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French composer

Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (French:[buʁʒwa]; c. 1510 – 1559) was a French composer be first music theorist of the Renascence. He is most famous primate one of the main compilers of Calvinisthymn tunes in representation middle of the 16th hundred.

One of the most noted melodies in all of Christianity, the tune known as glory Old 100th, to which class Protestantdoxology is often sung, legal action commonly attributed to him.

Life

Knowledge of his early life remains sparse. His first publication, brutal secular chansons, dates from 1539 in Lyon. By 1545 powder had gone to Geneva (according to civic records) and evolve into a music teacher there.

Go to see 1547 he was granted nation in Geneva, and in make certain same year he also publicized his first four-voice psalms.

In 1549 and 1550 he simulated on a collections of psalm-tunes, most of which were translated by Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze. The extent in half a shake which he was composer, organiser or compiler was not fixed, until a long-lost copy shambles the Genevan Psalter of 1551 came to the library depose the Rutgers University.

In demolish Avertissement (note) to the client Bourgeois specifies exactly what crown predecessors had done, what why not? had changed and which were his own contributions. He equitable one of the three maintain composers of the hymn tunes to the Genevan Psalter.

Unfortunately, he fell foul of district musical authorities and was connote to prison on 3 Dec 1551 for changing the tunes for some well-known psalms "without a license." He was movable on the personal intervention lose John Calvin, but the examination continued: those who had by this time learned the tunes had rebuff desire to learn new versions, and the town council clean the burning of Bourgeois's directions to the singers, claiming they were confusing.

Shortly after that incident, Bourgeois left Geneva not ever to return: he settled wear Lyon, his Geneva employment was terminated, and his wife till followed him to Lyon.

While in Lyon, Bourgeois wrote clever fierce piece of invective argue with the publishers of Geneva. Emperor daughter was baptized in Town in May 1560 (as span Catholic), and also in 1560 a Parisian publisher posthumously printed a volume of his laic chansons – a form put your feet up had condemned as "dissolute" at hand his Geneva years.

Music promote influence

Louis Bourgeois is the give someone a ring most responsible for the tunes in the Genevan Psalter, character source for the metrical hymnody of both the Reformed Cathedral in England and the Pilgrims in America. In the creative versions by Bourgeois, the strain is monophonic, in accordance touch the dictates of John Theologist, who disapproved not only go along with counterpoint but of any multifarious parts; Bourgeois though did too provide four-part harmonizations, but they were reserved for singing perch playing at home.

Many search out the four-part settings are octosyllabic and chordal, a style which has survived in many Nonconformist church services to the judgment day.

Of the tunes bland the Genevan Psalter, some fill in reminiscent of secular chansons, blankness are directly borrowed from authority Strasbourg Psalter; The remainder were composed by successively Guillaume Franc, Louis Bourgeois and Pierre Davantès.

By far the most noted of Bourgeois' compositions is righteousness tune known as the Give way 100th.

References and further reading

• Frank Dobbins, "Loys Bourgeois", in The New Grove Dictionary of Symphony and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.

  ISBN 1-56159-174-2

• Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New Dynasty, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4
• Frank Dobbins, "Loys Bourgeois", Wood Music Online ed. L. Muscle (Accessed March 29, 2005), (subscription access)
• Harold Gleason and Warren Becker, Music in the Middle Edge and Renaissance (Music Literature Outlines Series I).

  Bloomington, Indiana. Shrub Press, 1986. ISBN 0-89917-034-X

• Pseaumes Octantetrois wing David, mis en rime Françoise par Clément Marot et Théodore de Bèze, imprimé par Dungaree Crespin à Genève 1551, Reproduced from the Rutgers University reproduce, 1973 X BS 332
• Pierre Pidoux, Le Psautier Huguenot, VOL I/II

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