List of medieval music theorists
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Medieval music theorists
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Name | Lifetime | Nationality | Music theory works | Ref(s) |
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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
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c. 810 – c. 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 ? | 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
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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
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Regule de arte musica | [30] |
Theinred of Dover | fl. 12th century | English | De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum | [31] |
Bartholomeus Anglicus
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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
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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
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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
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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 | 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
- ^ A second work, De musica et tonis, may be attributed to him, although it is now lost.
- ^ Ars motettorum of Petrus de Picardia and Ars musicae mensurabilis secundum Franconem are attributed to him by some modern scholars.
- Guido d’Arezzo, Magister Lambertus and Franco of Cologne.
- ^ 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.
Citations
- ^ Wolinski & Borders 2020, § "Introduction".
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- Yudkin, Jeremy (1989). Music in Medieval Europe (1st ed.). Upper Saddle River: ISBN 978-0-13-608192-0.