1390s in music

none 1390 music art Events This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1390s. 1390 The monastery at Durham appoints John Stele to teach the Benedictine monks and eight secular boys to play the organs and to sing "triple song" (possibly faburden).Brian Crosby, "Durham", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001); Brian Trowell, "Faburden [faburdon, faburthon, fabourden, faberthon etc.]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001) 1391 1 February – Antonio Zacara da Teramo, a singer in the papal chapel, is appointed "scriptor litterarum apostolicarum" (papal secretary) by Pope Boniface IX.Agostino Ziino, "'Magister Antonius dictus Zacharias de Teramo': alcune date e molte ipotesi", Rivista Italiana di Musicologia 14 (1979): 311–48. Citation on 311. exact dates unknown The band of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, purchases new trumpets, clarions, shawms, a bombard, and a bagpipe.Laurence Libin and Arnold Myers, "Instruments, Collections of, §2: Medieval", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Johannes Tapissier travels to Milan and Avignon in the entourage of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.Craig Wright, "Tapissier, Johannes [Jean de Noyers]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 1392 25 November – Eustache Deschamps completes fro L’Art de dictier et de fere chancons, balades, virelais et rondeaulx.Laura Kendrick, "Rhetoric and the Rise of Public Poetry: The Career of Eustache Deschamps", Studies in Philology 80, no. 1 (Winter 1983): 1–13. Citation on 7. exact date unknown – A group of merchants in Birmingham establish the Gild of the Holy Cross, which appointed priests to sing at the parish church, St Martin in the Bull Ring, as well as an organist whom they housed near to the church.Margaret Handford, "Birmingham", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 1393 exact date unknown – The French singer and composer Bosquet (Johannes de Bosco, Jean du Bois) receives a papal grant as a musician to Duke Louis II of Anjou.Ursula Günther and Gilbert Reaney, "Bosquet [Boquet]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 1394 early in the year – The canons of Notre-Dame de Paris successfully solicit 200 francs from Charles VI for rebuilding the cathedral organ, after the original had fallen into disrepair.Craig Wright, Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550, Cambridge Studies in Music (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989): 146. 978-0-521-24492-3 (cloth); 978-0-521-08834-3 (pbk). 1395 exact date unknown – Johannes Tapissier makes a second visit to Avignon in the entourage of Philip the Bold. 1397 exact date unknown – Earliest reference to a clavecembalum (in this case meaning a clavichord), in a letter from a Paduan lawyer Lambertacci, attributing its invention to Magister Armanus de Alemania.Edmund A. Bowles, "On the Origin of the Keyboard Mechanism in the Late Middle Ages", Technology and Culture 7 (1966): 152–62. Citation on 154. 1399 exact date unknown – Johannes Tapissier visits Flanders in the entourage of Philip the Bold. Works c. 1390–95. Jacob Senleches – La harpe de melodieNors S. Josephson, "Die Konkordanzen zu 'En nul estat' und 'La harpe de melodie'", Die Musikforschung 25, No. 3 (July–September 1972), 292–300. Citation on 295. 1399 May or June – Johannes Ciconia, Una panthera in compagnia de Marte madrigal for three voices, written for the diplomatic visit by Lazzaro Guinigi of Lucca to Gian Galeazzo Visconti in Pavia . Births thumb|Guillaume Dufay (left), with Gilles Binchois, circa 1440s August 5, c. 1397 – Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer (died November 27, 1474) Deaths 1391 After June 10 – Matheus de Sancto Johanne, French composerAndrew Wathey, "Matheus de Sancto Johanne [Mahuetus, Mayshuet (de Joan)]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). 1397 September 2 – Francesco Landini, Italian composer, poet, organist, singer and instrument maker (born c.1325) References Category:14th century in music Music