Other names: Engardus

Egardus is probably to be identified with Johannes Ecghaerd from the diocese of Cambrai. He was born c1340 and held chaplaincies in Dixmuide and Bruges. He probably then went to northern Italy and may have associated with the antipapal court.

Works (3)

Literature

Egardus

LIFE

  1. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Egardus (Engardus)', The New Grove, VI (1980): 42.

EDITIONS

  1. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Das Manuskript Modena, Biblioteca estense, a M.5,24 (olim lat. 568 = Mod)', Musica Disciplina, XXIV (1970): 17-67.
  2. Italian Sacred Music, edited by Kurt von Fischer and F. A. Gallo, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1976. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XII.
  3. Italian Sacred and Ceremonial Music, edited by Kurt von Fischer and F. Alberto Gallo, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIII.

STUDIES OF WORKS

  1. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zitate in französischen Liedsätzen der Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musica Disciplina, XXVI (1972): 53-68 (p. 60/n46)( Furnos reliquisti quare; Equum est et salutare).
  2. SCHMID, B. 'Zur Rekonstruktion einer Gloria-Motette von Engardus in den Paduaner Fragmenten', Die Musikforschung, XXXVIII (1985): 195-201.
  3. NEWES, Virginia. 'Chace, caccia, fuga: the convergence of French and Italian traditions', Musica Disciplina, XLI (1987): 27-57, pp. 40-42( Furnos reliquisti quare; Equum est et salutare).

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Organal and chordal style in Renaissance sacred music: new and little-known sources', Aspects of Mediaeval and Renaissance Music: A Birthday Offering to Gustave Reese, New York: W. W. Norton, 1966, p. 173ff.
  2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.
  3. STROHM, R. 'Magister Egardus and other Italo-Flemish contacts', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.