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.[2]
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.[3]
^Robert Stevenson, "Arcipreste de Hita [Ruiz, Juan]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^Mary Remnant, "Fiddle [fedylle, ffidil, ffythele, fiele, fithele, phidil, vithele etc.]", 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).
