Petrus de Cruce
Petrus de Cruce , also Pierre de la Croix (* mid- 13th century in Amiens ; † unknown) was a French composer and music theorist .
Petrus de Cruce lived in Paris . In 1298 the French King Philip IV commissioned him to compose an office for Louis the Holy . He was probably the teacher of Jakobus Leodiensis , who praised him alongside Franco von Köln and Lambertus as a representative of the ars veterum and named the three-part motets Au renouveler and Aucun ont trouvé chant as works by Petrus de Cruce , which are reinforced by melismatics in the duplum , the emphasis on thirds and sixths at the beginning of a perfectio and the predominant role of a triplum consisting of small note values and rhythmically freely laid out are marked. The frequent use of small notes resulted in a considerable increase in the duration of the brevis in the so-called Petrus de Cruce style , i.e. a slowdown in the tempo.
As a music theorist, Petrus de Cruce stands between Franco von Köln and Philippe de Vitry with his theories on mensural notation . He introduced the rule that a brevis can be divided into 2 to 9 semibreven and used the punctus divisionis to make the grouping clear. This innovation marks a milestone on the way from the modal to the mensural rhythm of the Italian Trecento .
expenditure
- Yvonne Rokseth (Ed.): Polyphonies du XIIIe s. , 4 volumes, Paris 1935–1939 ( Codex Montpellier )
- A. Auda (Ed.): Les "Motets wallons" du ms. de Turin ... , Brussels 1953
literature
- Willi Apel : The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900–1600 , Cambridge 1942, Leipzig 1962
- SB Patrick: The Definition, Dissemination and Description of Petronian Notation , University of North Carolina , 1971
- Medieval France: an encyclopedia By William W. Kibler, page 737 google books
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon Vol. 3 (1998) ISBN 3-254-08398-9
- ↑ a b Horst Seeger : Musiklexikon Personen A – Z / Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig (1981)
- ^ Heinrich Besseler : The motet composition from Petrus de Cruce to Philipp von Vitry
Web links
- Literature by and about Petrus de Cruce in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Petrus de Cruce in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petrus de Cruce |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pierre de la Croix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amiens |
| DATE OF DEATH | 13th century or 14th century |