This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1390s.
1390
The monastery at Durham appoints John Stele to teach the Benedictine monks and eight secular boys to play the organs and to sing "triple song" (possibly faburden).[1]
exact date unknown – A group of merchants in Birmingham establish the Gild of the Holy Cross, which appointed priests to sing at the parish church, St Martin in the Bull Ring, as well as an organist whom they housed near to the church.[6]
1393
exact date unknown – The French singer and composer Bosquet (Johannes de Bosco, Jean du Bois) receives a papal grant as a musician to Duke Louis II of Anjou.[7]
1394
early in the year – The canons of Notre-Dame de Paris successfully solicit 200 francs from Charles VI for rebuilding the cathedral organ, after the original had fallen into disrepair.[8]
1395
exact date unknown – Johannes Tapissier makes a second visit to Avignon in the entourage of Philip the Bold.[4]
1397
exact date unknown – Earliest reference to a clavecembalum (in this case meaning a clavichord), in a letter from a Paduan lawyer Lambertacci, attributing its invention to Magister Armanus de Alemania.[9]
1399
exact date unknown – Johannes Tapissier visits Flanders in the entourage of Philip the Bold.[4]
May or June – Johannes Ciconia, Una panthera in compagnia de Marte madrigal for three voices, written for the diplomatic visit by Lazzaro Guinigi of Lucca to Gian Galeazzo Visconti in Pavia .
^Brian Crosby, "Durham", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001); Brian Trowell, "Faburden [faburdon, faburthon, fabourden, faberthon etc.]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001)
^Agostino Ziino, "'Magister Antonius dictus Zacharias de Teramo': alcune date e molte ipotesi", Rivista Italiana di Musicologia 14 (1979): 311–48. Citation on 311.
^Laurence Libin and Arnold Myers, "Instruments, Collections of, §2: Medieval", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ abcCraig Wright, "Tapissier, Johannes [Jean de Noyers]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Laura Kendrick, "Rhetoric and the Rise of Public Poetry: The Career of Eustache Deschamps", Studies in Philology 80, no. 1 (Winter 1983): 1–13. Citation on 7.
^Margaret Handford, "Birmingham", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Ursula Günther and Gilbert Reaney, "Bosquet [Boquet]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Craig Wright, Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550, Cambridge Studies in Music (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989): 146. ISBN978-0-521-24492-3 (cloth); ISBN978-0-521-08834-3 (pbk).
^Edmund A. Bowles, "On the Origin of the Keyboard Mechanism in the Late Middle Ages", Technology and Culture 7 (1966): 152–62. Citation on 154.
^Nors S. Josephson, "Die Konkordanzen zu 'En nul estat' und 'La harpe de melodie'", Die Musikforschung 25, No. 3 (July–September 1972), 292–300. Citation on 295.
^Andrew Wathey, "Matheus de Sancto Johanne [Mahuetus, Mayshuet (de Joan)]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
