Jaques le Vinier (
fl. 1240–60)
[L. A. Vigneras (1934), "Note sur Andrieu Contredit," ''Romanic Review'', 25, 380, states that the register of the Puy records his death in 1245.] was a
trouvère
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probably from the region around
Arras
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and associated with the trouvères of that city. He was a member of the
Puy d'Arras The Puy d'Arras, called in its own day the Puy Notre-Dame, was a medieval poetical society formed in Arras for holding contests between trouvères and ''pour maintenir amour et joie'' (for maintaining love and joy, i.e. the courtly love lyric). ...
and wrote a ''
jeu parti
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'' with
Andrieu Contredit. His ''
floruit
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'' dates are reconstructed on the basis of his reference to
Jehan Bretel in his ''
chanson d'amour
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Original version
In 1958 the husband and wife te ...
'' ''De loial amour''. Besides ''chansons d'amour'', Jaques also wrote ''chansons'' dedicated to the
Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
. The main source preserving his work is the
Vatican Chansonnier. Jaques wrote original melodies for his Marian songs, while most such works by other trouvères were
contrafacta
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of pre-existing music. The
plagal melodies, all in
bar form
Bar form (German: ''die Barform'' or ''der Bar'') is a musical form of the pattern AAB.
Original use
The term comes from the rigorous terminology of the Meistersinger guilds of the 15th to 18th century who used it to refer to their songs and the ...
, are simple, but include both
isometric or heterometric tunes. Jaques's complete œuvre comprises:
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It is doubtful whether this last one is Jaques's. Unlike his other Marian ''chansons'', it is a contrafactum of ''Lo clar tems vei brunezir'' by
Raimon Jordan
Raimon Jordan (fl. c. 1178–1195)Boase, 823. was a Toulousain troubadour and the viscount of Saint-Antonin in the Rouergue near the boundary with Quercy. His poetry was in Old Occitan.
There is a '' vida'' of Jordan which exists in sever ...
.
References
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Karp, Theodore"Le Vinier, Jaques."''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Accessed 20 September 2008.
Notes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaques Le Vinier
Trouvères
1245 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Male classical composers