1330s in music

none 1330 music art The 1330s in music included several notable events and developments. Events 1330 Juan Ruiz, the Arcipreste de Hita, writes the first version of his El libro de buen amor, which describes many musical practices in Spain.Robert Stevenson, "Arcipreste de Hita [Ruiz, Juan]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 1334 February – Merlin, a la vidulator at the court of Edward III was given leave and a grant towards his expenses to go to minstrel schools on the Continent, probably at Mechelen, Ypres, or Deventer, where there were celebrated schools for fiddlers.Mary Remnant, "Fiddle [fedylle, ffidil, ffythele, fiele, fithele, phidil, vithele etc.]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 1337 exact date unknown – Pedro IV of Aragon summons to his court the musicians Ali Eziqua and Çahat Mascum, his favourite players of the rebec and exabeba.Robert Stevenson and Maricarmen Gómez, "Spain, §I: Art Music, 1. Early History", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 1338 28 January (by modern reckoning; 1337 by ecclesiastical usage of the time) – Guillaume de Machaut takes up a canonicate in Reims, "per procuratiorem" (i.e., by proxy).Roger Bowers, "Guillaume de Machaut and His Canonry of Reims, 1338-1377", Early Music History 23 (2004): 1–48. Citation on 7–8. Bands formed 1334 – Pope Benedict XII institutes the Papal Cappella, which would eventually become the Capella Sistina.Adele Poindexter and Barbara H. Haggh, "Chapel", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). References Category:14th century in music