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Medieval Music Database

Le gay plaisir et la doce esperance

anonymous ballade

Sources

Cambridge: University Library, Additional 5943, fol. 165v (3/1);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 78 (3/1).

Facsimiles

WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 108., p. 108.

Editions

1. A Fourteenth-Century Repertory from the Codex Reina, edited by Nigel Wilkins, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1966. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 36, p. 28.
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. 65.
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. 173.

Literature

1. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 107-109.
2. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, p. 71.

Recordings

The Service of Venus and Mars: Music for the Knights of the Garter, 1340-1440, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1986): Hyperion A66238.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003