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Johannes Cesaris

Other names: Cesaris (PMFC), Cesaris, Johannes (Grove, MGG)

Martin le Franc wrote that Cesaris, Carmen and Tapissier amazed Paris with their music; it is generally assumed this Cesaris is the same as the man given an organ for use in Angers Cathedral by Yolande of Aragon.

Works (8)

  1. A l'aventure va Gauvain rondeau
  2. A virtutis ignitio; Ergo beata nascio; [Benedicta filia tua] motet
  3. Bonté bialté untexted work
  4. Je ris je chante je m'esbas rondeau
  5. Li dieus d'amours, sires de vrais amans ballade
  6. Mon seul voloir; Certes m'amour rondeau
  7. Pour la dolour l'annoy le grief martire; Qui dolente n'aura veu rondeau
  8. Se par plour ou par dueil mener rondeau

Literature

Johannes Cesaris

LIFE

  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Cesaris, Johannes', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, II (1952): 983-989 .

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. WOLF, Johannes. Handbuch der Notationskunde, 2 vols, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1913, 1919. [reprinted Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1963].
  3. Sing- und Spielmusik aus älterer Zeit. Beispielband zur allgemeinen Musikgeschichte, edited by Johannes Wolf, 2nd edition, Leipzig: Quelle und Meyer, 1931.
  4. Polyphonia Sacra: A Continental Miscellany of the Fifteenth Century, edited by Charles van den Borren, Nashdom Abbey, Burnham, Buckinghamshire and London: Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, 1932 .
  5. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1971. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/II.
  6. French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564, Second Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIX .

STUDIES OF WORKS

  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. Bourdon und Fauxbourdon. Studien zum Ursprung der niederländischen Musik, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1950 .
  2. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174( A l'aventure va Gauvain).

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. Bourdon und Fauxbourdon. Studien zum Ursprung der niederländischen Musik, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1950 .
  2. Early Fifteenth Century Music, edited by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1955. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 11/I.
  3. WARD, Tom R. 'Cesaris, Johannes', The New Grove, IV (1980): 87-88 .
  4. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.

Recordings

Recordings of works by Johannes Cesaris

  1. Fifteenth Century Motets: Collegium Stereo JE 108: A virtutis ignitio; Ergo beata nascio; [Benedicta filia tua]; .
  2. Dufay and His Times: Telefunken ER 6.35 257(2) (GER) (1974): Bonté bialté; .
  3. Lancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420: Hyperion CDA66588 (1992): Mon seul voloir; Certes m'amour; .