Pierre Aubry (musicologist)

Pierre Aubry (14 February 1874 in Paris – 31 August 1910 in Dieppe) was a French musicologist (the first to use the term musicologie.) who specialized in secular monophony, musical palaeography and the music of the 13th century.

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He is particularly known for applying the modal rhythms of Franconian theory to the repertoire trouvère and troubadour songs. The Alsatian scholar Johann-Baptist (later Jean) Beck claimed plagiarism and Aubry called for a trial, which resulted in a judgment in Beck's favor. Aubry's premature death by suicide was shrouded in rumors of a duel, Beck himself believing the fatal stab wound was an accident while practicing for combat.