Cyprus, Pierre I brought with him the French Ars Nova and, later, the Ars Sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loys
''Giselle'' (; ), originally titled ''Giselle, ou les Wilis'' (, ''Giselle, or The Wilis''), is a romantic ballet (" ballet-pantomime") in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it was first performed by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris on 28 June 1841, with Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle. It was an unqualified triumph. It became hugely popular and was staged at once across Europe, Russia, and the United States. The ghost-filled ballet tells the tragic, romantic story of a beautiful young peasant girl named Giselle and a disguised nobleman named Albrecht, who fall in love, but when his true identity is revealed by his rival, Hilarion, Giselle goes mad and dies of heartbreak. After her death, she is summoned from her grave into the vengeful, deadly sisterhood of the Wilis, the ghosts of unmarried women who died after being betrayed by their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sortes (composer)
Sortes is a civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ... in the municipality of Bragança, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 296, in an area of 21.30 km². References Parishes of Bragança, Portugal {{Bragança-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matheus De Sancto Johanne
Matheus de Sancto Johanne (died after 10 June 1391), also known as Mayshuet, was a French composer of the late Medieval era. Active both in France and England, he was one of the representatives of the complex, manneristic musical style known as the ''ars subtilior'' which flourished around the court of the Avignon Papacy during the Great Schism..Ursula Günther, "Matheus de Sancto Johanne". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/18061 (accessed 17 December 2011). Life and career Matheus was probably born in the diocese of Noyon, northeast of Paris. Nothing of his early life is known, nor is his age when he begins to appear in historical records. He worked in England from about 1366 as a clerk for the son-in-law of Edward III, and later for Philippa of Hainault, queen consort of Edward. In 1368 he came back to France. The next ten years are a blank, but at some time during this period he had begun working for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magister Heinricus
Magister is Latin for "master" or "teacher". It may refer to: Positions and titles * Magister degree, an academic degree * Magister equitum, or Master of the Horse * Magister militum, a master of the soldiers * Magister officiorum (''master of offices''), a civilian post of the Roman Empire * Magister palatii (Master of the Sacred Palace), a Roman Catholic curial position * Magister, praefectus curiae, a house-master in medieval Europe Aircraft * Fouga Magister, a French training aircraft * Miles Magister, a British training aircraft Biology * ''Neotoma magister'', a species of pack rat * '' Berryteuthis magister'', a species of squid * ''Metacarcinus magister'', the Dungeness crab * ''Sceloporus magister'', a species of spiny lizard People * Dositheus Magister, 4th-century Roman scholar * Thomas Magister, 14th-century Byzantine monk and scholar * Magister Wigbold, 14th-century German pirate Other * Magister, a font designed by Aldo Novarese (1966) * ''The Magister'', a sour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
