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Medieval Music Database

Or sus, vous dormTs trop, ma dame joliete

anonymous virelai

Sources

Copenhagen: Det kongelige Bibliothek, fragment 17a, nos. 2400-2403, fol. av-bv (fragment);
Gent: Rijksarchief, Varia D.3360 (Abbey Ter Haeghen), fol. 1 (incomplete Tenor and Contratenor);
Ivrea: Biblioteca Capitolare 115, fol. 14v-15 (3/1);
London: British Library, Additional 29987, fol. 76v-77 (3/0);
Padua: Biblioteca Universitaria 658, fol. 2 (3/1) (Cantus incomplete);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 122v-124 (3/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 78v-79 (3/1);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 76v (Contrafactum)(lost).

Facsimiles

1. The Manuscript London, British Museum Add. 29987, facsimile edition by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Musicological Studies and Documents 13, (Lo).
2. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 32.

Editions

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. Die Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Potsdam: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1931.
2. Les monuments de l'Ars nova, edited by Guillaume de Van, Paris: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1938, no. 4.
3. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 70 (Pn568).
4. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), Vol. II, p. 105 (IV115).
5. Keyboard Music of the Late Middle Ages in the Codex Faenza 117, edited by D. Plamenac, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1972. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 57, p. 41 (IV115).
6. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1972. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/III, p. 42.
7. GOZZI, Marco. [London, British Library 29987: Transcription and Commentary], 2 vols., dissertation, Cremona, Scuola di paleografica musicale, University of Pavia: 1984-1985.
8. GARFORTH, Constance C. The Lo Manuscript: A Trecento Collection, Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University: 1983.
9. French Secular Music. Virelais, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXI, p. 112 (IV115).

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. 136-137, 199.
2. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. Nachtrag zu Studie I', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VIII (1926), p. 233.
3. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The Middle Ages', [in] A History of Song, edited by Denis Stevens, 2nd edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1970, p. 51.
4. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), pp. 150-152.
5. PLAMENAC, Dragan. '[Communication]', Journal of the American Musicological Society, XXVII (1974): 162-163.
6. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 31.
7. WILKINS, Nigel. 'Virelai', The New Grove, XX (1980): 1-3.
8. HASSELMAN, Margaret M. and David McGOWN. 'Mimesis and woodwind articulation in the fourteenth century', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1983, pp. 101-108.
9. HALLMARK, Anne. 'Some evidence for French influence in northern Italy, c.1400', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 193-226.
10. LECLERCQ, F. 'Questions à propos d'un fragment récemment découvert d'une chanson du XIV siècle: une autre version de "Par maintes fois"' Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 202.
11. STROHM, Reinhard. 'The Ars nova fragments of Gent', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, XXXIV (1984), p. 114.
12. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.

Recordings

1. Monuments of the Ars Nova, vol. 3, J. Archimbaud (Tr), R. Bonté (T): Oiseau-Lyre OL 3.
2. French Chansons. Vol. 1: La fleur des chansons d'amour. Vol. 2: Chansons polyphoniques françaises, Vocal Ensemble: J. Archimbaud (Tr), J. Dutey (B), A. Doniat, directed by Roger Blanchard (1955?): Philips N 00993/4R.
3. Music of Mediaeval France 1200 - 1400 [Songs of Birds, Battles and Love, and the Flowering of the French Chanson], Deller Consort, Concentus Musicus Vienna, directed by Alfred Deller, Nicolaus Harnoncourt (1961): Bach Guild BG 70656 (mono BG 656).
4. Denkmäler Alter Musik aus dem Codex Reina (14./15. Jh.), members of Syntagma Musicum, directed by Kees Otten (1979): Telefunken AW6 42357.


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