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Johannes Cuvelier

Other names: Cuvelier, Jo(hannes) (Grove), Cunelier (PMFC), Jacquemart le Cuvelier (R>egles)

In 1372 this French poet and composer was a `diseur' of the King of France. According to the @Règles* he came from Tournai and was the `faiseur' of Charles V. He wrote a chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, completed in 1387.

Works (3)

  1. Lorques Arthus, Alixandre et Paris ballade
  2. Se Galaas et le puissant Artus ballade
  3. Se Genevre, Tristan, Yssout, Helainne ballade

Literature

Johannes Cuvelier

LIFE

GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Cuvelier, Jo(hannes)', The New Grove, V (1980): 107-108 .

EDITIONS

  1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965].
  2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I.
  3. 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. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942 , pp. 428-429( Se Galaas et le puissant Artus).
  2. KOEHLER, Laurie. Review of Gordon K. Greene (ed.): Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vols. XVIII-XX, Journal of the American Musicological Society, XXXIX/3 (1986): 633-641.

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. Chronique de Bertrand de Guesclin par Cuvelier, edited by E. Charrière, 2 vols, Paris: 1839.
  2. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. Commentary to Volume I, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956 (typescript).
  3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Der Gebrauch des tempus perfectum diminutum in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960): 277-297.
  4. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Cuvelier, Jo(hannes)', The New Grove, V (1980): 107-108 .
  5. 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.

Recordings

Recordings of works by Johannes Cuvelier

  1. Codex Chantilly: airs de cour: HMC 901252 (1987): Se Galaas et le puissant Artus; .
  2. The Chantilly Codex: Harmonia Mundi HMC 1252 (1987): Se Galaas et le puissant Artus; .
  3. Febus Avant!: Sony Classical SK 48 195 (1991): Se Galaas et le puissant Artus; .
  4. Guenivere, Yseut, Melusine: the heritage of Celtic womanhood in the mi: GS 201007 (1991): Se Genevre, Tristan, Yssout, Helainne; .