Jacques de Gouy (c. 1610 – after 1650) was a French

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ancestry. He was acquainted with composers in Parisian music circles of the early 17th century such as

Étienne Moulinié Étienne Moulinié (10 October 1599 – 1676) was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine (died 1655), Moulinié gained an app ...

and

Michel Lambert Michel Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singing master, theorbist and composer. Career Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans, a brother of k ...

Works

In his writings, de Gouy mentions having composed

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s and '' airs,'' yet all of his published work is lost, save his ''Airs à quatre parties sur la Paraphrase des pseaumes de Godeau'' (1650), a setting of

Antoine Godeau Antoine Godeau (24 September 1605, in Dreux – 21 April 1672, in Vence) was a French bishop, poet and exegete. He is now known for his work of criticism ''Discours de la poésie chrétienne'' from 1633. Biography His verse-writing early won the ...

's ''Paraphrases'', including a long and informative preface. De Gouy only published the first 50 of the 150 psalms, because the work was received as too academic.Denise Launay, ''Gouy, Jacques de''
/ref> De Gouy promoted

Jean Le Maire Jean Lemaire de Belges (c. 1473c. 1525) was a Walloon poet and historian, and pamphleteer who, writing in French, was the last and one of the best of the school of poetic 'rhétoriqueurs' (“rhetoricians”) and the chief forerunner, both in style ...

's new system of notation, called "la musique almérique", by handing out engraved music scores to concert guests attending the

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of ''Estrennes pour Messieurs et Dames du Concert de la Musique Almérique, presentée par M. Goüy premier professeur en icelle: en l'année 1642'', a

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in four parts specifically written for that occasion.Albert Cohen, ''Jean Le Maire and La Musique Almerique''
JSTOR: Acta Musicologica: Vol. 35, Fasc. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1963), p 175 He also published a learning method for

plainchant Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French ''plain-chant''; la, cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church. When referring to the term plainsong, it is those sacred pieces that are composed in Latin text. ...

according to Le Maire's system, ''Table en faveur des ecclésiastiques, pour apprendre facilement le plain-chant selon l’art de l’incomparable M. Le Maire'', which is also lost.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gouy, Jacques De 1610s births French Baroque composers French composers of sacred music French male classical composers Year of death unknown 17th-century male musicians