Johannes Tinctoris

Johannes Tinctoris (born in 1435, deceased in 1511) was a Compositeur which one should regard as Flemish only because of the name of the school known as free-Flemish École. If not it is a musician Wallon and a theorist of the music of the Renaissance. Léopold Genicot likes to stress that it also inaugurated in art to include/understand the music: us revoilà in the music, which remained great Walloon art . The Hainuyers continued to order the evolution of it as a long time as the Polyphonie kept the favor. Dufay had equipped it with the unit mass, built on only one topic. Tinctoris, canon of Bubbles, devoted twelve treaties to him, of which the Terminorum musicae definitiorum , ancestor of the musical dictionaries.

It is proven that it made its studies with Orleans, while being Master of pulpit. He was also probably Master of pulpit with Chartres. As it was employed with the cathedral of Cambrai during four months (in 1460), one speculated in the fact that it studied with Guillaume Dufay, which passed the last part of its life in this city. Even if these speculations are not easily verifiable, it is about certain that Tinctoris met the senior of the Burgundian school. Tinctoris left to Naples in 1472. It passed most of the end of its life in Italy.

Also a musicologist

Tinctoris wrote many dedicated works with the writing of the music. Even if its work does not shine by their originality (Tinctoris is strongly inspired by writers having preceded it, like Boethius, Isidore of Seville or others), they draw up us instantaneous very detailed techniques and procedures used by the type-setters of the time. He wrote the first dictionary of the musical terms ( Diffinitorium musices ); a work on the characteristics of the modes of music; as well as a treaty on the proportions; and a book devoted to the counterpoint, particularly useful during this period hinge between Guillaume Dufay and Josquin Of the Meadows, where the internal counterpoints ( voice leading in English) and the harmonies develop. Here how Robert Wangermée clarifies the position of Tinctoris at the same time like musicvien and theorist: Johannes Tinctoris (originating in Bubbles) which lived at the court of King Ferdinand d' Aragon with Naples wrote important treaties of " music pratique" In XVe and XVIe centuries, all the musical compositions were controls by the laws of the Contrepoint, but those knew alternatives according to the times. For Ockeghem and Tinctoris, the counterpoint was a primarily horizontal writing where each voice was perceived like independent of the autres.

The writings of Tinctoris influenced the type-setters and the other theorists of the music of the Rebirth. Like the majority of the intellectuals of the Rebirth, Tinctoris was interested in all the fields of knowledge. It was known as clerk, poet, mathematician, and like man of law; a source describes it even like an accomplished painter.

Writings

the first dictionary of the musical terms ( Diffinitorum musices ).
a talk on the rhythmic Notation and the height ( Exposito manus and Proportionale musices ).
a detailed presentation of the modal system ( Liber of will natura and proprietate tonorum ).
Liber of art contrapuncti - Its major presentation concerning the intervals, the consonance and the Dissonance.
It devoted a broad study devoted at the origin of the music, its evolutions, its roots and its ramifications at the same time theological and Métaphysique S, while being delayed on the instrumental and vocal practice. ( Of inventione and usu musice ).

Complementary references and readings

Heinrich Hüschen, Article " Johannes Tinctoris, " in The New Grove Dictionary off Music and Musicians , ED. Stanley Sadie. 20 volumes, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London, 1980. ISBN 1561591742
Gustave Reese, Article Music in the Rebirth , W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1954. ISBN 0393095304

External bonds

- Bibliography devoted to Johannes Tinctoris
- The non-profit-making association (ASBL) (located with Liege), Musique in Wallonia regards it as one of the Walloon representatives most interesting of this music of the rebirth which was going so deeply to influence Europe later on. She proposes to make knowledge with her work.

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