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Talent m'es pris de chanter
anonymous chasse

Sources

Innsbruck: Universitätsbibliothek, MS. s.s. (Wolkenstein-Rodeneck Codex), fol. 30-31 (Contrafactum);
Ivrea: Biblioteca Capitolare 115, fol. 10 (3/3), 52 (3/3);
Praha: Státní Knihovna CSSR - Universitní Knihovna XI E 9, fol. 249v (2/0);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 59v (Contrafactum)(lost), 88v? (Contrafactum, lost);
Vienna: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 2777, fol. 33 (Contrafactum).

Editions

1. Die Musikstücke des Prager Codex XI E 9, edited by Friedrich Kammerer, Augsburg: 1931, p. 137 (Pu XIE9, IV f.10, IV f.52.
2. REESE, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages, New York: W. W. Norton, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940, no. 99.
3. HANDSCHIN, Jacques. 'The Summer Canon and its background, I', Musica Disciplina, III (1949), p. 8.
4. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley): 1970.
5. 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. 168 (IV f.52).
6. 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. 219 (IV f.10)., p. 221 (IV f.52).
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. 107-108., p. 152.
2. REESE, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages, New York: W. W. Norton, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940, p. 336, 379.
3. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Per l'origine e la storia della "caccia" e del "madrigale" trecentesco', Rivista musicale italiana, XLVIII (1946), p. 318.
4. HANDSCHIN, Jacques. 'The Summer Canon and its background, I', Musica Disciplina, III (1949), pp. 80-82.
5. FICKER, Rudolf von. 'The transition on the continent', [chapter 5 of] The New Oxford History of Music. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham, London: Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 136-137.
6. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, p. 371.
7. 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.
Text
Talent m'est pris de chanter cume le coqu:
cucu cucu quo-cocu cha le quocu
cucu quocu cucu cucu quo-quocu
li joli tans est venus.
Talent m'est pris de chanter cume le coqu:
cucu cucu quo-cocu cha le quocu.
Translation
The fancy has taken me to sing like the cuckoo:
cuckoo, cuckoo, cu-cuckoo, there the cuckoo.
cuckoo, cuckoo,cuckoo, cuckoo, cu-cuckoo.
the fair season has come.
The fancy has taken me to sing like the cuckoo:
cuckoo, cuckoo, cu-cuckoo, there the cuckoo.
Text revision and translation © Jan Pinder

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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