Illario

Updated on 17/08/2020
Other names
Ylario, Jlario
Dates
[late 15th century]
Notes

The composer's identity is uncertain. Stevenson considers that he could be a 'Iohannes Illarius' mentioned as an authority by theorist Cristóbal de Escobar (Introducción muy breve de canto llano, published in Salamanca in the 1490s). Dean dissociates him from the three French composers that could correspond to the name 'Hylaire'. According to Knighton, the existence of two pieces by Illario in E-TZ 2/3 and E-Bbc M. 454 could indicate some links to the Aragonese royal chapel.

Bibliography
Knighton, Tess, Música y músicos en la corte de Fernando el Católico, 1474-1516 (Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 2001)
Kreitner, Kenneth, The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004), pp. 133-35
Stevenson, Robert, Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960), pp. 83-85, 177, 196
Wolf, Johannes, “Der Choraltraktat des Cristoval de Escobar”, in Gedenkboek aangeboden aan Dr. D. F. Scheurleer op zijn 70sten Verjaardag, ed. by Guido Adler (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1925) pp. 383-91, at 388
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