Guillaume Le Rouge (musician)

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Guillaume Le Rouge (* around 1385; active 1450 to 1465) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Burgundian school in the early Renaissance .

Live and act

Determining the identity of Guillaume Le Rouge is made difficult by the existence of several musicians with similar names during this period. He was more likely to be the singer in the chapel of Duke Charles d'Orléans (1394–1465) between 1451 and 1465, who supported musicians, minstrels and poets by creating melodies for their poems and rondeaux . The composer Eloy d'Amerval also praised him alongside other composers in his work “Le Livre de la deablerie” (published in Paris 1508). John Tinctoris has Lerouge called in Scripture "Proportional musices" (in the third book, Chapter 2, published 1474) as "Angelorum errore labefactus", because of its mensuralem procedures in the exhibition "Mon cuer pleure" which today is no longer known. This treatise lists several composers who were active in the Loire Valley in the 1460s .

In the traditional mass “So ys emprentid” (“Soyez aprantiz”) by Guillaume Le Rouge there are similarities with masses by Barbignant , Guillaume Faugues and Johannes Pullois , which suggest that these composers had a certain connection with one another. The music historian Christopher Reynolds suspected (1995) that Le Rouge was staying in Rome because a certain Rubino was active as a singer at St. Peter's Basilica there in 1447 and 1448 . Other musicians with similar names (e.g. Guillaume Rose or Rubinus ) leave this identity for reasons of time.

meaning

Two compositions by Guillaume Le Rouge have come down to us, a mass and a Bergerette , both of which have their own special features. The mass is an early chanson fair, taking on several elements of the underlying chanson “So ys emprentid”. The Bergerette, held in a style that was customary for the middle of the 15th century, stands out for its pitch range being the same in all voices (from c or d to f1), including the tonal mode A, which was rare at that time has been used. For palaeographic (medieval-graphic) reasons, scientists have suggested that this mountain range could originally have been a rondeau, which was later reworked into a mountain range by inserting the corresponding homophonic , contrasting second section.

Works

  • Missa “So ys emprentid” (= “Soyez amprantiz”) with three voices; underlying ballad probably by Walter Frye
  • Bergerette “Se je fayz dueil” with three voices, at the beginning only texted in the top part

Literature (selection)

  • J. Marix: Histoire de la musique et des musiciens de la cour de Bourgogne sous le règne de Philippe le Bon (1420–1467) , Strasbourg 1939
  • E. Reeser: A "iso-melische" mis uit den tijd van Dufay , in: Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor nederlandse muziekgeschiedenis No. 16, 1942, pages 151–176
  • RJ Snow: The Mass-Motet Cycle: a Mid-Fifteenth Century Experiment , in: Festschrift for Dr. Plamenac, edited by the same, Pittsburgh 1969, pp. 301-320
  • Craigh Wright: Music at the Court of Burgundy 1364-1419: a Documentary Study , Henryville 1979 (= Musicological Studies No. 28)
  • Paula Higgins: Busnois and Musical Culture in the Late Fifteenth-Century France and Burgundy , PhD thesis at Princeton University 1987
  • Christopher Reynolds: Papal Patronage and the Music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 , Berkeley 1995
  • David Fallows: A Catalog of Polyphonic Songs, 1415-1480 , Oxford 1999

Web links

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  1. ↑ Music in the past and present (MGG). Personal section, volume 10. Bärenreiter, Kassel and Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Le Rouge, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES de Rouge, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the early Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1385
DATE OF DEATH after 1465