Pierre Aubry (musicologist)
Pierre Aubry (14 February 1874 in Paris – 31 August 1910 in Dieppe) was a French musicologist (according to professor of music and medieval studies, John Haines, Aubry was the first to use the term musicologie.[1]) who specialized in secular monophony, musical palaeography and the music of the 13th century.
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He is particularly known for applying the modal rhythms of Franconian theory to the repertoire trouvère and troubadour songs. The Alsatian scholar Johann-Baptist (later Jean-Baptist) Beck claimed plagiarism and Aubry called for a trial, which resulted in a judgment in Beck's favor. Aubry's premature death by suicide was shrouded in rumors of a duel, Beck himself believing the fatal stab wound was an accident while practicing for combat.[2]
Selected publications
- Les Proses d'Adam de Saint-Victor. Paris: H. Welter. 1900. (with Abbé E. Misset, about Adam of Saint Victor)
- Lais et descorts français du xiiie siècle] (1901)
- Souvenir d'une mission d'études musicales en Arménie (1902)
- Au Turkestan: note sur quelques habitudes musicales chez les Tadjiks et chez les Sartes (1905)
- Un "explicit" en musique du roman de Fauvel (1906)
- Le roman de Fauvel: reproduction photographique du manuscrit français 146 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (1907)
- Cent motets du XIIIe siècle, publiés d'après le manuscrit Ed.IV.6 de Bamberg (1908)
- Trouvères et troubadours] (1909, English translation 1914)
- Le chansonnier de l'Arsenal (1910, with A. Jeanroy)
References
- Haines, John (2004). Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music. Musical Performance and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 155.
- Haines, John (2001). "The Footnote Quarrels of the Modal Theory: A Remarkable Episode in the Reception of Medieval Music". Early Music History. 20: 87–120. doi:10.1017/S0261127901001024. S2CID 192007308.
Further reading
- Haines, John. "The 'Modal Theory', Fencing, and the Death of Pierre Aubry". Plainsong and Medieval Music 6 (1997): 143–150.
External links
- Cent motets du XIIIe siècle publiés d'après le manuscrit Ed. IV. 6 de Bamberg par Pierre Aubry. I. Reproduction phototypique du manuscrit original
- Cent motets du XIIIe siècle publiés d'après le manuscrit Ed. IV. 6 de Bamberg par Pierre Aubry. II. Transcription en notation moderne et mise en partition
- Huit chants héroïques de l'ancienne France, XIIe–XVIIIe siècles; poems et musique recueillis et publiés avec notices historiques
- Lais et descorts français du XIIIe siècle with Alfred Jeanroy
- Trouvères and troubadours, a popular treatise
- La rythmique musicale des troubadours et des trouvères
- Les plus anciens monuments de la musique française
- Les chansons de croisade with Joseph Bédier