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Philippe de Vitry Champagne, France France
Birth
Oct 31, 1291 in Vitry,
Death
Jun 9, 1361 in Paris,
Philippe de Vitry, poet and musician, philosopher and intellectual, councilor to three kings, began his stellar career with a master of arts degree from the Sorbonne. Pope John XXII conferred upon him the first of many ecclesiastical revenues in 1321. By this point, Vitry may have already been serving as a notary to the Royal Court; his documented service to French royalty spanned three reigns, Charles le Bel, Philippe VI, and Jean II. In 1346, Vitry accompanied Jean to war as a "companion in arms," and he served as an ambassador to the Papal court in Avignon starting in 1350. In that year, he was named Bishop of Meaux, a post he retained until his death in 1361. During his life, Vitry was commended by no less a writer than Francesco Petrarch as "the one true poet of France," and by numerous professional musicians as the "flower and jewel of singers"; he was said to have discovered the very means of composing music in his time. Philippe de Vitry has long been erroneously thought to have codified his new theories of music composition some time around 1320 in a revolutionary treatise called the Ars Nova, or "New Art" (setting its teaching in contrast to the compositional styles in the previous century). Musicologists now doubt that such a single work existed. Nevertheless, vestiges of his teachings on music have survived in a number of smaller treatises and tracts by his pupils. His expansions of musical practice largely deal with rhythmic features: the codification of different mensurations (or musical time signatures), specifically duple time; the use of red notation to indicate new proportional rhythmic values; and the standardization of a new shorter note value, the minim. In each of these cases, it seems he influenced his peers ... 13?? Almifonis/Rosa/Tenor (possibly spurious), motet Aman novi/Heu Fortuna/Heu me, tristis est anima 13?? mea, motet Amer/Durement/Dolor meus (possibly spurious), 13?? motet Apta caro/Flos/Alma redemptorisa mater 13?? (possibly spurious), motet 13?? Ay, Amours! Tant me dure (sp urious), chanson Colla uigo/Bona condit/Libera me Domine (prob13?? ably authentic), motet 13?? Cum statua/Hugo/Magister invidie, motet Douce pla ysance/Garison/Neuma quinti toni, 13?? motet Firmissime/Adesto/Alleuya, Benedictus (probably 13?? authe ntic), motet 13?? Floret/Florens/Neuma, motet Flos ortus/Celsa cedrus/Tenor (probably 13?? authentic), motet
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13?? Garrit gallus/In nova fert/Neuma, motet Imprudentor 13?? circum ivi/Virtutibus/Contratenor/Tenor, motet In virtute/Decens carmen/Clamor 13?? meus/Contratenor (possibly spurious), motet Je qui paoir seule ai de conforter (spurious), 13?? de scort Mazarea que decora/Zolomina/Tenor (authenticy 13?? doubtful), motet Mon chant/Qui doloreus/Tenor (authenticy doubt13?? ful), motet 13?? Motets 13?? O Philippe/O bone (possibly spurious), motet O canenda/Rex quem/Contratenor/Rex regum, 133? motet Orbis orbatus/Vos pastores/Fur non venit (pos13?? sibly authentic), motet 13?? Per grama protho paret (possibly spurious), motet 13?? Petre cl emens/Lugentium/Tenor, motet 13?? Providence la senée (spurious), virelai Quid scire proderit/Dantur officia (possibly au13?? thentic), motet Sa paour/Diex/Concupisco (possibly spurious), 13?? motet 13?? Scariotis/Jure (possibly spurious), motet 13?? Se cuers/Rex (possibly spurious), motet 13?? Se j'onques a mon vivant (sp urious), chanson Servant regem/O Philippe/Rex regum (possibly 13?? spurious), motet 13?? Talant j'ai que d'obeir (spur ious), lai 13?? Tribum/Quoniam secta/Merito hec patimur, motet 13?? Tuba sacre fidei/In arboris/Virgo sum, motet Vos quid 13?? admiram ini/Gratissima/Contratenor/Gaude gloriosa, motet 13?? Work(s) Work(s) Overview
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