Surname
Cambrai (de)
Given Name
Henri ?
Variant Name
Cameraco
Cameracy
Place of birth
Cambrai
Role
Composer (no known polyphonic works preserved)
Musician
Active period
1415 - 1428
Workplace
Soignies
Institution
Collégiale Saint-Vincent de Soignies
Biography
Cameraco [Cameracy]
(fl c1400–1428). Composer, possibly French. Though he could be the Johannes de Comeriaco at the papal chapel in 1417 (Haberl), he is far more likely to be the Henry de Cambray documented at St Vincent, Soignies, as a ‘bas vicaire’ in 1415–28 (Mons, Archives de l’Etat, Chapitre de Soignies: vols.148–50, 153–5 and 506). The rondeau Belle voliés, ascribed ‘Cameracy’ in the lost Strasbourg manuscript (F-Sm 222), resembles the songs of his sometime Soignies colleague Johannes Legrant; the Credo ascribed ‘Cameraco’ in Strasbourg (where it is incomplete, though it is complete but without ascription in I-Bc Q15) is very much in the manner of the northern French composers, with its declamatory style and heavy use of fauxbourdon-like textures.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F.X. Haberl: Bausteine für Musikgeschichte, i (Leipzig, 1885/R), 56
D. Fallows: A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415–1480 (Oxford, 1999)
DAVID FALLOWS
(fl c1400–1428). Composer, possibly French. Though he could be the Johannes de Comeriaco at the papal chapel in 1417 (Haberl), he is far more likely to be the Henry de Cambray documented at St Vincent, Soignies, as a ‘bas vicaire’ in 1415–28 (Mons, Archives de l’Etat, Chapitre de Soignies: vols.148–50, 153–5 and 506). The rondeau Belle voliés, ascribed ‘Cameracy’ in the lost Strasbourg manuscript (F-Sm 222), resembles the songs of his sometime Soignies colleague Johannes Legrant; the Credo ascribed ‘Cameraco’ in Strasbourg (where it is incomplete, though it is complete but without ascription in I-Bc Q15) is very much in the manner of the northern French composers, with its declamatory style and heavy use of fauxbourdon-like textures.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F.X. Haberl: Bausteine für Musikgeschichte, i (Leipzig, 1885/R), 56
D. Fallows: A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415–1480 (Oxford, 1999)
DAVID FALLOWS
Bibliography
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