MMDB

Johannes Carmen

Other names: Jean Carmen

In 1403, Carmen was paid 2 francs `for having notated in the book of notes in the [Burgundian] chapel ...hymns, Glorias and Patrems newly made'. He was one of the principal composers working in Paris in the early 15thC.

Works (3)

  1. Pontifici decori speculi motet
  2. Salve pater creator ominium; Felix et beata motet
  3. Venite adoremus dominum; Salve sancta eterna trinitas; [Venite] motet

Literature

Johannes Carmen

EDITIONS

  1. STAINER, John & C. STAINER. Dufay and His Contemporaries. Fifty Compositions Transcribed from MS. Canonici misc. 213 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, London and New York: Novello, 1898 .
  2. Early Fifteenth Century Music, edited by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1955. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 11/I.

STUDIES OF WORKS

  1. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59( Pontifici decori speculi).

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Carmen, Johannes', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, II (1952): 850-853 .
  2. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.