Philippe de Vitry

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Life

Born: 31 October 1291

Died: 9 June 1361

Biography: Composer, music theorist and renowned poet. Believed to have written the defining treatise on Ars Nova in 1322, after which this musical stylistic period is known. Most of the motets, like the poems, related to the politics of the time. The number of surviving works lies between 11 and 26, with 16 attributions being generally accepted; Polyphonic music of the fourteenth century v. 1 contains Leo Schrade's edition of the Complete Works with 14 motets, all for 3 or 4 voices.

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List of choral works

  • Aman novi / Heu Fortuna / Heu me, tristis est anima mea
  • Cum statua / Hugo / Magister invidie
  • Douce playsence / Garison / Neuma quinti toni
  • Floret / Florens / Neuma
  • Garrit gallus / In nova fert / Neuma 3vv
  • Impudenter circuivi / Virtutibus / Contratenor / Tenor
  • O canenda / Rex quem / Contratenor / Rex regum
  • Petre clemens / Lugentium / Tenor
  • Tribum / Quoniam secta / Merito hec patimur
  • Tuba sacre fidei / In arboris / Virgo sum 3vv
  • Vos quid admiramini / Gratissima / Gaude gloriosa 4vv

Lost except for lyrics

  • Phi millies / O creator / Iacet granum / Quam sufflabit
  • De terre en grec Gaulle appellee

Less certain attributions

  • Colla iugo / Bona condit / Libera me Domine
  • Firmissime / Adesto / Alleluya, Benedictus
  • Flos ortus / Celsa cedrus / Tenor
  • Orbis orbatus / Vos pastores / Fur non venit
  • Quid scire proderit / Dantur officia

Attributed on stylistic grounds alone

  • Almifonis / Rosa / Tenor
  • Amer / Durement / Dolor meus
  • Apta caro / Flos / Alma redemptorisa mater
  • In virtute / Decens carmen / Clamor meus / Contratenor
  • O Philippe / O bone
  • Per grama protho paret
  • Scariotis / Jure
  • Se cuers / Rex
  • Se paour / Diex / Concupisco
  • Servant regem / O Philippe / Rex regum

 
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Publications

  • Ars nova, 1322 (see Fuller, Sarah: "A Phantom Treatise of the Fourteenth Century? The Ars Nova" The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter, 1985-1986), pp. 23-50)
  • Roman de Fauvel, 1317

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