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Medieval Music Database

Je, Fortune, fay a toulx assavoir

anonymous ballade

Sources

Bern: Bürgerbibliothek 218 (MachK), fol. 98 (2/0) (text);
Gent: Rijksarchief, Varia D.3360 (Abbey Ter Haeghen), fol. 2v (3/1);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 121v (2/0);
Praha: Státní Knihovna CSSR - Universitní Knihovna XI E 9, fol. 249 (2/0) (variants);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 47v (lost).

Editions

1. Die Musikstücke des Prager Codex XI E 9, edited by Friedrich Kammerer, Augsburg: 1931, p. 132.
2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1971. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/II, p. 56.
3. French Secular Music. Ballades and Canons, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XX, p. 157 (Pn568).

Literature

1. BORREN, Charles van den. Le manuscrit musical 222 C. 22 de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulé en 1870, et reconstitué d'après une copie d'Edmond de Coussemaker, Antwerp: E. Secelle, 1924, pp. 94-95.
2. STROHM, Reinhard. 'The Ars nova fragments of Gent', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, XXXIV (1984), p. 115.

Recordings

Musica in Bohemia in Tempore Caroli IV, Soloists, Symposium Musicum, Prague Madrigal Singers, directed by Miroslav Venhoda (1977): Supraphon 11112 2451/2.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003