Richard Loqueville
Richard Loqueville (died 1418) was a French composer whose music spanned the transition between Medieval and Renaissance music. A musician at Cambrai Cathedral, he taught the celebrated composer Guillaume Dufay there in 1413–1414.
Life and career[]
Little is known of Loqueville's life. A trained harpist, he taught it to Edward III, the son of the Robert, Duke of Bar, in 1410.[1] He is also known to have taught plainsong to the Duke's choirboys.[1] From 1413 until the end of his life he taught music at Cambrai Cathedral alongside Nicolas Malin. The celebrated composer Guillaume Dufay was likely a student his student at the cathedral[2] and Dufay's first compositions were probably written under his influence and instruction.[3] In 1418 he died in Cambrai.[1]
Music[]
Attributed to him are four rondeaux, a ballade, an isorhythmic motet in honour of the Breton saint Yvo, a Marian motet, and several Mass movements.[1]
Works[]
| Title | No. of voices | Genre | CMM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gloria, Credo | 3 | Gloria in excelsis Deo/Credo | |
| Gloria, | 3vv | Gloria in excelsis Deo | |
| Gloria | 3 | Gloria in excelsis Deo | |
| Sanctus[n 1] | 4 | Sanctus | |
| O flos in divo/Sacris pignoribus | 3 | Isorhythmic motet | |
| O regina clementissima | 3 | Antiphon | |
| Quant compaignons | 3 | Ballade | |
| Je vous pri | 3 | Rondeau refrain | |
| Pour mesdisans | 3 | Rondeau | |
| Puisque je suy amoureux | 3 | Rondeau | |
| Qui ne veroit que vos deulx yeux | 3 | Rondeau |
Editions[]
Loqueville's works are included in the following collections:
- Reaney, Gilbert, ed. (1966). Early Fifteenth-Century Music. Corpus mensurabilis musicae 11. Vol. 3, Collected Works of Richard Loqueville, Estienne Grossin, R. Libert, and Benoit. Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Institute of Musicology. OCLC 679376469.
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Notes[]
- ^ with trope ‘Qui januas mortis’
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Reaney 2001.
- ^ Planchart 1993, pp. 357–59.
- ^ Kim 1990, p. 41.
Sources[]
- Books
- Boone, Graeme MacDonald (1987). Dufay's Early Chansons: Chronology and Style in the Manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canonici Misc. 213 (Thesis). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. OCLC 606319163.
- Fenlon, Iain (2009). Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-10431-9.
- Guion, David M. (2010). A History of the Trombone. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7445-9.
- Kim, Mi-Ock (1990). The Emergence of Harmonic Tonality in Dufay's Songs (Thesis). East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University. OCLC 215004828.
- McKinnon, James, ed. (1990). Antiquity and the Middle Ages: From Ancient Greece to the 15th Century. London, England: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-21157-9.
- Moll, Kevin N., ed. (2014). Counterpoint and Compositional Process in the Time of Dufay: Perspectives from German Musicology. Oxford, England: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-61733-2.
- Strohm, Reinhard (2005). The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61934-9.
- Journals and articles
- (1973). "The Development of French Secular Music during the Fourteenth Century". Musica Disciplina. 27: 41–59. JSTOR 20532157.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- Planchart, Alejandro (1993). "The Early Career of Guillaume Du Fay". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 46 (3): 341–368. doi:10.2307/831925. JSTOR 831925.
- Reaney, Gilbert (2001). "Loqueville, Richard". Grove Music Online. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.16976. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Further reading[]
- Dannemann, Erna (1973) [1936]. Die spätgotische Musiktradition in Frankreich und Burgund vor dem Aufreten Dufays (in German) (Reprint ed.). Valentin Koerner. ISBN 978-3-87320-522-2.
External links[]
- List of compositions by Richard Loqueville at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- Works by Richard Loqueville in the Medieval Music Database from La Trobe University
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