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Johannes Janua

Other names: Johannes de Janua (Apel, Grove)

Johannes was an Italian composer from Genoa (Lat. Janua). His two surviving works in ModA may have been composed in Genoa, an important centre of French culture in the early 15thC.

Works (2)

  1. Ma douce amour et ma sperance virelai
  2. Une dame requis l'autrier d'amer ballade

Literature

Johannes Janua

LIFE

GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Johannes de Janua', The New Grove, IX (1980): 665-666 .

EDITIONS

  1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950 .
  2. French Secular Music. Virelais, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXI.

STUDIES OF WORKS

  1. SWARTZ, Anne. 'A new chronology of the ballades of Machaut', Acta Musicologica, XLVI (1974): 192-207 (p. 202)( Une dame requis l'autrier d'amer).
  2. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154( Ma douce amour et ma sperance) .

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950 .
  2. SWARTZ, Anne. 'A new chronology of the ballades of Machaut', Acta Musicologica, XLVI (1974): 192-207 (p. 202).
  3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Johannes de Janua', The New Grove, IX (1980): 665-666 .
  4. LONG, Michael P. 'Francesco Landini and the Florentine cultural élite', Early Music History, 3 (1983): 83-99.