Solage

Solage (* end of the 14th century; † after 1403 probably) was a French composer. His works have survived only in the Codex Chantilly, the main source for music from the younger Ars nova, which you subtilior later sided with the term Ars.

Life

About his life nothing is known, which can not be derived from the texts on his own music. Dedications in his songs show that he was probably associated with the French royal court.

Music

Stylistically, much of his music typical of the last two decades of the fourteenth century, but extends out to some of the ordinary. This best known being the very remarkable Chanson Fumeux fume par fumee, in a harmony set whose boldness was only achieved in the High Renaissance as Chromatic sentence again. Solage apparently belonged to a group that called itself the Les fumeux. Since tobacco is not yet known in Europe and the term of the smoker in the modern sense was not yet in use, the name may either (most likely incense ) indicate the use of a different smoke, but also have had a purely symbolic meaning.

Only ten stations are safe from Solage, but two more are attributed on stylistic grounds. All twelve are included in the Codex Chantilly:

  • Fumeux fume par fumée
  • Hélas depending voy mon cuer
  • Corps Feminin
  • En l' amoureux Vergier
  • Joieux de Cuer
  • Le basile
  • Pluseurs assets
  • Calextone, qui fut lady
  • Tres gentil cuer
  • S'aincy estoit

Uncertain:

  • Adieu vous di
  • Le mont Aon de Trace

All works of Solage were taken by the Gothic Voices.

Recordings

  • 2004 - Zodiac. Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior in the Netherlands and EuropaCapilla Flamenca. Eufoda 1360th
  • Febus Avant! Music at the Court of Gaston Febus, Count of Foix and Béarn (1331-1391); Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel; Sony, 1992 ( # 6).

Credentials

  • Yolanda Plumley: " Solage ", Grove Music Online ed L. Macy ( Accessed June 25, 2005 ), ( subscription access)
  • Richard H. Hoppin, Medieval Music. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. ISBN 0-393-09090-6
  • The Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow: "The Art of Courtly Love: Late 14th Century Avant Garde". EMI LP ASD 1973. 3621st Includes " Fumeux fume " and " Helas! Voy mon cuer ever ".
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