Picardy Musical Heritage is dedicated to the critical edition of music by composers from Picardy or who worked in this region – situated in the North of France – during the Renaissance. The site collects the critical editions of 268 pieces of music (259 available online), 41 references to manuscripts and printed sources produced from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, and 8 biographies. Critical editions may be downloaded, free of charge, in three formats: PDF, Sibelius and MEI files. This is a project in progress, periodically enriched with new musical editions.

Picardy Musical Heritage makes available to our community of music lovers, musicians and researchers a large repertoire of masses, motets and chansons totally forgotten for centuries. In many cases, Picardy Musical Heritage offers the only existing edition of this repertoire. The user will find music by famous composers, such as Antoine Bruhier, Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin, Eustache Du Caurroy, François Dulot, Paschal de L’Estocart, Nicolas de Marle, Vulfran Samin, Mathieu Sohier, and others less known, such Jean Doublet (organist at Beauvais cathedral in the 1530s) or Laurent Bonard (master of the choirboys at Amiens cathedral in the 1550s), who held notable positions in Picardy musical institutions. The website also proposes original biographies of the composers in order to promote the musical heritage of Picardy, a region notable for the education of singers and composers, who disseminated their musical culture in many European courts. The results of the group's researches are published in the volume La musique en Picardie du XIVe au XVIIe siècle, edited by Camilla Cavicchi, Marie-Alexis Colin and Philippe Vendrix (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012). See also Richard Wexler, Antoine Bruhier: Life and Works of a Renaissance Papal Composer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014).

Musicologists interested in contributing are invited to contact the responsible of the project, Marie-Alexis Colin.

External links

Antoine Bruhier: Life and Works of a Renaissance Papal Composer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014)
La musique en Picardie du XIVe au XVIIe siècle (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012)

Contributors

Belliot Hyacinthe

Besson Vincent

Colin Marie-Alexis

Fiala David

Gabriëls Nele

Nicolas Patrice

Pino Javier

Poulain Mathias

Vendrix Philippe


Roles: Copyist/Scribe

Roles: Dedicator

Antonius Hucher fl. 1538/1550

Roles: Music printer ; Printer/Publisher

Buval fl. circa 1610

Roles: Copyist/Scribe ; Music copyist

François Dulot fl. 1514-1531

Roles: Composer ; Master of choirboys

Guillaume Du Fay circa 1397-1474

Roles: Choirboy ; Choirmaster ; Cleric ; Composer ; Illegitimate birth ; Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon) ; Member of a church (lower ranked officer) ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Member of a princely/private household ; Priest

Roles: Lyricist-Poet ; Printer/Publisher ; Writer/Scientist

Henricus de Campis fl. 1534/1549

Roles: Bookseller ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Music printer ; Printer/Publisher

Jean Doublet fl. 1532/1540

Roles: Composer ; Organist

Jean Lebuef fl. 1362

Roles: Composer ; Monastic Order

Johannes de Buglhat fl. 1528/1555

Roles: Bookseller ; Member of a court chapel (musician) ; Music printer ; Printer/Publisher

Margaret of Valois [Marguerite de Valois] 1553-1615

Roles: Dedicatee/Owner

Margaret of Valois-Angoulême [Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême] 1492-1549

Roles: Dedicatee/Owner ; Lyricist-Poet

Mathieu Sohier fl. before 1533-1548

Roles: Choirmaster ; Composer ; Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon) ; Priest

Nicolas de Marle fl. 1544-circa 1568

Roles: Choirmaster ; Composer ; Master of choirboys

Nicole Grenon 1382-1456

Roles: Choirmaster ; Cleric ; Master of choirboys ; Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon) ; Member of a church (lower ranked officer) ; Priest ; Singer

Ovide 43 BC-after 17

Roles: Lyricist-Poet

Pierre Attaingnant circa 1494-1551/1553

Roles: Employer/Patron ; Music printer

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