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Medieval Music Database

Mercy ou mort ay longtemps desirT

anonymous ballade

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 84 (4/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle), fol. 28v-29 (lost);
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, French MS 15 (text);
Utrecht: Universiteitsbibliotheek 1846 (shelfmark 6 E 37), fol. 29 (Contratenor only).

Editions

1. GÜNTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, no. 6 (Pn6771).
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. Zehn datierbare Kompositionen der Ars Nova, Hamburg: 1959. Schriftenreihe des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Universität Hamburg, Heft II, no. 5 [R PhD ed.].
3. A Fourteenth-Century Repertory from the Codex Reina, edited by Nigel Wilkins, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1966. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 36, p. 34.
4. 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. 81.
5. 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. 184 (Pn6771)., p. 188 (NL-Uu37).

Literature

1. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Das Ende der Ars Nova', Die Musikforschung, XVI (1963), p. 114.
2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), pp. 202-207, 212, 213.
3. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, p. 154.

Recordings

Antologia Sonora della Musica Italiana. Vol 3: Musiche Profane nel Basso Medio Evo, Lucca (S), Nobile (T), soloists: Carisch MCA 28017.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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