Jehan de Grieviler
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Jehan de Grieviler was an Artesian
cleric and trouvère
.
Jehan was probably born at Grévillers
near Arras
. A certain "Grieviler" is mentioned in the necrology (registre) of the Confrérie des jongleurs et des bourgeois d'Arras under 1254–5, but since Jehan was a known member of the Puy d'Arras
, he cannot be identified with the "Grieviler" of the necrology with any certainty. Probably he was one of the sixteen unordained married clerics who petitioned the Bishop of Arras on 28 January 1254 to exempt them from secular taxation. They were evidently involved in trade and commerce. A further piece of evidence for establishing his chronology are the songs he is known to have composed with Adam de la Halle
, who was very young in the 1250s.
Jehan participated in a total of thirty-four jeux partis, initiating six of the exchanges himself. Twenty-eight of these were with Jehan Bretel
. Three of these last have surviving melodies, probably composed by him. He also wrote six chansons courtoises, and a seventh attributed to Jehan de la Fontaine may be by him. He also composed one surviving rotrouenge
.
All of his melodies are conventional, save Uns pensers jolis, which is through-composed
, and Jolie amours qui m'a en sa baillie, which begins on B and ranges from high to low F.
Rotrouenges
Jeux partis with music probably by Grieviler
Jeux partis with Jehan Bretel
Arras
Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...
cleric and trouvère
Trouvère
Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...
.
Jehan was probably born at Grévillers
Grévillers
Grévillers is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:A farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D10 and three small roads.-Population:-Places of interest:...
near Arras
Arras
Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...
. A certain "Grieviler" is mentioned in the necrology (registre) of the Confrérie des jongleurs et des bourgeois d'Arras under 1254–5, but since Jehan was a known member of the Puy d'Arras
Puy d'Arras
The Puy d'Arras, called in its own day the Puy Notre-Dame, was a medieval poetical society formed in Arras for holding contests between trouvères and pour maintenir amour et joie . The term puy is Old French for "place of eminence", from Latin podium...
, he cannot be identified with the "Grieviler" of the necrology with any certainty. Probably he was one of the sixteen unordained married clerics who petitioned the Bishop of Arras on 28 January 1254 to exempt them from secular taxation. They were evidently involved in trade and commerce. A further piece of evidence for establishing his chronology are the songs he is known to have composed with Adam de la Halle
Adam de la Halle
Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis in the style of the trouveres, polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony, and a musical play, "The Play of...
, who was very young in the 1250s.
Jehan participated in a total of thirty-four jeux partis, initiating six of the exchanges himself. Twenty-eight of these were with Jehan Bretel
Jehan Bretel
Jehan Bretel was a trouvère. Of his known oeuvre of probably 97 songs, 96 have survived. Judging by his contacts with other trouvères he was famous and popular...
. Three of these last have surviving melodies, probably composed by him. He also wrote six chansons courtoises, and a seventh attributed to Jehan de la Fontaine may be by him. He also composed one surviving rotrouenge
Rotrouenge
In the Middle Ages, the rotrouenge or retroencha was a recognised type of lyric poetry, although no existing source defines the genre clearly. There are four conserved troubadour poems, all with refrains and three by Guiraut Riquier with music, that are labelled retronchas in the chansonniers...
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All of his melodies are conventional, save Uns pensers jolis, which is through-composed
Through-composed
Through-composed music is relatively continuous, non-sectional, and/or non-repetitive. A song is said to be through-composed if it has different music for each stanza of the lyrics. This is in contrast to strophic form, in which each stanza is set to the same music...
, and Jolie amours qui m'a en sa baillie, which begins on B and ranges from high to low F.
List of compositions
Chansons- Amours me fait de cuer joli chanter (attributed Jehan de la Fontaine)
- Entre raison et amour grant tourment
- Jolie amours qui m'a en sa baillie
- Jolis espoirs et amoureus desir
- Pour bone amour et ma dame honorer
- S'amours envoisie
- Uns pensers jolis
Rotrouenges
- Dolans, iriés, plains d'ardure
Jeux partis with music probably by Grieviler
- Cuvelier, un jugement
- Jehan Bretel, une jolie dame
- Jehan Bretel, votre avis
Jeux partis with Jehan Bretel
- Conseilliez moi, Jehan de Grieviler
- Grieviler, a ma requeste, no music
- Grieviler, del quel doit estre
- Grieviler, deus dames sai d'une beauté
- Grieviler, deus dames sont
- Grieviler, dites moi voir, no music
- Grieviler, feme avés prise
- Grieviler, ja en ma vie, no music
- Grieviler, par maintes fies
- Grieviler, par quel raison, no music
- Grieviler, par vo bapteme
- Grieviler, se vous aviés
- Grieviler, se vous quidiés
- Grieviler, s'il avenoit, no music
- Grieviler, un jugement
- Grieviler, vostre ensient, two melodies
- Grieviler, vostre pensee
- Jehan de Grieviler, deus dames sai, no music
- Jehan de Grieviler, sage
- Jehan de Grieviler, s'aveuc celi, no music
- Jehan de Grieviler, une
- Jehan de Grieviler, un jugement, no music
- Prince del Pui, mout bien savés trouver, proposed by Grieviler
- Respondés a ma demande, two melodies
- Sire Bretel, je vous vueill demander, proposed by Grieviler, no music
- Sire Bretel, vous qui d'amours savez, proposed by Grieviler, no music