Pierre Aubry (14 February 1874 in Paris – 31 August 1910 in Dieppe) was a French musicologist (according to professor of music and medieval studies, John Haines, Aubry was the first to use the term musicologie.[1]) who specialized in secular monophony, musical palaeography and the music of the 13th century.
He is particularly known for applying the modal rhythms of Franconian theory to the repertoire trouvère and troubadour songs. The Alsatian scholar Johann-Baptist (later Jean-Baptist) Beck claimed plagiarism and Aubry called for a trial, which resulted in a judgment in Beck's favor. Aubry's premature death by suicide was shrouded in rumors of a duel, Beck himself believing the fatal stab wound was an accident while practicing for combat.[2]
Selected publications
Les Proses d'Adam de Saint-Victor. Paris: H. Welter. 1900. (with Abbé E. Misset, about Adam of Saint Victor)
Lais et descorts français du xiiie siècle] (1901)
Souvenir d'une mission d'études musicales en Arménie (1902)
Au Turkestan: note sur quelques habitudes musicales chez les Tadjiks et chez les Sartes (1905)
Trouvères et troubadours] (1909, English translation 1914)
Le chansonnier de l'Arsenal (1910, with A. Jeanroy)
References
^Haines, John (2004). Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music. Musical Performance and Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 155.
^Haines, John (2001). "The Footnote Quarrels of the Modal Theory: A Remarkable Episode in the Reception of Medieval Music". Early Music History. 20: 87–120. doi:10.1017/S0261127901001024. S2CID 192007308.
Further reading
Haines, John. "The 'Modal Theory', Fencing, and the Death of Pierre Aubry". Plainsong and Medieval Music6 (1997): 143–150.
External links
Cent motets du XIIIe siècle publiés d'après le manuscrit Ed. IV. 6 de Bamberg par Pierre Aubry. I. Reproduction phototypique du manuscrit original
Cent motets du XIIIe siècle publiés d'après le manuscrit Ed. IV. 6 de Bamberg par Pierre Aubry. II. Transcription en notation moderne et mise en partition
Huit chants héroïques de l'ancienne France, XIIe–XVIIIe siècles; poems et musique recueillis et publiés avec notices historiques
Lais et descorts français du XIIIe siècle with Alfred Jeanroy
Trouvères and troubadours, a popular treatise
La rythmique musicale des troubadours et des trouvères
Les plus anciens monuments de la musique française