Surname
Carlier
Given Name
Jacques
Active period
circa 1490 - circa 1490
Biography
Étant donné la fréquence du nom, son lien avec le doyen de Cambrai Gilles Carlier ou avec le compositeur “Jacques Carlier” dont le nom est ajouté dans la copie gantoise tardive du Complexus effectuum musices (cf NG2), reste des plus hypothétiques. (Strohm-Cullington 1996)
• NG
Carlerii [Carleri, Carlier], Jacobus (d ?Bruges, between 6 Sept 1457 and 23 Aug 1458). South Netherlandish composer. Although no music survives under his name, he is mentioned in one later source (B-Gu 70, 1504) of Tinctoris's Complexus effectuum musices (edn in On the Dignity and Effects of Music, ed. R. Strohm and J.D. Cullington, London, 1996) as being famous throughout Europe alongside the composers Dunstaple, Binchois, Du Fay, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Regis, Caron, Morton and Obrecht. He was ordained a priest between 1453 and 1457, and appeared in the records of the church of Our Lady in Bruges as singer, vicar, chaplain at the altar of St Mary Magdalene, and later chaplain at the altar of the Virgin. He may be identifiable with Jaquemyn Carlier, a singer from the church of Our Lady named in the city accounts of Ghent in 1452–3.
DANIEL LIEVOIS
Carlerius, Egidius [Carlier, Gilles; Charlier, Gilles] (b Cambrai, c1400; d Paris, 23 Nov 1472). French theologian, theorist and poet. After studying and teaching in Paris until 1432, he acquired a reputation at the Council of Basle for his disputations with the Hussites. The council deputed him to Bohemia in 1433, and in 1434 he was sent to the court of Charles VII of France in an effort to end the Hundred Years War. In 1436 (1431 according to Fétis) he was appointed dean of Cambrai Cathedral, an office he held to the end of his life. From the 1450s he divided his attentions between Cambrai and the Collège de Navarre, Paris. He produced numerous theological, devotional and controversial writings, some of which were posthumously published in Sporta fragmentorum and Sportula fragmentorum (Brussels, 1478–9). The latter volume contains his Tractatus de duplici ritu cantus ecclesiastici in divinis officiis (ed. in Strohm and Cullington). The treatise, probably written late in Carlerius’s life, is a defence of the singing of polyphony in the divine service, citing classical, biblical and patristic writers on the value and effects of music. Tinctoris’s Complexus effectuum musices (c1472–5) depends to some extent on Carlerius’s treatise for content and language. In 1457–8 Carlerius composed the texts for a new Marian office, the Recollectio festorum Beate Marie Virginis, introduced at Cambrai Cathedral and sung throughout the Low Countries and in Savoy; they were set to plainchant by Du Fay.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FétisB
EitnerQ
J. Toussaint: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, ed. A. Baudrillet, xi (Paris, 1949), cols. 1046–50
Z. Kałuża: ‘Matériaux et remarques sur le catalogue des oeuvres de Gilles Charlier’, Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age, xxxvi (1969), 169–81
A. Seay: Introduction to Egidius Carlerius: Duo tractatuli de musica (Colorado Springs, CO, 1977); see also review by R. Woodley, ML, lx (1979), 357–8
J.-P. Lobies, ed.: Index bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum, xxxii (Osnabruck, 1984), 2229 [addl bibliography]
B. Haggh: ‘The Celebration of the “Recollectio Festorum Beatae Mariae Virginis”, 1457–1987’, IMSCR XIV: Bologna 1987, iii, 559–71
R. Strohm and J.D. Cullington, eds. and trans.: Egidius Carlerius, Johannes Tinctoris: On the Dignity and the Effects of Music: Two Fifteenth-Century Treatises (London, 1996) [Introduction by Strohm]
BARBARA H. HAGGH
• NG
Carlerii [Carleri, Carlier], Jacobus (d ?Bruges, between 6 Sept 1457 and 23 Aug 1458). South Netherlandish composer. Although no music survives under his name, he is mentioned in one later source (B-Gu 70, 1504) of Tinctoris's Complexus effectuum musices (edn in On the Dignity and Effects of Music, ed. R. Strohm and J.D. Cullington, London, 1996) as being famous throughout Europe alongside the composers Dunstaple, Binchois, Du Fay, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Regis, Caron, Morton and Obrecht. He was ordained a priest between 1453 and 1457, and appeared in the records of the church of Our Lady in Bruges as singer, vicar, chaplain at the altar of St Mary Magdalene, and later chaplain at the altar of the Virgin. He may be identifiable with Jaquemyn Carlier, a singer from the church of Our Lady named in the city accounts of Ghent in 1452–3.
DANIEL LIEVOIS
Carlerius, Egidius [Carlier, Gilles; Charlier, Gilles] (b Cambrai, c1400; d Paris, 23 Nov 1472). French theologian, theorist and poet. After studying and teaching in Paris until 1432, he acquired a reputation at the Council of Basle for his disputations with the Hussites. The council deputed him to Bohemia in 1433, and in 1434 he was sent to the court of Charles VII of France in an effort to end the Hundred Years War. In 1436 (1431 according to Fétis) he was appointed dean of Cambrai Cathedral, an office he held to the end of his life. From the 1450s he divided his attentions between Cambrai and the Collège de Navarre, Paris. He produced numerous theological, devotional and controversial writings, some of which were posthumously published in Sporta fragmentorum and Sportula fragmentorum (Brussels, 1478–9). The latter volume contains his Tractatus de duplici ritu cantus ecclesiastici in divinis officiis (ed. in Strohm and Cullington). The treatise, probably written late in Carlerius’s life, is a defence of the singing of polyphony in the divine service, citing classical, biblical and patristic writers on the value and effects of music. Tinctoris’s Complexus effectuum musices (c1472–5) depends to some extent on Carlerius’s treatise for content and language. In 1457–8 Carlerius composed the texts for a new Marian office, the Recollectio festorum Beate Marie Virginis, introduced at Cambrai Cathedral and sung throughout the Low Countries and in Savoy; they were set to plainchant by Du Fay.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FétisB
EitnerQ
J. Toussaint: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, ed. A. Baudrillet, xi (Paris, 1949), cols. 1046–50
Z. Kałuża: ‘Matériaux et remarques sur le catalogue des oeuvres de Gilles Charlier’, Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age, xxxvi (1969), 169–81
A. Seay: Introduction to Egidius Carlerius: Duo tractatuli de musica (Colorado Springs, CO, 1977); see also review by R. Woodley, ML, lx (1979), 357–8
J.-P. Lobies, ed.: Index bio-bibliographicus notorum hominum, xxxii (Osnabruck, 1984), 2229 [addl bibliography]
B. Haggh: ‘The Celebration of the “Recollectio Festorum Beatae Mariae Virginis”, 1457–1987’, IMSCR XIV: Bologna 1987, iii, 559–71
R. Strohm and J.D. Cullington, eds. and trans.: Egidius Carlerius, Johannes Tinctoris: On the Dignity and the Effects of Music: Two Fifteenth-Century Treatises (London, 1996) [Introduction by Strohm]
BARBARA H. HAGGH