Jehannot de Lescurel
Jehannot de Lescurel or Jehannot de l'Escurel (* unknown; † 23 May 1304 ) was a trouvère and pioneer of the Ars Nova in Paris .
Life
Little is known about the life of Jehannot or Jehan de Lescurel. His name appears in a single manuscript in the Roman de Fauvel compiled by Gervais du Bus . Lescurel is considered to be the son of a landowner and citizen of Paris named Pierre a L'Escurel. Aalis à L'Escurel, a bookseller, is adopted as the mother. The names of the parents appear in various tax rolls from 1296 to 1300. To what extent the name L'Escurel was widespread remains in the dark. According to the convention, Jehannot de Lescurel is in Paris and the Ile de France at the turn of the XIII. verifiable as a cleric , poet and musician in the 14th century . According to Charles-Victor Langlois (1927), he was judged in 1304 with three accomplices at the common gallows of the thieves for rape, murder and theft. A confirmation of this fact can also be found in the biography of Mary and Richard Rouse, but with the restriction that "Jehan de Lescurel" was a fairly common name and a connection between the Trouvère and the delinquent cannot be proven. According to two Paris chronicles, the execution of some clerics for raping nuns is reported in 1303. In this context, the name of Jehan de L'Escurel involved is mentioned. A document from the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral reports that the property of this Jehan passed to this church. There are no more or more certain facts.
plant
The musical work Lescurel is seen as a transition from the monophonic music of the Trouvères to polyphonic Ars Nova . The work itself is original, of high quality and consistency of composition. The work has been preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale (fonds français 146) in the appendix to the handwritten code of the Roman de Fauvel in the only larger context and consists of rondo , ballads and virelais . The only surviving polyphonic rondo for three voices, A vous douce debonnaire, testifies to the transition of the art of the Trouvères to Guillaume de Machaut . Taken together, the traditional work counts 21 ballads, 11 rondeaus and 2 dits.
Work editions
- Anatole de Montaiglon: Chansons, ballades er rondeaux de Jehannot de Lescurel, poète du XVIe Siècle / publ. pour la première fois, d'après un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Imperiale par Anatole de Montaignon . Bibliothèque elzévirienne; 37, Paris, 1855, XI, 30 p., Reprint: Klaus, Nedeln 1972
- Friedrich Gennrich (ed.): Balades, rondeaux et diz entez sus refroiz de rondeaux / Jehannot de L'Escurel , Summa musicae medii aevi. Monumenta, Langen bei Frankfurt 1964, XIV, 82 p., Sheet music examples
- Nigel E. Wilkins: The Works of Jehan de Lescurel / ed. From the ms. Paris NN, f. fr. 146 by Nigel Wilkins . Corpus mensurabilis musicae 30, American Inst. Of Musicology, Rome 1966, VII, 40 pp.
- ' ' Songé .i. songe " : Jehan de Lescurel. Chansons et Dit enté" Gracieus Temps ", mediabook with a disc by the ensemble Syntagma and essay by E. Danilevski, ed. Facsimile-Records, 2015, EAN: 3 003651 420002
Web links
- Literature by and about Jehannot de Lescurel in the catalog of the German National Library
- The songs of Jehannot de Lescurel on sealed.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Rouse, Mary & Richard: "Jehannot de Lescurel", in: Fauvel Studies: Allegory, Chronicle, Music, and Image in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS français 146, ed. by Margaret Bent & Andrew Wathey, Clarendon Press, Oxford & New York 1998, pp. 525-27. ISBN 978-0-19-816579-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jehannot de Lescurel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Lescurel, Jehan; de L'Escurel, Jehannot; de L'Escurel, Jehan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cleric, musician and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1304 |
| Place of death | Paris |