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Olivier Bettens, virga.org
Francis Maréchal, Fondation Royaumont
Gisèle Clément, CIMM – Montpellier
Arnaud Pignol, Avignon Tourisme (Palais des Papes)
António Augusto Aguiar, ESMAE de Porto
Dr. Martin Kirnbauer, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Géry Moutier, CNSMD – Lyon
Manuel Pedro Ferreira, CESEM Lisbon
Sabine Rommevaux-Tani, CNRS – SPHERE
Christian Lange, Klemm Music Technology
Date de début: 2018
Singing the motets of Philippe de Vitry, a major cultural figure in the 14th century, still poses a unique challenge today. His musical oeuvre, featuring twenty motets whose authorship is disputed, is difficult to access, both with respect to the search for historical sources (more than a hundred at present, spread among thirty European libraries) and to the reading of them (damage to manuscripts, alterations caused by foxing, mistakes by those who copied down the music).
These difficulties appeared to have been solved by a transcription of fourteen motets that appeared in 1956, published by Éditions de l’Oiseau-Lyre - a project led by the musicologist Leo Schrade. Indeed, this transcription has served, and still serves today, as the resource used at virtually all public performances and recordings. Yet, for all that, it does not meet the current requirements of historically informed musical practice: the sources are not mentioned, the poems are neither written out nor translated, the editorial choices and additions are neither commented on nor justified, and the publisher did not take into account the techniques that constituted the ‘science of singing’ in the 14th century: solmization, single descant and ‘Fiori musicali’.
This applied research project has the aim of filling in these gaps with artistic and scientific work on the original sources, by proposing: