Gui d'Ussel

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His name is "Gui duisel" above the top right of his miniature.
Gui depicted as a knight in armour bearing a mace.

Gui d'Ussel, d'Ussèl, or d'Uisel (

coblas, and eight tensos, several with his relatives and including a partimen with Maria de Ventadorn.[2] Four of his cansos melodies remain.[1][3]

According to his

Auvergne, rarely travelling abroad.[5]

Gui addresses several of his songs to Maria de Ventadorn (including the partimen) and makes reference to

Marie of Montpellier.[1] His vida records how Gui obeyed a papal injunction from Pierre de Castelnau to cease composing in 1209 and the fact that none of his poems can be reliably assigned later than that date and none mention the Albigensian Crusade, it is probable that Gui did indeed obey papal orders and cease writing.[1][6]

Gui's poetry to some measure imitates that of his contemporary Cadenet, whom he mentions in one piece.[7] His melodies have something in common with those of Gaucelm Faidit, whom he may have met in Ventadorn.[5] His melodies all stay within a minor tenth interval and use numerous thirds and triads, but never repeating phrases in the AAB form.[5] His music is characterised by motivic variety and he has been praised for his "subtle and creative compositional faculty".[8] The later troubadour Daude de Pradas referred to Gui in a tenso and his melody has given some indication that it may have been influenced by those of Gui.[9]

Gui's works were reproduced in the anthology of Ferrarino Trogni da Ferrara.

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f Aubrey, 16.
  2. ^ Gaunt and Kay, 284.
  3. ^ Perrin, 323.
  4. ^ a b c d Egan, 44.
  5. ^ a b c Aubrey, 222.
  6. ^ Egan, 45, notes that the Council of Montpellier of 1214 forbade clerics to mingle with curias vel hospicia vel colloquia mulierum.
  7. ^ Aubrey, 21 and 225.
  8. ^ Aubrey, 224.
  9. ^ Aubrey, 232.

Sources

  • Aubrey, Elizabeth. The Music of the Troubadours. Indiana University Press, 1996.
    ISBN 0-253-21389-4
    .
  • Egan, Margarita, ed. and trans. The Vidas of the Troubadours. New York: Garland, 1984.
    ISBN 0-8240-9437-9
    .
  • Gaunt, Simon, and Kay, Sarah, edd. The Troubadours: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    ISBN 0-521-57473-0
    .
  • Perrin, Robert H. "Descant and Troubadour Melodies: A Problem in Terms." Journal of the American Musicological Society, 16:3, (Autumn, 1963), pp. 313–324.
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