Pierre Aubry
Illustration — Pierre Aubry Pierre Aubry (14 February 1874 in Paris – 31 August 1910 in Dieppe) was a French musicologist (according to professor of music and medieval studies, John Haines, Aubry was the first to use the term musicologie.) who specialized in secular monophony, musical palaeography and the music of the 13th century. He is particularly known for applying the modal rhythms of Franconian theory to the repertoire trouvère and troubadour songs. The Alsatian scholar Johann-Baptist (later Jean-Baptist) Beck claimed plagiarism and Aubry called for a trial, which resulted in a judgment in Beck's favor.
Pierre Aubry
Pierre Aubry · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1874 · Paris.
- Died
- 1910 · Dieppe.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- musicologist · archivist · musician
- Education
- École des chartes
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Pierre Aubry Pierre Aubry (14 February 1874 in Paris – 31 August 1910 in Dieppe) was a French musicologist (according to professor of music and medieval studies, John Haines, Aubry was the first to use the term musicologie.) who specialized in secular monophony, musical palaeography and the music of the 13th century. He is particularly known for applying the modal rhythms of Franconian theory to the repertoire trouvère and troubadour songs. The Alsatian scholar Johann-Baptist (later Jean-Baptist) Beck claimed plagiarism and Aubry called for a trial, which resulted in a judgment in Beck's favor.
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Aubry's premature death by suicide was shrouded in rumors of a duel, Beck himself believing the fatal stab wound was an accident while practicing for combat.
• Illustration — Monodie vocale accompagnée et monodie instrumentale (1896-1910). • (with Abbé E. Misset, about Adam of Saint Victor) • Lais et descorts français du xiiie siècle] (1901) • Souvenir d'une mission d'études musicales en Arménie (1902) • Au Turkestan: note sur quelques habitudes musicales chez les Tadjiks et chez les Sartes (1905) • Un "explicit" en musique du roman de Fauvel (1906) • Le roman de Fauvel: reproduction photographique du manuscrit français 146 de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (1907) • Cent motets du XIIIe siècle, publiés d'après le manuscrit Ed.IV.6 de Bamberg (1908) • Trouvères et troubadours] (1909, English translation 1914) • Le chansonnier de l'Arsenal (1910, with A. Jeanroy)
Adolphus Vorstius. Line engraving by P. Aubry after G. Petri., 1600-1699, by Pierre Aubry
Pierre Aubry · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
![Thomas Plater [Platter] II. Line engraving by P. Aubry., 1600-1699, by Pierre Aubry](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0004695/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
Thomas Plater [Platter] II. Line engraving by P. Aubry., 1600-1699, by Pierre Aubry
Pierre Aubry · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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- 1.Haines, John. Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music. Cambridge University Press. 155. 2004.
- 2.Haines, John. The Footnote Quarrels of the Modal Theory: A Remarkable Episode in the Reception of Medieval Music. Early Music History. 20. 87–120. 2001. 10.1017/S0261127901001024.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Haines, John. "The 'Modal Theory', Fencing, and the Death of Pierre Aubry". Plainsong and Medieval Music 6 (1997): 143–150.
- Peter Sühring, Der Rhythmus der Trobadors. Zur Archäologie einer Interpretationsgeschichte, Berlin 2003.
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