Philippe of Vitry
The prelate and Compositeur French Philippe of Vitry was born with Vitry the October 31st 1291, and died in Meaux the June 9th 1361.
Biography
Philippe of Vitry, bishop of Meaux, regarded by his contemporaries as a spirit shining, rented for his Mathematical knowledge in , Philosophy, Poetry, Rhetoric and Music, was an emblematic figure of the Moyen-âge. Although its musical compositions - except some Motet S - disappeared, its treaties of music could reach us.
Towards 1320, it published its famous treaty Ars Nova , in which it proposed a musical Notation innovative, using unknown signs. He encouraged the use of new rules of composition, in particular of rhythmic arrangements innovative, which allowed the emergence of a polyphonic style more harmonious and less depend on the constraints of the liturgical art, the Ars antiqua .
Its Musique was thus dissociated from that of Pérotin (v. 1160 - v. 1230) and its influence, which will perdura more than one century after its death, is recognized, for example, in the works of Guillaume de Machaut (v. 1300 - 1377) or of Guillaume Dufay (v. 1400 - 1474).
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