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JACOB DE SENLECHES
(fl. 1378–95). French composer and harpist, represented in the Chantilly codex by four
complex Ars Subtilior songs. Jacob spent a number of years at the court of Aragon and
Castile. In 1383, he appears at Navarre, a harpist in the service of Cardinal Pedro de
Luna, the future Pope Benedict XIII. His complex and virtuosic virelai Harpe de melodie,
notated in one manuscript in the shape of a harp, features irregular canonic imitation in
the upper voices. Performance instructions call for the singer to accompany himself on
the harp.
Benjamin Garber
[See also: ARS SUBTILIOR; COMPOSERS, MINOR (14TH CENTURY)]
Strohm, Reinhard. “La harpe de mélodie oder Das Kunstwerkals Akt der Zueignung.” In Das
musikalische Kunstwerk: Geschichte, Asthetik, Theorie: Festschrift Carl Dahlhaus zum 60.
Geburtstag, ed. H.Danuser et al. Laaber: Laaber, 1988, pp. 305–16.
Tomasello, Andrew. Music and Ritual at Papal Avignon, 1309–1403. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1983.
JACQUEMART GIELÉE
(fl. late 13th c.). Author of Renart le nouvel, a virulent anticlerical poem (7,862 lines; ca.
1289). Using the characters popularized by the Roman de Renart, the Lillois Jacquemart
composed an essentially symbolic work in which Renart, as the personification of Satan,
seduces humankind through appeals to pride, lust, and gluttony. The secular and regular
clergy—and even the mendicant orders—are castigated in traditional terms drawn largely
from Huon de Méry’s Tournoiement Antéchrist.
William W.Kibler
[See also: HUON DE MÉRY; RENART, ROMAN DE]
Jacquemart Gielée. Renart le nouvel par Jacquemart Gielée, ed. Henri Roussel. Paris: Didot, 1961.
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