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Medieval Music Database

Lay de l'ymage: Ne say comment commencier

by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 245 (1/1);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 843, fol. 227v (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 391v (1/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 243 (1/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1586 (MachC), fol. 189 (1/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 118v (1/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 90 (1/1);
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, French MS 15, number 167 (text).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Vierter Band: Messe und Lais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig and completed posthumously by Heinrich Besseler, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1954, p. 40.
2. The Works of Guillaume de Machaut, First Part, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century II, p. 30.

Text Editions

Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 389.

Literature

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, Chapter 4.5.
2. MULDER, E. 'Einige Bemerkungen zu Machaut's "Lay de L'Ymage"', Die Musikforschung, XXXII/1 (1979): 58-62.
3. FALLOWS, David. 'Lai', The New Grove, X (1980): 364-376.
4. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Contribution de la musicologie à la biographie et à la chronologie de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 95-116.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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