Adam de Givenchi

Adam de Givenchi (fl. 1230–1268) was a trouvère, probably from Givenchy and active in and around Arras. His surname is also spelled Givenci, Gevanche, or Gievenci.

Adam appears in charters of May and July 1230 as a clerk of the Bishop of Arras. He was still serving in the household of the bishop in 1232. In 1243 he was named as a priest and chaplain to the bishop.[1] In 1245 he was the doyen of Lens.

In Arras he associated with the poets Simon d’Authie, Pierre de Corbie, Guillaume Le Vinier,[2] and Jehan Bretel. He wrote one jeu parti with each of the last two, and the composition with Guillaume (Amis Guillaume, ainc si sage ne vi) has several surviving melodies. Six other poems survive to his name, all with melodies. Two of these are chanson avec des refrains and two further are descorts.

Songs with music[edit]

Eight songs survive attributed to Adam in the index of MS M (the chansonnier du roi) and all have music in at least one source. They are given here in the order that they occur both in the index and in the body of MS M; the RS numbers are those of the standard catalogue.[3] The first five songs occur in the same order in MS T (the chansonnier de noailles), although the other three are found in a similarly ordered group earlier in the manuscript.

  • Mar vi loial voloir et jalousie (RS1164). Song in MSS M T and a. The copy in M is damaged by the removal of the initial at the opening.
  • Compains Jehan .i. jeu vous voil partir (RS1443). Jeu parti found in MSS M, T, Q, and W (where it is attributed instead to Adam de la Halle). Different melodies.
  • Si com fortune d’amour (RS1947). Song in MSS M and T.
  • Assés plus que d’estre amés (RS912). Chanson avec des refrains copied without staves for the subsequent stanzas' refrains in both M and T.
  • Pour li servir en bone foi (RS1660). Chanson avec des refrains with music for later stanzas' refrains in MS M (except stanzas 2 and 4) but not in T.
  • Amis Guillaume, ainc si sage ne vi (RS1085). Jeu parti with Guillaume le Vinier found in MSS M, T, A, a, and b. Different melodies.
  • Trop ai coustumiere amours (RS2018). Descort found in MSS M and T.
  • La douce accordance (RS205). Descort found in MSS M and T but the MS M melody is copied in a slightly later hand and differs from that in T. The T melody is incomplete at the end.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Adam de Givenchi". Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature. Vol. 1. Funk and Wagnalls. 1954. p. 580.
  2. ^ Polet, Jean-Claude (1992). Patrimoine littéraire européen: anthologie en langue française, Tome 11, Part 2. De Boeck Université. p. 178. ISBN 978-2-8041-1843-3.
  3. ^ Spanke, Hans. G. Raynaud’s Bibliographie des altfranzösische Liedes, neu bearbeitet und ergänzt. Leiden: Brill, 1955.

References[edit]

  • Parker, Ian R. "Adam de Givenchi." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Accessed 20 September 2008.
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