Arnold de Lantins (fl. 1420s – before 2 July 1432) was a Netherlandish composer of the late medieval and early Renaissance eras. He is one of a few composers who shows aspects of both medieval and Renaissance style, and was a contemporary of Dufay during Dufay's sojourn in Italy.
Very little is known about his life, except for a few years in the 1420s to around 1430. It is presumed that he was from Flanders or adjacent areas. In the early 1420s he was probably in the service of the Malatesta family in either Rimini or Pesaro, since Dufay mentioned him in the text of a rondeau which was written between 1420 and 1424. Lantins was in Venice in 1428 and Rome in 1431, in the latter city as a singer in the papal chapel choir, along with Dufay. He was only in Rome six months; after that he disappears from history. Rome was entering a period of turmoil related to the Conciliar movement after the death, in February 1431, of Pope Martin V; many musicians left at that time or shortly after, and Lantins may have been one of them.
It is not known for certain if Arnold de Lantins was a relative of Hugo de Lantins, a composer active at the same time, but since their works often appear together in collections and they seem to have been in the same geographical regions, it is not unlikely. However, a sharp stylistic difference between the works of the two composers shows they can not be the same person. Earlier theories that there was a third "de Lantins," a certain Ray de Lantins, known from a single inscription in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mus. 3224, were shown to be wrong in 2012 by Margaret Bent and Robert Klugseder, upon the discovery of a second, fuller inscription to "Raynaldus de lantins" of a Credo ascribed to Arnold de Lantins in two other sources.[1] This ascription makes it extremely likely that Ray should be read as a variant of Arnold.
Lantin's music was held in high regard, and appears alongside that of Dufay, Gilles Binchois and Johannes Ciconia in contemporary manuscript collections. In particular, one motet – Tota pulchra es – is found in widely distributed sources; since this was before the advent of printing technology, wide distribution of copies is taken as evidence of a composer's fame and popularity. Arnold wrote a complete mass, found in Bologna Q15 (all the movements are found in OX 213 although the last two movements are separated – only the first three movements are found in Bologna 2216), as well as several parts of a composite mass in Bologna Q15, augmenting movements written by Johannes Ciconia. Several other examples exist of composers adding movements to partial masses written by other composers, for example Zacara da Teramo, particularly in Bologna Q15. Musically Arnold's mass movements are fairly simple, using three voices, head motif technique, and avoiding imitative writing. Some of his other sacred music, such as his Marian motets, contain florid melodic writing and some use of imitation.
He also wrote secular music, including ballades and rondeaux, all of which are in French, as well as a few shorter sacred pieces. Some of them refer to specific events or specific people, but none of either have been conclusively identified.
^David Fallows, review of Margaret Bent and Robert Klugseder, Ein Liber cantus aus dem Veneto (um 1440) (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2012), in Plainsong and Medieval Music 23.1 (2014) (subscription required)
shortly after, and Lantins may have been one of them. It is not known for certain if ArnolddeLantins was a relative of Hugo deLantins, a composer active...
wrote both sacred and secular music; he may have been a relative of ArnolddeLantins, another composer active at the same time in the same area. Little...
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Prepositus Brixiensis and Zacara da Teramo. In the 15th century both ArnolddeLantins and Guillaume Dufay wrote ballate; they were among the last to do...
Michelangelo Rossi, Brian Mann, Ed. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Arnold & Wakelin 2011 Artusi 1950, p. 395. Bukofzer, Manfred R. (1947). Music in...
precedents were 16 works by Adam de la Halle and one by Jehan de Lescurel. Not until the ars nova composer Guillaume de Machaut did any composer write a...
to trobar "to compose, to discuss, to invent" (Wace, Brut, editions I. Arnold, 3342). Trobar may come, in turn, from the hypothetical Late Latin *tropāre...
da Cividale, Antonius Romanus, Bartolomeo da Bologna, Roy Henry, ArnolddeLantins, Leonel Power, and John Dunstaple.[citation needed] An early composer...
composer as well; he was in the choir at the same time as composers ArnolddeLantins and Guillaume Dufay. During this period Brassart most likely composed...
of the early 15th century, by composers such as Johannes Ciconia, ArnolddeLantins and Zacara da Teramo. While it is possible that some of these composers...
library membership required) Schoop, Hans (2009) [2001]. "(4) Arnold [Arnoldo, Arnoldus] deLantins [Lantinis, Latinis]". Grove Music Online. Revised by J....
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attributed to him by Jodocus Metzler [de] in 1613. The Gesta Karoli Magni ("The Deeds of Charles the Great")—also known as De Carolo Magno ("Concerning Charles...
contemporaries of Binchois included John Dunstaple, Lionel Power, Hugo deLantins and ArnolddeLantins. The Burgundian chapel choir was unique in allowing its members...
Leeman L. (2009) [2001]. "Ockeghem [Okeghem, Hocquegam, Okegus etc.], Jean de". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630...
colloquial references to Italy. There he met the composers Hugo and ArnolddeLantins, who were also among the musicians of the Malatesta household. In...
Tapissier. Cambridge: American Institute of Musicology. OCLC 83198152. ArnolddeLantins, Missa Verbum Incarnatum, Ricercar CD RIC 207, sung by the Capilla...
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2001 - ArnolddeLantins: Missa Verbum Incarnatum. Capilla Flamenca with Psallentes, Oltremontano and Clari Cantuli. Ricercar 207. 2002 - Pierre de la Rue:...
that publication was Se je vous ay bien. Several copies of Je ne requier de ma dame, however, have been discovered since Reaney's publication. The pieces...
2001 - ArnolddeLantins: Missa Verbum Incarnatum. Capilla Flamenca with Psallentes, Clari Cantuli and Oltremontano. Ricercar 207. 2002 - Pierre de la Rue:...
was named along with Adrien Basin and Antoine Busnois as "chantre et valet de chambre" to Charles, indicating the special regard in which he was held. In...
are: J. de Corbe J. de Alto Bosco G. Martinus Ricardus Blith Johannes de Oxonia G. Mughe Edmundus de Buria Blith G. Episwich J. Nicholaus de Vade Famelico...
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