French composer, poet and music theorist (1291–1361)
"de Vitry" redirects here. For other uses, see Vitry.
Manuscript of Vitry's Aman novi/Heu Fortuna/Heu me, tristis est anima mea from F-Pnm Français 146, a version of the Roman de Fauvel
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Philippe de Vitry (31 October 1291 – 9 June 1361) was a French composer-poet, bishop and music theorist in the ars nova style of late medieval music. An accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, he was widely acknowledged as a leading musician of his day, with Petrarch writing a glowing tribute, calling him: "... the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth, so great a philosopher of our age."[1] The important music treatise Ars nova notandi (1322) is usually attributed to Vitry.
It is thought that very little of Vitry's compositions survive; though he wrote secular music, only his sacred works are extant.[2]
Technique of Music) (c. 1320) by Johannes de Muris, and a collection of writings (c. 1322) attributed to PhilippedeVitry often simply called "Ars nova" today...
aristocrat and business executive Henryk Vitry, pen name of Tadeusz Żakiej (1915–1994), Polish food writer PhilippedeVitry (1291–1361), French composer, music...
of Padua), Jacques of Liège, Johannes de Grocheo, Petrus de Cruce (Pierre de la Croix), and PhilippedeVitry. Chant (or plainsong) is a monophonic sacred...
fourteenth-century genres and textures. Some of these pieces are linked to PhilippedeVitry and the nascent musical style referred to as Ars Nova. The poem revolves...
are the works of Franco of Cologne (c. 1260), Petrus de Cruce (c. 1300), and PhilippedeVitry (1322). Franco, in his Ars cantus mensurabilis, was the...
French musicians of his time, including Johannes de Muris, PhilippedeVitry and probably Guillaume de Machaut. Extremely little is known of Denis Le Grant...
source gives PhilippedeVitry as their first composer while the first comprehensive repertory of these forms was written by Guillaume de Machaut. The...
1562 with hymns in the eight modes (oktōēchos) for Sundays. 1314 – PhilippedeVitry, Garrit gallus/In nova fert/Neuma (motet, for three voices) 1318 29...
Codex and has been attributed by modern scholars to PhilippedeVitry. Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a Franciscan mission in California founded in...
Medieval composers include Hildegard of Bingen, Léonin, Pérotin, PhilippedeVitry, Guillaume de Machaut, Francesco Landini, and Johannes Ciconia. Many medieval...
in the late 1520s through mid-century, Claudin de Sermisy, Pierre Certon, Clément Janequin, and Philippe Verdelot were composers of so-called Parisian...
and ars antiqua music was succeeded by the ars nova led by PhilippedeVitry and Guillaume de Machaut. The music of the Trecento in Italy led by Francesco...
that Clement VI used the Mass of Notre-Dame of Guillaume de Machaut, there that PhilippedeVitry at the pope's invitation presented his Ars Nova, and there...
(Léonin and Pérotin). Later it evolved into the ars nova (PhilippedeVitry, Guillaume de Machaut) and the musical genres of late Middle Ages. An important...
as ars nova as opposed to ars antiqua, were the composers PhilippedeVitry and Guillaume de Machaut. In Italy, where the Provençal troubadours had also...
patterns. PhilippedeVitry was one of the earliest composers to use this technique, and his work evidently had an influence on that of Guillaume de Machaut...
de Belenoi, Aimeric de Sarlat, Albertet Cailla, Arnaut de Mareuil, Elias de Barjols, Elias Fonsalada, Falquet de Romans, Guillem Magret, Guiraut de Calanso...
of the Roman de Fauvel. Two of the era's most important composers of isorhythmic motets are Phillipe deVitry (1291–1361) and Guillaume de Machaut (c....
the Latin prolatio ("enlargement"/"prolongation"), first used by PhilippedeVitry in describing Ars Nova, a musical style that came about in 14th-century...
characteristics of the later madrigal. The Madrigali de diversi musici: libro primo de la Serena (1530), by Philippe Verdelot (1480–1540), included music by Sebastiano...
of poetry and music (mostly anonymous, but with several pieces by PhilippedeVitry, who would coin the expression ars nova to distinguish the new musical...
diplomat May 21 – Orhan Ghazi, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1274) June 9 – PhilippedeVitry, French composer (b. 1291) June 15 – Johannes Tauler, German mystic...
B/IV/2 (Munich: Henle Verlag, 1969). E. H. Roesner: Introduction to PhilippedeVitry: Complete Works (Monaco, 1984) John Caldwell, "Sources of keyboard...
von Hausen's "Ich denke underwilen" is regarded as a contrafactum of Guiot de Provins's "Ma joie premeraine". By around 1190, the German poets began to...
musicians including PhilippedeVitry, inventor of the Ars Nova, and Johannes Ciconia. As Bishop of Cavaillon, Cardinal Philippede Cabassoles, Lord of...
years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 1361: PhilippedeVitry (born 1291), French composer, music theorist and poet 1365: Zhu Derun...
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