Grocheo, Johannes de
Grocheo, Johannes de
Grocheo, Johannes de, French music theorist who flourished in the 13th and early 14th centuries. He wrote the treatise Ars musice or Theoria (c. 1300), important as a source of information on secular music of the Middle Ages. It is printed in the original Latin with German tr. by J. Wolf in Sammelbände der Internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft, I (1899-1900); emendations were provided by H. Müller (op. cit., vol. IV).
Bibliography
E. Rohloff, Studien zum Musiktraktat des J. d. G. (Leipzig, 1930); E. Rohloff, Die Quellenhandschriften zum Musiktraktat des J. d.G. (Leipzig, 1972).
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