List of medieval music theorists

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Medieval music theorists

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Medieval music theorists
Name Lifetime Nationality Music theory works Ref(s)
Boethius c. 480 – 524 Roman De institutione musica [2][3]
Cassiodorus c. 485 – 585 Roman Institutiones [2][4]
Isidore of Seville c. 559 – 636 Spanish Etymologiarum sive Originum libri xx and De ecclesiasticis officiis [2][5]
Alcuin c. 735 – 804 Anglo-Saxon De octo tonis and an unknown music treatise (both of uncertain authorship) [2][6]
Rabanus Maurus c. 780 – 856 Frankish Throughout various works [2][7]
Johannes Scottus Eriugena
c. 810c. 877 Irish De divisione naturae and De divisione naturae [8]
Aurelian of Réôme fl. 840–850 Frankish Musica disciplina [2][9]
Regino of Prüm c. 842 – 915 German De synodalibus causis and Epistola de armonica institutione; Octo toni de musicae artis [10][11]
Hucbald c. 850 – 930 Benedictine (De) Musica [2][12]
Remigius of Auxerre fl. 862–c. 900 Latin The ninth book of De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii [2][13]
Odo of Cluny c. 878 – 942 French Dialogus? [10][14]
Odo of Arezzo fl. Late 10th century Italian [15]
Notker Labeo c. 950 – 1022 Benedictine Five short essays [16][17]
Guido of Arezzo
(Guido da Arezzo; Guido Aretinus)
c. 991 – after 1033 Italian Micrologus, Prologus in antiphonarium [16][18]
Wulfstan the Cantor fl. 992–6 English Brevilioquium super musicam [19]
Odo de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés [sv]? fl. 992–1029 ? Dialogus? Enchiridion musices? [20]
Otloh of Sankt Emmeram c. 1010 – 1070 Benedictine None surviving; cited in William of Hirsau's De musica [21]
Hermann of Reichenau 1013 – 1054 Benedictine Musica [16][22]
Berno of Reichenau before 1014 – 1048 Probably German De quibusdam rebus ad misse officium pertinentibus and De consona tonorum diversitate [16][23]
William of Hirsau c. 1030 – 1091 Benedictine De musica[n 1] [16][24]
Aribo Scholasticus fl.c. 1068–78 Unknown De musica [25]
Frutolf of Michelsberg mid-11th century – 1103 Unknown Breviarium [26]
Theogerus of Metz c. 1050 – 1120 German Musica [27]
Hugh of St Victor
c. 1096 – 1141 Augustinian A chapter in the Didascalicon [28]
Johannes Cotto fl.c. 1100 Unknown De musica [16][29]
Guido of Eu fl. mid-12th century
Cistercian
Regule de arte musica [30]
Theinred of Dover fl. 12th century English De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum [31]
Bartholomeus Anglicus
before 1200 – 1272 English Throughout De proprietatibus rerum [32]
Roger Bacon c. 1214 – c. 1292 English Throughout various works [33]
Petrus de Picardia fl. 1250 French Ars motettorum compilata breviter [34]
Elias Salomo fl. 2nd half of the 13th century French Scientia artis musice [35]
Egidius de Zamora
fl.c. 1260–1280 Spanish Ars musica [36]
Magister Lambertus fl.c. 1270 Unknown Tractatus de musica [37]
Amerus fl. 1271 English Practica artis musice [38]
Hieronymus de Moravia
died after 1271 Unknown Tractatus de Musica [39]
Franco of Cologne fl. mid to late 13th century German Ars cantus mensurabilis [40]
Engelbert of Admont c. 1250 – 1331 Austrian De musica [41]
Jacobus of Liège
c. 1260 – after 1330 Franco-Flemish Speculum musice [42]
Johannes de Garlandia fl.c. 1270 – 1320 French De Plana Musica and De Mensurabili Musica [43]
Johannes Balox fl. late 13th century Unknown Abbreviatio magistri Franconis a[uctore] Johanne dicto Baloce [44]
Hugo Spechtshart [de] c. 1285 – 1359/60 German Flores musicae omnis cantus Gregoriani and Chronicon Hugonis sacerdotis de Rutelinga ad annum [45]
Petrus de Cruce fl.c. 1290 French Tractatus de tonis[n 2] [46]
Petrus Le Viser fl.c. 1290–1300 ? [47]
Johannes de Muris c. 1290–95 – 1344 French Notitia artis musicae, Compendium musicae practicae, Musica speculativa secundum Boetium, Libellus cantus mensurabilis, and Ars contrapuncti [48]
Philippe de Vitry 1291–1361 French Ars nova [49]
Walter Odington fl. 1298–1316 English Summa de speculatione musice [50]
Henricus de Zeelandia fl. 14th century South Netherlandish Tractatus de cantu perfecto et imperfecto [51]
Johannes Vetulus de Anagnia fl. 14th century Italian Liber de musica [52]
Willelmus fl. 14th century Unknown Breviarium regulare musice [53]
Johannes de Grocheio fl.c. 1300 French De musica [54]
Johannes Boen early 14th century – 1367 Dutch Ars [musicae] and Musica [55]
Marchetto da Padova fl. 1305–19 Italian Lucidarium in arte musice plane and Pomerium in arte musice mensurate [56]
Simon Tunsted c. 1310 – 1369 English Quatuor Principalia Musicae [57]
Robert de Handlo fl. 1326 English Regule cum maximis magistri Franconis cum additionibus aliorum musicorum [58]
Henricus Helene fl. 1335 French Summula musice [59]
Petrus frater dictus Palma ociosa fl. 1336 French Compendium de discantu mensurabili [60]
Egidius de Francia fl. mid-14th century French De motettis componendis [61]
John of Tewkesbury fl. 1351–92 English Quatuor principalia musice[n 3] [62]
John Hanboys fl.c. 1370 English Summa [63]
Philippus de Caserta fl.c. 1370 Italian? Incipiunt regule contrapuncti secundum magistrum phylippotum de Caserta: Sciendum est quod contrapunctum est fundamentum biscanti[n 4] [64]
Johannes Ciconia c. 1370 – 1412 Franco-Flemish Nova musica [65]
Ugolino of Forlì c. 1380–1452 Italian Declaratio musicae disciplinae [66]

References

Notes

  1. ^ A second work, De musica et tonis, may be attributed to him, although it is now lost.
  2. ^ Ars motettorum of Petrus de Picardia and Ars musicae mensurabilis secundum Franconem are attributed to him by some modern scholars.
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  4. ^ Two other surviving works by Caserta – Secundum magistrum Philipotum de caserta: Contrapunctus est fundamentum biscanti and Regula contrapunctus secundum philippotum de Caserta: Nota quod novem sunt speties contrapuncti – overlap heavily with Incipiunt. Some musicologists attribute De contrapuncto quaedam regulae utiles to Caserta.

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