Jaques le Vinier (
fl.
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1240–60)
[L. A. Vigneras (1934), "Note sur Andrieu Contredit," ''Romanic Review'', 25, 380, states that the register of the Puy records his death in 1245.] was a
trouvère
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probably from the region around
Arras
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and associated with the trouvères of that city. He was a member of the
Puy d'Arras and wrote a ''
jeu parti
The ''jeu-parti'' (plural ''jeux-partis'', also known as ''parture'') is a genre of French lyric poetry composed between two ''trouvères''. It is a cognate of the Occitan partimen (also known as ''partia'' or ''joc partit''). In the classic typ ...
'' with
Andrieu Contredit. His ''
floruit
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'' dates are reconstructed on the basis of his reference to
Jehan Bretel in his ''
chanson d'amour'' ''De loial amour''. Besides ''chansons d'amour'', Jaques also wrote ''chansons'' dedicated to the
Virgin Mary
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under titles of Mary, mother of Jesus, various titles such as Perpetual virginity ...
. The main source preserving his work is the
Vatican Chansonnier. Jaques wrote original melodies for his Marian songs, while most such works by other trouvères were
contrafacta
In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". The earliest known examples of this "lyrical adaptation" date back to the 9th century in Gregor ...
of pre-existing music. The
plagal melodies, all in
bar form
Bar form (German: ''die Barform'' or ''der Bar'') is a musical form of the pattern AAB.
Original use
The term comes from the rigorous terminology of the Meistersinger guilds of the 15th to 18th century who used it to refer to their songs and the ...
, are simple, but include both
isometric or heterometric tunes. Jaques's complete œuvre comprises:
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It is doubtful whether this last one is Jaques's. Unlike his other Marian ''chansons'', it is a contrafactum of ''Lo clar tems vei brunezir'' by
Raimon Jordan.
References
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Karp, Theodore"Le Vinier, Jaques."''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Accessed 20 September 2008.
Notes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaques Le Vinier
Trouvères
1245 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Male classical composers