Jacques Buus (also Jakob Buus) (c. 1500 – late August, 1565) was a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance, and an early member of the Venetian School. In Music, the Franco-Flemish School refers somewhat imprecisely to the style of polyphonic Vocal music composition in Europe in the 15th The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon "organ instrument tool" is a Keyboard instrument of one or more divisions each Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600 In music history the Venetian School is a term used to describe the Composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610; it also describes He was one of the earliest composers of the ricercar, the predecessor to the fugue, and he was also a skilled composer of chansons. A ricercar (or ricercare recercar; the terms are interchangeable is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition In Music, a fugue (ˈfjuːg is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred A chanson ( French for " Song " from Latin cantio) is in general any lyric -driven French songs usually Polyphonic
Life
Buus was probably born in Ghent around 1500, though details of his early life, as is the case with most Renaissance composers, are scanty. Ghent (ˈɡɛnt Gent ʝɛnt in Dutch, Gand in French, and formerly Gaunt in English) is a City and a Possibly he either studied or had his early career in France, and he maintained some connections there throughout his life. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. In 1538 he published his first chansons, in Lyon by the printer Jacques Moderne. ||-||} Lyon, also known as Lyons in English is a city in east-central France.
Three years later he went to Venice and auditioned for the post of second organist at St. Mark's, winning the job, and working alongside the existing organist, Frate Giovanni Armonio. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Saint Mark's Basilica ( Italian: Basilica di San Marco a Venezia) the Cathedral of Venice, is the most famous of This was during the tenure of Adrian Willaert, who built the musical forces at St. Adrian Willaert (c 1490 &ndash 7 December 1562 was a Flemish Composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School. Mark's into one of the most impressive in Europe, second only in quality to the papal chapel in Rome. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Buus stayed at St. Mark's until 1550, when he departed for France, ostensibly because he was unable to pay his debts; however it has been suggested that he left because he had become a Protestant. The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time In 1543 he had dedicated a volume of chansons to the Calvinist Duchess of Ferrara, and in 1550 he sent a book of Protestant chansons spirituelles to the Protestant Archduke Ferdinand II in Vienna. Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. Ferdinand II Archduke of Further Austria ( Linz, June 14, 1529 &ndash January 24, 1595) was ruler of Further Austria Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Late in 1550 he went to Vienna to work at the Habsburg court, and he remained there for the rest of his life, ignoring entreaties from Venice to return.
Music and influence
Buus was influential in the development of the instrumental ricercar; he wrote the longest ever composed, one of which has no less than 98 points of imitation. A ricercar (or ricercare recercar; the terms are interchangeable is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition Another has 358 breves (equivalent to 716 bars of 4/4; the typical tactus of the time allotted 60 to 80 minims, i. Length The breve sign indicates a short vowel as opposed to the Macron ¯ which indicates long vowels in academic transcription Meter or metre is a concept related to an underlying division of time characteristic of western music In Music, a pulse or tactus is beat (a series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in Time e. half-notes, to the minute). They are elaborately contrapuntal, making use of all the standard devices of Franco-Flemish polyphony, including augmentation, diminution, inversion, and so forth. In Music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and Rhythm, and interdependent in Harmony In Music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent Melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice ( Monophony
He also wrote sacred vocal music, including motets and chansons spirituelles, a specifically Protestant form, although these were not for performance in Catholic Venice. In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions The motets are similar in style to those of Nicolas Gombert, with dense textures, pervasive imitation, and free treatment of the source material. Nicolas Gombert (c 1495 &ndash c 1560 was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
References and further reading
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. , 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
- Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. Gustave Reese ( November 29 1899, New York City – – September 7 1977, Berkeley California) was an American New York, W. W. Norton & Co. , 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4
- Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5
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