Gregoire (flourished c.1500-1504) was a

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

Scholarship on Gregoire

Gregoire is known only through his publications by the music publisher Ottaviano Petrucci. While biographical content about Gregoire is not known, scholars are fairly certain he was French both because of his name and the style of the music he composed. His

motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to the Eng ...

''Ave verum corpus/Ecce panis angelorum/Bone pastor/O salutaris hostia'' was published in ''Motetti B'' (1503). The work combines the well known

Eucharistic The Eucharist ( ; from , ), also called Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament or the Lord's Supper, is a Christianity, Christian Rite (Christianity), rite, considered a sacrament in most churches and an Ordinance (Christianity), ordinance in ...

chant A chant (from French ', from Latin ', "to sing") is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones. Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of no ...

Ave verum corpus is a short Eucharistic chant that has been set to music by many composers. It dates to the 13th century, first recorded in a central Italian Franciscan manuscript (Chicago, Newberry Library, 24). A Reichenau manuscript of the 14th century attri ...

" with three chants associated with the Feast of Corpus Christi that are found in the '' Lauda Sion Salvatorem'' and '' Verbum supernum prodiens''. Gregoire weaves these chants together into a

polyphonic Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice ( monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords ...

choral texture; making them work together through transposition and paraphrase. Gregoire composed only one other known work, the four-part choral

chanson A (, ; , ) is generally any Lyrics, lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval music, medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of ...

"Et raira plus la lune" which was published in Petrucci's ''Canti C''. This work is written in the French manner of the

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in a vein similar to that of composers Ninot le Petit and Antoine Bruhier.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregoire French Renaissance composers French male classical composers 15th-century births 16th-century deaths Year of birth missing Year of death missing