Dictionary of Music - Birding America

medieval 235NOTABLE MEDIEVAL MUSICIANSMusician Origin/Active in Noted forAdam de la Halle (c. 1245–c. 1287) Northern France Last of the trouvères; monophonicchansons; motets; oldest survivingpolyphonic secular songs (rondeaux).Bartolino de Padova (fl. c. 1370–1405) Padua/northern Italy Ballate and madrigals, mostly two-part, afew three-part.Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1140–1195) France/Limousin, Toulouse, One of the greatest troubadours.Dordogne, England (court ofEleanor of Aquitaine)Johannes Ciconia (c. 1335–1411) Liège/Avignon, Italy Mass movements, motets (some isorhyth-(especially Padua), Liègemic), Italian ballate and madrigals,French virelais, treatise (De proportionibusmusicae).Franco of Cologne (fl. 1250–1280) Cologne, Germany? Formalized mensural notation in treatiseArs Cantus Mensurabilis (c. 1260).Frauenlob (Heinrich of Meissen) Germany/north and east, Renowned minnesinger.(c. 1255–1318)especially MainzGiovanni da Cascia (da Firenze) Italy/Florence, Verona, Two-part madrigals, three-part caccie.(fl. c. 1340)MilanGuido d’Arezzo (c. 997–c. 1050)* Italy/Arezzo Developed 4-line staff, solmizationsyllables; his Micrologus was first comprehensivetreatise on musical practice.Jacopo da Bologna (fl. c. 1350) Italy/Florence, Verona, Milan Two- and three-part madrigals, caccie,sacred songs.Jacques de Liège (c. 1260–c. 1330) Liège Wrote influential 7-volume treatise,Speculum musicae; favored ars antiquaover ars nova.Jehan de Lescurel (d. 1304) France/Paris Mostly monophonic ballades, rondeaux,(Jehannot de l’Escurel)virelais.Francesco Landini (1325–1397)* Italy/Florence, Venice Ballate; also madrigals, caccie; renownedorganist.Leonin (fl. c. 1163–1190)* France/Paris First great Notre Dame school composer;two-part organa.Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377)* Northern France/Paris, RheimsLais, motets, ballades, rondeaux, virelais;oldest surviving complete Mass by onecomposer.Matteo da Perugia (died 1418) Italy/Milan, Pavia, Bologna Rondeaux, virelais, ballades, Massmovements.Johannes de Muris (Jehan de Murs) France/Normandy, Paris Wrote very influential treatise on mensural(c. 1295–1350)notation and musical proportions (Arsnove musice, c. 1320).Neidhart von Reuenthal Germany/Bavaria, Austria Minnesinger; summer and winter songs,(c. 1185–after 1236)latter in Bar form.Niccolò da Perugia (fl. 1360–1375) Italy/Florence Two-part ballate and madrigals, three-partcaccie.(Continues)