Jo annesSusay or Jehan Suzay (sometimes written Suzoy or Susoy) (''fl.'' c. 1380; d. after 1411) was a French

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of the Middle Ages. He is the composer of three ballades in the style, all found in the Chantilly Codex: ''A l'albre sec'', ''Prophilias, un des nobles'', and '' Pictagoras,

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et Orpheus''. The last ballade is also found in the Boverio Codex, Turin T.III.2, with the more accurate incipit "Pytagoras, Jobal, et Orpheus" . A a three-voice Gloria "in fauxbourdon-like style" found in the Apt codex (ff. 25v/26r) is also attributed to Susay. Susay's secular works have been edited in Willi Apel, ''French Secular Music of the Fourteenth Century'' and Gordon Greene, ''Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century,'' volumes 18 and 19, and his Gloria by Stäblein-Harder and Cattin/Facchin. According to the anonymous, early-fifteenth century treatise, '' Règles de la seconde rhétorique'', the poet Jehan de Suzay (named along with Tapissier and others) was still alive at the time of writing. E. Langlois, ed.: ''Recueil d’arts de seconde rhétorique'' (Paris, 1902), pp. xxvi, 14. He is generally supposed to be this composer.

External links

Jehan Suzay at HOASM

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzay, Jehan 14th-century French composers French classical composers French male classical composers 14th-century births Year of death unknown