Jean Tapissier

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Jean Tapissier (actually Jean de Noyers ; * around 1370 in Noyers , northern Burgundy , † around 1409 probably in Paris ) was a French poet and composer of the Burgundian school in the late Middle Ages.

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The nickname "Tapissier" probably indicates the activity of the poet-musician with the "weaving" of songs. There is no information about his youth and training time. At the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century he was in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy in Dijon and was employed as a valet and court composer. The earliest evidence from the archives of Burgundy speaks of him as a member of Duke Philip the Bold's retinue on his trip to Milan in February 1391. In the same year, also in 1395, he made a similar trip to Avignon with his employer . In this way, some of Tapissier's compositions came into a handwriting that otherwise only survives pieces from Avignon. In the summer of 1399 he accompanied Duke Philip to Flanders . After Philip the Bold died in 1404, Tapissier was taken over by his son and successor, Duke Johann Ohnefurcht , in his service. The Burgundian documents also show that the composer took care of the singing school in Paris in 1406; he gave singing lessons and had the court choirboys in his care. With these he traveled to Amiens and Arras in 1408 , where they were commissioned to sing in front of the new Burgundian duke. Later that year he received a reward for his help in conducting the services when the Burgundian court was in Paris. In December 1408 Tapissier was replaced by another teacher, perhaps because he was seriously ill or died; in the archival records of Burgundy, however, there is no definitive talk of his death until August 1410.

meaning

Jean Tapissier was evidently highly regarded during his lifetime; In the “Règles de la seconde rhetorique” published around 1400, the anonymous author describes him as one of the leading poet-musicians. Several decades later, around 1440, his name was well known to be mentioned in the poem "Le champion des dames" by Martin Le Franc . His isorhythmic motet "Eya dulcis adque vernans rosa" mourns the division of the Church in the Great Schism and contains an allusion to Philip the Bold, who had repeatedly tried to overcome this division. In the two traditional fair sentences there are a number of references to pieces by Baude Cordier , a colleague of Tapissier at the Burgundian court, as well as to fair sentences from Thomas Fabri , a student of Tapissier. As a composer of the Burgundian school, Jean Tapissier is one of the forerunners of Franco-Flemish music .

Works

  • Credo to three votes
  • Sanctus to three votes
  • Motet “Eya dulcis adque vernans rosa” / “Vale placens peroratrix” with four voices

Literature (selection)

  • E. Dannemann: The late Gothic music tradition in France and Burgundy before Dufay's appearance , Strasbourg 1936
  • Craig Wright: Tapissier and Cordier: New Documents and Conjectures. In: Musical Quarterly No. 59, 1973, pp. 97-129
  • Craig Wright: Music at the Court of Burgundy, 1364-1419: a Document History , Henryville 1974
  • J. Michael Allsen: Style and Intertextuality in the Isorhythmic Motet 1400–1440 , dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison / Wisconsin 1992
  • RE Palmer: Squaring the Triangle: Interrelations and Their Meanings in some Early Fifteenth-Century Mass Pairs. In: Journal of Music Theory No. 16, 1998, pages 494-518
  • LL Perkins: Music in the Age of the Renaissance , New York 1999

Web links

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  1. ↑ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 16, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5
  2. ↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 8: Štich - Zylis-Gara. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-451-18058-8 .
  3. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 25, McMillan Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
personal data
SURNAME Tapissier, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noyers, Jean de (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and composer of the Burgundian school in the late Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH around 1370
PLACE OF BIRTH Noyers , northern Burgundy
DATE OF DEATH around 1409
Place of death uncertain: Paris