1330s in music

Overview of the events of the 1330s in music

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The 1330s in music involved some events.

Events

1330
- Juan Ruiz, the Arcipreste de Hita, writes the first version of his El libro de buen amor, which describes many musical practices in Spain.^[1]
1334
- February – Merlin, a vidulator at the court of Edward III was given leave and a grant towards his expenses to go to minstrel schools on the Continent, probably at Mechelen, Ypres, or Deventer, where there were celebrated schools for fiddlers.^[2]
1337
- exact date unknown – Pedro IV of Aragon summons to his court the musicians Ali Eziqua and Çahat Mascum, his favourite players of the rebec and exabeba.^[3]
1338
- 28 January (by modern reckoning; 1337 by ecclesiastical usage of the time) – Guillaume de Machaut takes up a canonicate in Reims, "per procuratiorem" (i.e., by proxy).^[4]

1334 – Pope Benedict XII institutes the Papal Cappella, which would eventually become the Capella Sistina.^[5]

^ Robert Stevenson, "Arcipreste de Hita [Ruiz, Juan]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Mary Remnant, "Fiddle [fedylle, ffidil, ffythele, fiele, fithele, phidil, vithele etc.]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Robert Stevenson and Maricarmen Gómez, "Spain, §I: Art Music, 1. Early History", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Roger Bowers, "Guillaume de Machaut and His Canonry of Reims, 1338-1377", Early Music History 23 (2004): 1–48. Citation on 7–8.
^ Adele Poindexter and Barbara H. Haggh, "Chapel", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).