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    Johannes Gallicus was a 15th century French humanist and music theorist who was active in Italy. He studied under the renowned educator Vittorino da Feltre in Mantua and later became a Carthusian monk. Gallicus wrote three treatises on music between 1458-1464 that discussed ancient and new styles of singing, proportions, and the division of the monochord. Through his work, Gallicus established himself as the first 15th century musician to demonstrate Renaissance attitudes by pointing out differences between ancient Greek modes and those of his time. He was influential in transforming the study of Boethius from the medieval Quadrivium to a humanistic recovery of ancient thought.

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    Johannes Gallicus was a 15th century French humanist and music theorist who was active in Italy. He studied under the renowned educator Vittorino da Feltre in Mantua and later became a Carthusian monk. Gallicus wrote three treatises on music between 1458-1464 that discussed ancient and new styles of singing, proportions, and the division of the monochord. Through his work, Gallicus established himself as the first 15th century musician to demonstrate Renaissance attitudes by pointing out differences between ancient Greek modes and those of his time. He was influential in transforming the study of Boethius from the medieval Quadrivium to a humanistic recovery of ancient thought.

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    Gallicus [Carthusiensis, Legiensis,


    Mantuanus], Johannes
    (b Namur, c1415; d Parma, 1473). French humanist and theorist, active in Italy. He
    wrote that he was born at Namur and learnt to sing there, but studied formally under
    the celebrated educator Vittorino da Feltre (1378–1446) at Mantua, where he later
    became a Carthusian monk. His primary treatise was written during the pontificate
    of Pius II (1458–64). One of the manuscripts is in the hand of his pupil Nicolaus
    Burtius, who recorded his date of death as 1473. Hothby, who stated that they had
    been students together at the University of Pavia, referred to the theorist as
    ‘Johannem Legiensem’ (Legiensis, ‘of Liége’), which was misread by Seay as
    ‘Legrensem’; Seay mistakenly inferred a family name ‘Legrense’, which has
    become widespread in scholarly writings. Hieronymus de Moravia used the name
    ‘Johannes Gallicus’ to refer to Johannes de Garlandia.
    Gallicus's three treatises begin ‘Praefatio libelli musicalis de ritu canendi
    vetustissimo et novo’ (CoussemakerS, iv, 298–396; ed. in Seay), ‘Praefationcula in
    tam admirabilem quam tacitam et quietissimam novorum
    concinetiam’ (CoussemakerS, iv, 396–409) and ‘Tacita nunc inchoatur
    stupendaque numerorum musica’ (CoussemakerS, iv, 409–21). The first survives in
    GB-Lbl Add.22315, ff.1–60 and Harl.6525, ff.1–76v, the others only in Harl.6525,
    ff.77–96. Coussemaker, however, made them appear to be one continuous work by
    taking the obituary from f.60 of Add.22315 and placing it after the material
    transcribed from Harl.6525 (ff.77–96). The first part of the largest treatise,
    comparing the old and the new, covers the materials of music, proportions, the
    division of the monochord and the genera. Its second part, an introduction to
    singing, explains the modes and psalm tones, solmization and counterpoint; an
    interesting part of this section is concerned with secular music. The second treatise
    is taken up with arithmetic, while the third discusses musical proportions with
    reference to Aristides Quintilianus; Seay doubted whether they were actually by
    Gallicus.
    Through random remarks advocating a return to the ideals of an earlier era,
    Gallicus established himself as the first 15th-century musician to demonstrate the
    attitudes of the Renaissance. He realized that Boethius had written about the music
    of late antiquity rather than contemporary music, and in particular he was the first
    writer to point out that the Greek modes and those of his own time were entirely
    different systems; in his hands the study of Boethius was transformed from part of
    the medieval Quadrivium into a humanistic recovery of ancient thought. These
    ideas are directly attributable to the influence of Vittorino da Feltre, whom he
    succeeded at Mantua and later at Parma. The spirit of humanism, introduced into
    music theory by Gallicus, inspired many of his successors whether they agreed with
    his opinions or not.
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    J. Hothby: Excitatio quaedam musicae artis per refutationem (MS, c1485, I-Fn; ed.
    in CSM, x 1964), 51
    C.D. Adkins: The Theory and Practice of the Monochord (diss., U. of Iowa, 1963)
    A. Seay, ed.: Johannes Gallicus: Ritus canendi (Colorado Springs, CO, 1981)
    C.V. Palisca: Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought (New Haven, CT,
    1985), 7, 280–83
    C.V. Palisca: ‘Boethius in the Renaissance’, Music Theory and its Sources:
    Antiquity and the Middle Ages: South Bend, IN, 1987, 259–80
    CECIL ADKINS/R

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