John Hothby (Otteby, Hocby, Octobi, Ottobi, c. 1410–1487), also known by his Latinised names Johannes Ottobi or Johannes de Londonis, was an English Renaissance music theorist and composer who travelled widely in Europe and gained an international reputation for his work.
Little is known of the origins or early life of John Hothby. He appears to have left England after 1435 but most of the references to him in surviving sources are to the last twenty years of his life, by which time he had taken holy orders as a Carmelite monk and he claimed in his own work to have travelled in Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, before he went to a monastery in Ferrara and then in 1467 took employment in Lucca, probably teaching music at the Cathedral.[1] In 1486 he was recalled to England by the new king Henry VII and appears to have died in the north of England in the following year.[1]
Work and influence
Surviving compositions include six sacred Latin works and three secular Italian songs.[2] Exactly which works on music theory Hothby wrote is unclear and some older works may have been attributed to him and some contemporary works often given under this name may have been written by another author Johannes de Anglia.[1] Work generally attributed to him includes La Capiopea Legale and Proportiones Secundum.[3] Surviving work suggests that he was a traditionalist, defending the Pythagorean tuning and Guidonian pitch in the face of reforms proposed by Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja, but is chiefly notable for modifications to the pitch system to accommodate sharp and flat notes.[4] His work was widely known in Britain and continental Europe and he may have been the most important figure in communicating musical ideas of the Contenance Angloise between England and the continent.[5]
References
^ abcT. Dumitrescu, The early Tudor court and international musical relations (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007), p. 197.
^D. M. Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 395.
^K. Berger, Musica Ficta: Theories of Accidental Inflections in Vocal Polyphony from Marchetto Da Padova to Gioseffo Zarlino (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 36.
^T. Dumitrescu. The early Tudor court and international musical relations (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007), p. 198.
^T. Dumitrescu, The Early Tudor Court and International Musical Relations (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2007), p. 199.
Further reading
Reaney, Gilbert (1988). "The Musical Theory of John Hothby". Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap. 42: 119–133. doi:10.2307/3687105. JSTOR 3687105.
January 10, 2023
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