(Stand: 25. Juli 2007) ANDERSON, Michael Alan ... - Universität Wien

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MUSIC CONFERENCE 2007 – WIEN, 7.-11. AUGUST ABSTRACTS
umfangreich überlieferten Bestand der Löbauer Kantorei. Welche Rolle dabei das Œuvre
des Handl-Gallus generell für die zeitgenössische Repertoirebildung und bei der Formulierung
einer eigenständigen musikalisch-rhetorischen Figurenlehre in Ostmitteleuropa
spielte, wird gleichfalls Gegenstand meiner Betrachtungen sein.
Abschließend soll die Präsentation der aktuellen Forschungsergebnisse unter interdisziplinärer
und transregionaler Perspektive zu einem Ausblick auf zukünftige Forschungen
zu Jacob Handl-Gallus, seinem Wirken sowie den mit seiner Person und seinem
Wirken in Verbindung stehenden Transferprozessen anregen.
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NICOLAS, Patrice (Université de Montréal)
Jacotin (c. 1495–c. 1556) and the Cult of St. Michael
Freitag/Friday, 10.8., 9.45 Uhr, KuGe, SR 1
In 1469, King Louis XI founded the Order of St. Michael, thus conferring to the Archangel
the role of protector of the kingdom of France and its knights. In the 16 th century, an era
during which hardly a decade went by in which France was not involved in some war, it is
not surprising to witness the emergence of French composers, tied or not to the French
Royal Chapel (Jacotin, Sermisy, Arcadelt notably), creating some musical works imploring
an angelic rescue. However, compared to other texts favoured by composers of the 16 th
century, the polyphonic settings of a text dedicated to the Archangel Michael are relatively
rare and seem not to have held the attention of musicologists. This paper proposes a
comparison of the literary texts used and the compositional strategies operating in some of
these polyphonic settings, while focusing more particularly on what seems to be the first
of these works dedicated to the Archangel Michael, that of Jacotin (published in 1519 by
Petrucci), one of the most enigmatic composers to have been active during the first half of
the 16 th century.
The text of his motet Michael archangele could indeed have been drawn straight from
the commemoration in honour of St. Michael that can be found in the manuscript GkS
1612 4° preserved at the Royal Library of Copenhagen; this is a French book of hours
(c.1500) entitled Heures de Charles de la maison de France, dernier Duc de Bourgogne that went
unnoticed up to this day. This possible literary source as well as some archaic compositional
processes operating in this motet, could indeed allow us to date its composition
more accurately and, in a more general way, to formulate new hypotheses on the career of
Jacotin. Furthermore, this study may bring to light new data relative to the corpus of religious
works composed by this still relatively unknown composer and, since it is the first
analytical glance at the tradition of motets dedicated to St. Michael, is of special interest
for the history of the genre in 16 th century Europe.
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