Magister Franciscus
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Magister Franciscus | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Composer‑poet |
| Era | Ars nova |
| Known for | Three‑ part ballades De Narcissus and Phiton, Phiton, beste tres venimeuse |
| Notable work | De Narcissus; Phiton, Phiton, beste tres venimeuse |
Magister Franciscus (fl. 1370–80) was a French composer-poet in the ars nova style of late medieval music. He is known for two surviving works, the three-part ballades: De Narcissus and Phiton, Phiton, beste tres venimeuse; the former was widely distributed in his lifetime.[1] Modern scholarship disagrees on whether Franciscus was the same person as the composer F. Andrieu.
Franciscus may be the same person as the F. Andrieu who wrote Armes, amours/O flour des flours, a déploration on the death of poet-composer Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377).[2] Although, the scholarly consensus on this identification is unclear.[n 1] He may also be Franciscus de Goano or Johannes Franchois.[1] Machaut was the most dominant and important composer of the 14th century,[3] and Franciscus's works show many similarities to his, suggesting the two were contemporaries.[1]
Music
Works
| Title | No. of voices | Genre | Manuscript source: Folios | Apel | Greene |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De Narcissus | 3 | Ballade | Chantilly Codex: 19v | A 26 | G Vol 18: 16 |
| Phiton, Phiton, beste tres venimeuse | 3 | Ballade | Chantilly Codex: 20v | A 27 | G Vol 18: 18 |
| No other works by Magister Franciscus survive[n 2] | |||||
Editions
Franciscus's works are included in the following collections:
- Apel, Willi, ed. (1970–72). French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century. Corpus mensurabilis musicae. Vol. 53. Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Institute of Musicology. ISBN 9780910956291. OCLC 311424615.
- Greene, Gordon K., ed. (1982). Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564 Part 1, nos. 1–50. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. Vol. 18. Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre. OCLC 181660103.
