John Hothby
John Hothby (Otteby, Hocby, Octobi, Ottobi, c. 1410–1487), also known by his Latinised names Johannes Ottobi or Johannes de Londonis, was an English Renaissance music theorist and composer who travelled widely in Europe and gained an international reputation for his work.
Biography
Little is known of the origins or early life of John Hothby. He appears to have left England after 1435 but most of the references to him in surviving sources are to the last twenty years of his life, by which time he had taken vows as a
Carmelite friar and he claimed in his own work to have travelled in Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, before he went to a convent in Ferrara and then in 1467 took employment in Lucca, probably teaching music at the cathedral.[1] In 1486 he was recalled to England by the new king Henry VII and appears to have died in the north of England in the following year.[1]
Work and influence
Surviving compositions include six sacred Latin works and three secular Italian songs.Contenance Angloise between England and the continent.[5]
References
- ^ a b c T. Dumitrescu, The early Tudor court and international musical relations (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007), p. 197.
- ^ D. M. Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 395.
- ^ K. Berger, Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal Polyphony from Marchetto Da Padova to Gioseffo Zarlino (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 36.
- ^ T. Dumitrescu. The early Tudor court and international musical relations (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007), p. 198.
- ^ T. Dumitrescu, The Early Tudor Court and International Musical Relations (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007), p. 199.
Further reading
- Reaney, Gilbert (1988). "The Musical Theory of John Hothby". Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap. 42: 119–133. JSTOR 3687105.
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