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Nicolas Grenon

Other names: Grenon, Nicolas (Grove); Grenon, Nicolaus (MGG)

Grenon was active in Paris from 1399, and held various positions in Laon and Cambrai. He was appointed Master of the Choirboys at the Court of Burgundy from 1412-18. He later held that position at the chapel of Martin V in Rome.

Works (1)

  1. Je ne requier de ma dame et m'amie ballade

Literature

Nicolas Grenon

LIFE

  1. MARIX, Jeanne. Histoire de la musique et des musiciens de la cour de Bourgogne sous le règne de Philippe le Bon, Strasbourg: 1939.
  2. WRIGHT, Craig. 'Grenon, Nicolas', The New Grove, VII (1980): 702.

EDITIONS

  1. Sing- und Spielmusik aus älterer Zeit. Beispielband zur allgemeinen Musikgeschichte, edited by Johannes Wolf, 2nd edition, Leipzig: Quelle und Meyer, 1931.
  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. Ballades and Canons, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XX .

OTHER LITERATURE

  1. REHM, Wolfgang. 'Grenon, Nicolaus', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, V (1956): 813-815 .
  2. French Secular Music. Ballades and Canons, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XX .