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Juan Ruiz, the Arcipreste de Hita, writes the first version of his El libro de buen amor, which describes many musical practices in Spain.
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.
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.
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).
Bands formed
1334 – Pope Benedict XII institutes the Papal Cappella, which would eventually become the Capella Sistina.
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References
Robert Stevenson, "Arcipreste de Hita ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Mary Remnant, "Fiddle ", 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).
