Robert de Reins La Chievre
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Robert de Reins La Chievre was a trouvère
from the Île de France, probably active in the thirteenth century. He is among those few trouvères, like Richart de Fournival, who are associated with the early development of the motet
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He may have belonged to the La Chievre family documented in Rheims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Roman de Renart attributed a poem about Tristan
to a certain Chievre de Reins, who may be Robert. This attribution led Wilhelm Mann to conclude that he was active before 1300, though other scholars have argued on linguistic grounds that he must have been writing later.
Nine songs are attributed to Robert. Three of these—Main s'est levée Aelis, Quant feuillisent li buisson, and Quant voi le dous tens venir—are definitely motets and another, L'autrier de jouste un rivage, is like a motet minus a tenor
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Motets
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...
from the Île de France, probably active in the thirteenth century. He is among those few trouvères, like Richart de Fournival, who are associated with the early development of the motet
Motet
In classical music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.-Etymology:The name comes either from the Latin movere, or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is motectum, and the Italian...
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He may have belonged to the La Chievre family documented in Rheims in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Roman de Renart attributed a poem about Tristan
Tristan
Tristan is one of the main characters of the Tristan and Iseult story, a Cornish hero and one of the Knights of the Round Table featuring in the Matter of Britain...
to a certain Chievre de Reins, who may be Robert. This attribution led Wilhelm Mann to conclude that he was active before 1300, though other scholars have argued on linguistic grounds that he must have been writing later.
Nine songs are attributed to Robert. Three of these—Main s'est levée Aelis, Quant feuillisent li buisson, and Quant voi le dous tens venir—are definitely motets and another, L'autrier de jouste un rivage, is like a motet minus a tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
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List of works
- Bergier (Tous) de vile champestre
- Bien s'est amours honie
- Jamais pour tant con l'ame el cors me bate
- Plaindre m'estuet de la bele en chantant
- Qui bien veut amours descrivre
Motets
- L'autrier de jouste un rivage
- Main s'est levée Aelis
- Quant feuillisent li buisson
- Quant voi le dous tens venir / En moi, quant rose est florie