Research Catalog

Title

Music theory in late medieval Avignon : Magister Johannes Pipardi / Karen M. Cook.

Author

Cook, Karen M.

Publication

• London : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xiv, 156 pages : illustrations, charts, facsimiles; 23 cm.

Summary

"The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the shorter, unattributed, or fragmentary works have not yet received the same scrutiny. In this monograph, Cook demonstrates that a small group of such works, linked to the otherwise unknown Magister Johannes Pipudi, is in fact much more noteworthy than previous scholarship has observed. The not one but two copies of De arte cantus are in fact one of the earliest known sources for the Libellus cantus mensurabilis, purportedly by Jean des Murs and the most widely copied music theory treatise of its day, while Regulae contrapunctus, Nota quod novem sunt species contrapunctus, and a concluding set of notes in Catalan are early witnesses to the popular Ars contrapuncti treatises also attributed to des Murs. Disclosing newly discovered biographical information, it is revealed that Pipudi is most likely one Johannes Pipardi, familiar to Cardinal Jean de Blauzac, Vicar-General of Avignon. Cook provides the first biographical assessment for him and shows that late fourteenth-century Avignon was a plausible chronological and geographical milieu for the Seville treatises, hinting provocatively at a possible route of transmission for the Libellus from Paris to Italy. The monograph concludes with new transcriptions and the first English translations of the treatises."--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Royal Musical Association monographs, 37

Uniform Title

Royal Musical Association monographs ; no. 37.

Alternative Title

Magister Johannes Pipardi

Subject

• Pipardi, Johannes
• Muris, Johannes de, approximately 1300-approximately 1350
• Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina (Seville, Spain)
• Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina (Seville, Spain)
• To 1500
• Music theory > France > History > Sources. > To 1500
• Music theory > France > Avignon > History > Sources. > 500-1400
• Music theory > Spain > Seville > History > Sources. > 500-1400
• Copyists > France > Biography
• Copyists > Spain > Seville > Biography
• Music theorists > France > Avignon > Biography
• Music theorists > Spain > Seville > Biography
• Music theory
• France

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical refrences (pages [145]-151) and index.

Contents

The Seville manuscript -- The practical art of measured song -- The rules of counterpoint -- Introducing Johannes Pipardi -- Appendices. A preliminary list of members of Jean de Blauzac's household ; Texts and translations.

Call Number

JMD 21-140

ISBN

• 0367691280
• 9780367691288

OCLC

1227269865

Author

Cook, Karen M., author.

Title

Music theory in late medieval Avignon : Magister Johannes Pipardi / Karen M. Cook.

Publisher

London : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Royal Musical Association monographs, 37

Royal Musical Association monographs ; no. 37.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical refrences (pages [145]-151) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781000398809

Research Call Number

JMD 21-140