Jehan de Lescurel

Score of A vous douce debonnaire by Jehan

Jehan de Lescurel (Template:Floruit; also Jehannot de l'Escurel) was a composer-poet of late medieval music.Template:Sfn Jehan's extensive surviving oeuvre is an important and rare examples of the formes fixes before the time of Guillaume de Machaut; it consists of 34 works: 20 ballades, 12 rondeaus and two long narrative poems, diz entés. All but one of his compositions is monophonic, representing the end of the trouvère tradition and the beginning of the polyphonic ars nova style centered around the formes fixes. Template:TOC limit

Identity and career

Jehan de Lescurel is also known as Jehannot de l'Escurel.Template:Sfn Very little is known of his life;Template:Sfn the transmission, notation and circumstances of his works suggest he was active in the early 14th century, and his compositions's textual references indicate he was active in Paris.Template:Sfn It has also been inferred that Jehan was the son of a merchant and probably received his musical training at the Notre Dame de Paris.Template:Sfn For many years, scholars assumed he was the 'Jehan de Lescurel' who had been hanged on 23 May 1304 along with three other young clerics of Notre Dame, including Oudinet Pisdoé, for "debauchery" and "crimes against women".Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn Recent research has shown that "Jehan de Lescurel" was a rather common name in early fourteenth-century Paris, and there is no other clear link between the composer and cleric.Template:Sfn

Music

He was a transitional figure from the trouvère period to the Template:Lang. His lyrical style unites him with the composers of the later period. The sole source for his music is the same manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS français 146) which preserves the interpolated version of the Roman de Fauvel.Template:Citation needed

Most of his works are monophonic songs, in the style of the trouvères; only one of his 34 works is polyphonic, although he wrote other works which have not survived. The songs are virelais, ballades, rondeaux; they include word painting more in the style of the later 14th-century composers than those of the 13th century; they are simple, charming, and debauchery is not a prominent theme.Template:Citation needed Jehan also has two extant diz entés, lengthy poems with music set only to the refrain text.Template:Sfn

Works

List of compositions by Jehan de LescurelTemplate:Sfn

W	Title	Genre
Template:Harvnb 1	A vous, douce debonnaireTemplate:Efn	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 2	Amours aus vrais cuers commune	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 3	A vous, douce debonnaireTemplate:Efn	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 4	Amours cent mille merciz	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 5	Amour, voules vous acorder	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 6	Amours que vous ai meffait	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 7	Abundance de felonnie	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 8	Amours trop vous doi cherir	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 9	Bietris est mes delis	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 10	Bien se lace	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 11	Bontes, sen, valours et pris	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 12	Bonne amour me rent	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 13	Bonnement m'agree	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 14	Belle et noble a bonne estrainne	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 15	Bien se peust apercevoir	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 16	Belle com loiaus amans	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 17	Comment que pour l'eloignance	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 18	De gracieuse dame amer	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 19	De la grant joie d'amours	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 20	Douce Amour confortez moi	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 21	Dame vo regars m'ont mis en la voie	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 22	D'amour qui n'est bien celee	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 23	Dame gracieuse et bele	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 24	Dame, par vo dous regart	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 25	Douce dame je vous pri	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 26	Douce desirree	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 27	Dame, si vous vient a gre	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 28	Diex quant la verrai	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 29	Dis tans plus qu'il ne faudroit flours	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 30	Fi, mesdisans esragie	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 31	Guilleurs me font mout souvent	Rondeau
Template:Harvnb 32	Gracieusette	Ballade
Template:Harvnb 33	Gracieuse, faitisse et sage	Diz entez
Template:Harvnb 34	Gracieus temps est quant rosier	Diz entez
No other works by Jehan survive

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Further reading

• Mediabook "Songé .i. Songe" (Jehan de Lescurel. Songs and one of the Dits Entés: "Gracïeux temps") by theEnsemble Syntagma, dir. A.Danilevski, essay by E. Danilevski Template:EAN

External links

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• Works by Jehan de Lescurel in the Medieval Music Database from La Trobe University