Английская Википедия:Grimace (composer)
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Grimace (Шаблон:Fl; Шаблон:IPA-fr; also Grymace, Grimache or Magister Grimache) was a French composer-poet in the Шаблон:Lang style of late medieval music. Virtually nothing is known about Grimace's life other than speculative information based on the circumstances and content of his five surviving compositions of formes fixes; three ballades, a virelai and rondeau. His best known and most often performed work in modern-times is the virelai and proto-battaglia: A l’arme A l’arme.
He is thought to have been a younger contemporary of Guillaume de Machaut and based in southern France. Three of his works were included in the Chantilly Codex, which is an important source of Шаблон:Lang music. However, along with P. des Molins, Jehan Vaillant and F. Andrieu, Grimace was one of the post-Machaut generation whose music shows few distinctly Шаблон:Lang features, leading scholars to recognize Grimace's work as closer to the Шаблон:Lang style of Machaut. Шаблон:TOC limit
Identity and career
Almost nothing is known about Grimace's life other than the authorship of five works: three ballades, a virelai and rondeau, all of which are formes fixes.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Grimace's identity remains unknown and his mononymous name is likely a sobriquet, similar to other composers of his time such as Zacar, Trebor, and possibly also Solage.Шаблон:Sfn His name is recorded in medieval manuscript sources with multiple variants, including Grimace, Grymace, Grimache and Magister Grimache.Шаблон:Sfn Grimace is thought to be FrenchШаблон:Sfn or to have been active in the courts of southern France,Шаблон:Sfn since two of his ballades, Des que buisson and Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter (a double ballade), and the virelai A l’arme A l’armeШаблон:Refn are included in the Chantilly Codex,Шаблон:Sfn a 14th century manuscript containing almost exclusively secular music by French composers.Шаблон:Sfn Similarities to the music of Guillaume de Machaut (Шаблон:Circa – 1377), the most significant European composer of the 14th century,Шаблон:Sfn suggests they are contemporaries.Шаблон:Sfn The strongest resemblance is found in Machaut's works from the 1360s and 70s,Шаблон:Sfn furthering that Grimace was a younger contemporary of Machaut, who flourished in the mid-to-late 14th century.Шаблон:Sfn Musicologist Gilbert Reaney speculated that Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter might have been written for Gaston III, Count of Foix and John I of Aragon.Шаблон:Sfn
Music
Overview
Шаблон:External media The Chantilly Codex is a primary source of ars subtilior music;[1] however, Grimace's works have been noted as lacking the complicated rhythms that characterize the style, without variations in the value of the shortest note and rarely using syncopated rhythms.Шаблон:Sfn His poetry and music, especially his ballades, bear a closer resemblance to that of Machaut, an ars nova composer.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Despite their parallels, Reaney notes that Grimace's contributions to the Chantilly Codex are more advanced than those of Machaut.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn Nevertheless, with P. des Molins,Шаблон:Sfn Jehan Vaillant, and F. Andrieu, Grimace was one of the "post-Machaut" generation whose pieces retain enough Шаблон:Lang qualities to be separable from those of the rhythmically-complex Шаблон:Lang composers such as Johannes Cuvelier and Johannes Susay.Шаблон:Sfn Musicologist Шаблон:Ill cites Grimace specifically as a transitional figure from the "Machaut-style" to the "Post-Machaut" style; both before Шаблон:Lang.Шаблон:Sfn This especially included the continuation of the ballade in the same general structure and style of Machaut.Шаблон:Sfn
In both of Grimace's four part works, A l’arme A l’arme and Des que buisson, each upper part builds a contrapuntal relationship off the lowest part (tenor), while the tenor itself exchanges this role with the second lowest part (contratenor), usually when the latter goes below the tenor.Шаблон:Sfn This happens often since the contratenor is usually lower, except at important section endings, similar to late works by Machaut such as Phyton (B39), although as B39 is in three parts, the lower contratenor does not, there, take on any contrapuntal foundation.Шаблон:Sfn
Ballades
The two part ballade Dedens mon cuer survives, but is incomplete,Шаблон:Sfn and shares an identical refrain text with Trebor's ballade Passerose de beaute.Шаблон:Sfn Musicologist Yolanda Plumley notes that Dedens mon cuer also has textual similarities to other "Machaut-style" ballades: Egidius's Roses et lis ay veu en une fleur and the anonymous En mon cuer est un blanc cine pourtrait.Шаблон:Sfn
En mon cuer est un blanc cine pourtrait |
Dedens mon cuer est pourtrait' un' ymage |
One of two surviving four part works, the ballade Des que buisson is notable for its use of hocket in the triplum (third part) which Günther describes as something that "is striking and contributes to the complementary rhythm of the piece".Шаблон:Sfn Since Des que buisson means to represent the coming of spring, musicologist Elizabeth Eva Leach explains the hocket rhythms, as well as falling thirds and repeated notes, as part of a birdsong motif.Шаблон:Sfn
In Grimace's double ballade Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter, similarities to Machaut are especially apparent since Grimace adopts musical rhymes at the main cadences.Шаблон:Sfn The work has the same rhymes as Machaut's double ballade Quant Theseus/Ne quier (B34), with which it also shares a refrain text.Шаблон:Sfn Despite this, Leach notes that Quant Theseus/Ne quier is in four parts with two texted upper voices and an untexted contratenor, as opposed to the three-part Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter where only the tenor is untexted. Because of this, closer technical similarities can be drawn to the polytextual double ballade Je me merveil/J’ay pluseurs fois by Jacob Senleches, and Jehan Vaillant’s double rondeau Dame, doucement/Doulz amis.Шаблон:Sfn Both texts of Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter have an Ubi sunt theme, which is when, as Leach describes it, "hyperbolical comparisons are made between the lady and/or patron and a list of figures from the classical, biblical and/or Christian past".Шаблон:Sfn Other works in the Chantilly Codex are representative of this, often signified by also beginning the text with "Se".Шаблон:Sfn Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter is Grimace's second most frequently performed work.Шаблон:Refn
Virelai
Шаблон:External media Grimace's most frequently performed and best known composition is his other four part work, the virelai A l’arme A l’arme,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn which musicologist Ursula Günther describes as "unique and extremely interesting",Шаблон:Sfn and musicologist Willi Apel characterizes as anticipating the later battaglia form.Шаблон:Sfn Musicologist Jeremy Yudkin expands on this, noting the many battle-cry and fanfare-like phrases representing warfare; something that was commonplace in 14th century France.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Refn The work is for four parts – two cantus parts, a contratenor, and a tenorШаблон:Sfn – and the cantus voices share text, while the contratenor and tenor parts imitate the upper voices despite being un-texted.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn At the same time, the contratenor and tenor have their own syncopation and rhythmic interplay with each other. Yudkin notes that the work's second section has a more "chordal texture", leading to a half cadence in the first ending.Шаблон:Sfn A copy of the piece in the Шаблон:Ill is missing the second cantus part, although musicologist Virginia Ervin Newes noted that this version is notable "since it has the added text in the tenor and contratenor at each point of imitation".Шаблон:Sfn
Rondeau
Grimace's rondeau for three parts, Je voy ennui, survived in manuscript 222 C. 22 in the Bibliothèque municipale of Strasbourg until 1870/1, when it was destroyed during the Franco-Prussian war.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The music is now known only in a Шаблон:Circa transcription of this source by musicologist Edmond de Coussemaker;Шаблон:Sfn[2] it is preserved in Brussels, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique, MS 56286.[2] Je voy ennui has less directional counterpoint than his other works, potentially due to errors in the transcription that are now uncheckable.Шаблон:Sfn
Doubtful works
Apel proposed that two virelais – C’estoit ma douce and Rescoés: Horrible feu d’ardent desir/Rescoés: Le feu de mon loyal servant – are by Grimace based on stylistic similarities, the latter of which shows considerable textual and musical similarities to A l’arme A l’arme.Шаблон:Sfn Their attribution remains doubtful.Шаблон:Sfn
Works
Title | Шаблон:Abbr of voices | Genre | Manuscript source: FoliosШаблон:Refn | Apel | Greene |
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Dedens mon cuer | 2 | Ballade | Bern, Burgerbibliothek. Sammlung Bongarsiana, A. 471, f 23v University of Pennsylvania, MS 11 (text only) |
Шаблон:Harvnb 34 | Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 14 |
Des que buisson | 4 | Ballade | Chantilly Codex: 53r San Lorenzo: 146v [99v][3] |
Шаблон:Harvnb 35 | Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 86 |
Se Zephirus/Se Jupiter | 3 | (Double) Ballade | Chantilly Codex: 53r | Шаблон:Harvnb 36 | Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 15 |
A l’arme/A l’arme/Tru truШаблон:Refn | 4 | Virelai | Chantilly Codex: 55v | Шаблон:Harvnb 37 | Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 91 Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 22 |
3 | Шаблон:Ill: 69v | – | – | ||
Je voy ennui | 3 | Rondeau | Шаблон:Tooltip: 25rШаблон:Refn | – | – |
Шаблон:Tooltip: 25r[2] | Шаблон:Harvnb 38 | Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 5 | |||
No other works by Grimace survive |
Title | Шаблон:Abbr of voices | Genre | Manuscript source: FoliosШаблон:Refn | Apel | Greene |
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C’estoit ma douce nouriture | 3 | Virelai | Шаблон:Ill: 64r San Lorenzo: 133v-134r [101v-102r][3] Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 29775 vol. 8 |
Шаблон:Harvnb 186 | Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 22 |
Horrible feu d’ardent desir/Rescoés: Le feu de mon loyal servant | 3 | Virelai | Шаблон:Ill: 58r | Шаблон:Harvnb 222 | Шаблон:Harvnb Шаблон:Harvnb: 57 |
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