biography
pronunciation:
[veetree]
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| lived:
| (1291–1361)
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| biography:
| French theorist, poet, and composer, born in Champagne, NE France. Of great intelligence, he was secretary to Charles IV Le Bel, then held numerous posts with Philippe VI and Jean II. He led an active military career, then became Bishop of Meaux in 1351. A poet and friend of Petrarch, he was an expert in musical science and formulated new concepts in rhythm and notation in the ‘Ars Nova’, of which he was the main writer (c.1322). He is considered the inventor of forms of motets, ballades, lays, and rondeaux, many of which, like his poems, have been lost. Those extant are found in Le Roman de Fauvel. |
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