Jehannot de l’Escurel

Jehannot de l’Escurel was a poet and composer active in early fourteenth century Paris. Small is well known about his lifestyle; some authors recognize him using a Notre Dame cleric from the same name who was simply hanged for debauchery in 1304. His just surviving works certainly are a group of 34 compositions within a uncommon manuscript from the “Roman de Fauvel,” which stick to the formes fixes of rondeau, virelai, and ballade. The music within this collection are monophonic, apart from the three-voice rondeau “A vous douce debonnaire.” The collection also includes two poems whose strophes conclude using a refrain established to a notated melody. Scholars possess observed which the works within this collection come in alphabetical purchase and end using the notice “G,” indicating that they could only represent some of his comprehensive output. l’Escurel’s functions are significant for the reason that they type the biggest body of music out of this period where the rhythmic durations are notated, a practice that could completely develop over following generations, specifically in the functions of Guillaume de Machaut.