John Hothby, The Lucca Choirbook - and Further Dragon's Heads?
2008; Bärenreiter; Volume: 80; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2296-4339
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland
ResumoHothby is becoming a celebrity. A new article on Anglia (John Hothby) y ]ames Haar and John N?das contains welcome new information and further suggestions and specu lations about the English Carmelite musician, who taught at the Cathedral of Lucca in 1467-1486.1 The two authors combine the results of Pedro Memelsdorff s of Ottobiana in the Mantuan manuscript 518, only recently published by him,2 with their own work on the Florentine acquaintances of Hothby, whose setting of a canzona by Lorenzo de' Medici, Amor ch'hai visto ciascun mio pensiero is now made available in a fully texted version (p. 293-6). Some pages are devoted to Hothby's piece and John Bedyngham's ballata O rosa bella (also attributed to Dunstaple), where the authors trace the surprising discovery of stylistic connections between the two pieces to Bob Mitchell (see p. 300). They further illuminate the writing and copying of music theory in Hothby's circle at Lucca, highlighting the role of Matheus Francisci Florentia, who, in a theory manuscript written under Hothby's guidance at Lucca in 1471, apparently nicknames him self draconis and de Testa draconibus: in any case the authors report that no such genus name can be found in Florentine sources. It is proposed that the Fleming Bonadies was a student of John Hothby; similar suggestions are made concerning Johann von Dalberg, the well-known Qerman nobleman and friend of Rudolph Agricola who in 1474 was rector of Pavia University, where Hothby visited. My own proposal (made in 1993) to identify Dalberg with the composer of three pieces labelled Johannes Erfordia in the manuscript Faenza 117 is dubbed a guess (p. 318)?which it was not, since it was based on a careful study of Dalberg's biography and of Agricola's oration in praise of his
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