Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2014
This article examines the thinking of Guy of Saint-Denis about plainchant tones as formulated in his Tractatus de Tonis (c.1300), preserved as the final item in an anthology of texts that he prepared (British Library, MS Harley 281). It examines his attitude to each of the major theorists singled out in this anthology. It argues that Guy's approach to chant combines the practically oriented writings of Guido of Arezzo with the Aristotelian perspective formulated by Johannes de Grocheio, but takes that perspective a step further by reflecting on the ways different types of chant impact on the emotions. Guy was also much influenced by Peter of Auvergne, a philosopher in the Arts Faculty at Paris committed to developing the teaching of Thomas Aquinas. Careful corrections to the Tractatus in Harley 281 reflect this ongoing concern to refine his thinking, possibly stimulated by Jerome of Moravia. His core conviction is that chant modes each have an affective attribute, and need to be chosen according to the subject matter of the text being sung. Guy criticised the practice of choosing modes sequentially in liturgical offices composed by those he calls ‘moderns’. Guy argues his case by drawing on examples of chant from Saint-Denis. A case can be made, on palaeographic grounds, for identifying him with Guy of Châtres, abbot of Saint-Denis (1326–42) and author of a Sanctilogium that updates the traditional monastic martyrology by reference to more recent Dominican collections of saints' lives in order to make them more accessible for liturgical use.
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12 These texts in H are edited in Mews et al., ‘Guy of St Denis’, 28.
13 H, fol. 5v, ed. Mews et al., ‘Guy of St Denis’, 29: ‘Sepe et multum graviter elaborare perstudui, antiqua grecorum volumina revolvens si simplex huius artis ratio numerorum proportionibus omnino posthabitis teneris auribus cantorum plenarie posset accomodari; multorum itaque consideratis tractatibus ad hoc Boetium inveni meliorem, que et quanta sit coniunctio vocum per modos per tropos per species inter se consonantium ostendentem, quo vero nititur solis intendere philosophis vim et naturam vocum armonice querentibus contrarius est et difficilis. Senior enim philosophie tractatus nimia obscuritate perplexus gravitate verborum argumenta proferentium improvectis tendit insidias auribus.’
14 Tractatus, ed. Klundert, 1, 2:2.
15 H, fols. 16v–17r, ed. Mews et al., ‘Guy of Denis’, 30: ‘Nequaquam inquit tibi reor esse congruum musa, nullaque rationis auctoritas hoc probatur exigere, eadem via philosophorum, vel eisdem insistendo vestigiis, duris numerorum proportionibus, rudibus atque novis cantoribus musicam tradere … scio enim quod aures tenere, seniores philosophie tractatus plenarie non possunt percipere.’
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23 H, fol. 38r, ed. Mews et al., ‘Guy of St-Denis’, 32: ‘Incipit alia ars de tonis per modum dyalogi que a quibusdam intitulatur sub nomine beati bernardi.’
24 Tonale Sancti Bernardi, ed. Meyer, 87: ‘Quod quaeris, non est praesentis negotii, cum prohibente sancto Cisterciensi capitulo, nec in gradali nec in Antiphonario quidquam mutari jam liceat. Quaere tamen musicam Guidonis Augensis, quam scribit ad sanctissimum magistrum suum domnum Guillelmum primum Rievallis abbatem. Ibi de talibus sufficienter doceri poteris.’ Coussemaker's edition, reprinted in Patrologia Latina 182:1166D, erroneously reads ‘nec in Guidonis Antiphonario’.
25 See Grocheio, Ars musice, 5.5, 56–8.
26 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II.ii, q.91, art. 2: ‘Manifestum est autem quod secundum diversas melodias sonorum animi hominum diversimode disponuntur, ut patet per philosophum, in viii polit., et per Boetium, in prologo musicae.’
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29 Ibid., 25.2, 94.
30 Ibid., 26.8, 98–9.
31 Tractatus, ed. Klundert, 2:133: ‘et magistrum Petrum de Cruce, qui fuit optimus cantor et Ambianensis ecclesie consuetudinem specialiter observavit’.
32 Petrus de Cruce Ambianensis, Tractatus de tonis, ed. Denis Harbinson, Corpus scriptorum de musica 29 (Rome, 1976).
33 Ibid., 282.
34 H, fol. 58v: ‘Qui legis auctoris nomen per quinque priora / Gramata pictoris, hoc scribe celitus ora’. Cf. Guido of Arezzo, Regule, ed. Pesce, 328.
35 Tractatus, ed. Klundert, 1.1, 2:4: ‘qui cantus publicos et civiles – utpote cantilenas et rotundellos – et maxime cantus mensuratos – quales sunt moteti, hoqueti et huiusmodi dicunt tonis non subici nec per eos regulari’. Cf. Grocheio, Ars musice, 25.2, 94, ‘Non enim per tonum cognoscimus cantum vulgalem. puta cantilenam. ductiam. stantipedem. quemadmodum superius dicebatur.’
36 Tractatus, ed. Klundert, 1.2, 2:22: ‘sicut repperi in quodam libello de tonis ac eorum origine antiquo valde, ubi et Guidonis Micrologus continetur, quem in isto tractatu frequenter allego’.
37 Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis III.457 and V.350; Alexandreis. A Twelfth-Century Epic, trans. David Townsend (Peterborough, Ont., 2007), 214.
38 H, f. 65r–v: ‘ultra protenderet studentes postmodum et per istos octo sonos et cantandi modos qui nunc toni dicuntur argumenta quamplura certissime conicientes discipline musice seriem congesserunt’.
39 Tractatus, ed. Klundert, 1.2, 2:24: ‘Sed quid iste voces significent vel cuius lingue sint, “noieane” videlicet vel “noieagis” aut consimiles, nemo, ut ibidem legitur, adhuc novit, nisi forte quod talis vox vel sonus quasi lingua hominis per fistulas occultas ex concursu aque et aeris spiritu ventorum resonat. Greci tamen aliqui, ut huiusmodi questione se statim liberent, istas voces interpretantur esse voces letitie sicut “euax” est interiectio letitiam et exultationem designans.’
40 Tractatus, ed. Klundert, 1.2, 2:24–5: ‘A quo siquidem illa, que ex predicto libello antiquo hucusque de tonorum origine recitando magis posui quam asserendo, conscripta fuerint cuique auctori imputari debeant aut ascribi, certum non habeo. Videtur tamen potius quod alteri, qui post Guidonem fuerit, quam ipsi Guidoni, presertim cum ibidem de ipso eiusque tonorum formulis fiat expresse mentio sub his verbis: Formulas Guidonis abbatis viri in musica preclarissimi subter inseruimus inter tonos. Quamvis namque Boecius et ceteri antiquiriores musici acutius atque profundius traverint de obscura et impenetrabili musice scientia, que soli deo ad plenum patet, iste tamen nobis condescendes lucidissimas et utilissimas ad canendum composuit regulas huius artis. Ecclesiasticus enim homo de necessario usu ecclesie nos instruxit, dans plurima officiorum responsoriorum vel antiphonarum exempla, quod omnino pene omnes alii tacuerunt.’
41 Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale, 4 vols. (Paris, 1868–81), 2:527: ‘Guido Augensis liber de musica ad Willermum Rievallis abbatem. Item eiusdem micrologus ad Theobaldum, Arethiane civitatis episcopum. Item dyalogus ecclesiastice cum octo modorum formulis, demum eorum regule generales. In uno volumine cuius signum est littera E.’ See Rouse, Richard H., ‘Manuscripts Belonging to Richard de Fournival’, Revue d'histoire des textes, 3 (1973), 253–69CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Meyer, ‘Tonaire’, 66, notes that the Micrologus is also attributed to Guido Augensis in a twelfth-century manuscript, Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 1616.
42 Tractatus, ed. Klundert, 1.4, 2:49: ‘Licet autem secundum diversitatem regionum morumque hominum tot vel plures videantur esse maneries et modi cantandi.’
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46 Ibid., 1.4, 2:39.
47 Ibid., 1.4, 2:40.
48 Ibid., 1.4, 2:41.
49 Ibid., 1.4, 2:52.
50 Ibid., 1.4, 2:55–6.
51 Aristotle, Ethics 1.3.1094b27, trans. William of Moerbeke: ‘Sermones inquirendi sunt secundum materiam de qua sunt.’
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61 Jerome, Tractatus 21, lines 21–160, 147–8: ‘Omnis igitur cantus… erit cantus ille toni paris.’
62 See ibid. 20, 142: ‘Tropus autem secundum Johannem de Garlandia est regula, quae de omni cantu in fine dijudicat. Aliter tropus est species uniuscujusque diapason. Aliter adhuc tropus est, per quem cognoscimus principium, medium et finem cujuslibet meli.’
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71 H, fol. 58v: ‘Qui legis auctoris nomen per quinque priora Gramata pictoris, hoc scribi celitus ora.’
72 H, fol. 96v: ‘Explicit tractatus de tonis a fatre [sic] guidone monacho monasterii sancti dionysii in francia compilatus.’
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74 In the Sanctilogium Arabic numerals are supplied as a running title, to indicate the number of the book. Its form is very close to that given in Harley 281, in which Arabic numerals are often used, alongside Roman numerals (e.g. fol. 41), as part of Grocheio, Ars musice.
75 On the Sanctilogium, see Mews, Constant J. ‘Re-structuring the Golden Legend in the Early Fourteenth Century: The Sanctilogium of Guy of Châtres, abbot of Saint-Denis’, Revue bénédictine, 120 (2010), 129–44CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Sanctilogium sive Speculum legendarum (L London, British Library, Royal 13.D.IX) in which Guy expanded upon or supplanted the legendary of Jacobus de Voragine by drawing on resources available to him at St Denis. See also Omont, Henri, ‘Le Sanctilogium de Guy de Châtres, abbé de Saint-Denys’, Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 86 (1925), 407–10CrossRefGoogle Scholar, which contains a transcription of the prologue of the Sanctilogium.
76 These are some of the annotations in L, distinct from corrections to the main text by its scribe: [Macharius] fol. 8ra de sene petentem monachatum; [Epiphany] fol. 11rb nota pro regibus et prelatis; [Vincent] fol. 15rb pro raptoribus; [Anthony] fol. 18ra De uirtute familiaritatis ; fol. 18rb contra proprietarios … quod monachos post orationem debent operari … quod vere viderunt sanctos suos; [Louis] fol. 173ra pro plurima postulanda; fol. 173rb commendatio sancti Ludovici … remedium contra guerram; fol. 175rb nota de beato martire… cave pericula … de cibo et corpore Ludovici; [John the Baptist] fol. 182rb nota de iuliano apostato; fol. 192rb de furo liberando per beatam mariam. Other notes (not always legible) occur on fols. 144r, 166v, 168r, 168v, 169v, 170r, 185v, 186r, 192r, 192v, 212v, 219v, 241r, 255r, 256r, 260v, 277v, 310v, 313v, 345v, 346r, 346v. On fols. 353ra–rb and 354ra, on the temporal cycle, the same hand seems to have added Arabic numerals, very similar in form to those identifying individual books of the Sanctilogium and to those used in Harley 281.
77 Robertson, Anne, ‘The Reconstruction of the Abbey Church at Saint-Denis (1231–81): The Interplay of Music and Ceremony with Architecture and Politics’, Early Music History 5 (1985), 187–238Google Scholar.
78 Nebbiai-Dalla Guarda, La Bibliothèque de Saint-Denis, 337–55. The account books of Saint-Denis reveal that from 1284 a magister iuvenum and a magister puerorum were each paid 32 soldi per annum, raised to 40 soldi from 1320.
79 See the Introduction of Mews et al., to Grocheio, Ars musice, 14–16.
80 The accounts (referred to in n. 78 above) reveal that there was a trickle of expenditure on book purchases (never more than 8 libri in one year) from 1280/81 (when accounts begin after a break of fifty years) until 1328, when there was a sudden surge, which continued until 1339. During this period an average of more than 20 libri was spent per year with a maximum of nearly 74 libri in 1329–30. This interval coincides almost exactly with the time when Guy of Châtres was abbot of Saint-Denis (1326–42).
81 See Mews et al., ‘Guy of Saint-Denis’, 25–6.
