Medieval France
(fl. mid-14th c.). Music theorist named as the author of De motettis componendis, which gives some simple precepts for the composition of isorhythmic motets. One source names him as the author of the Tractatus de diversis figuris, elsewhere ascribed to Philippus de Caserta.
He is praised as a theorist along with Philippe de Vitry and Jehan des Murs in two 14th-century motets that enumerate names of musicians in their texts, Musicalis scientia/Scientie laudabili and Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis. He may be identifiable with the composer Egidius named in the Chantilly codex (ca. 1400) or with a number of other musicians of the same name.
Benjamin Garber
[See also: COMPOSERS, MINOR (14th CENTURY); ISORHYTHMIC MOTET; MUSIC THEORY; PHILIPPE DE VITRY; PHILIPPUS DE CASERTA]
Leech-Wilkinson, Daniel. Compositional Techniques in the Four-Part Isorhythmic Motets of Philippe de Vitry and His Contemporaries. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1989.
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