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Medieval Music Database

Lay de la fonteinne: Je ne cesse de prier

by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 250v (3/3);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 843, fol. 229 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 396 (3/3); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 248v (3/3); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 122v (3/3); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 93 (3/3).

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. 45.
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. 39.
3. CALDWELL, John. Medieval Music, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, London: Hutchinson, 1978, no. 65 (incomplete).

Text Editions

Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 406.

Literature

1. BONACCORSI, Alfredo. 'Un nuovo codice dell' Ars nova: Il codice Lucchese', Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Ser. 8, I/12 (1948), p. 565.
2. MACHABEY, Armand. Guillaume de Machault, 130?-1377: La vie et l'oeuvre musicale, 2 vols, Paris: Richard-Masse-Editeur, 1955. Bibliothèque d'études musicales, pp. 119, 122-126.
3. 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.
4. WILKINS, Nigel. 'Guillaume de Machaut, 1300-1377', Consort, XXXIII/2 (1977), pp. 216-217.
5. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, pp. 407-408.
6. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 21-22.
7. FALLOWS, David. 'Lai', The New Grove, X (1980): 364-376.
8. GAGNEPAIN, Bernard. 'La musique en France a l'arrivée de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, p. 275.
9. 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.
10. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Fourteenth-century music with texts revealing performance practice', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, p. 264.
11. 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, p. 263.
12. REANEY, Gilbert. 'A consideration of the relative importance of words and music in composition from the 13th to the 15th century', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 189.
13. YUDKIN, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989, pp. 488-492.

Recordings

1. Guillaume de Machaut. Chansons I, Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1972): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-106 (GER)/ 1C-163-30-101/6 (GER).
2. [Guillaume de Machaut], Music for a While, directed by Richard Taruskin (1977): Arch Records 1750 S 1773.
3. Guillaume de Machaut: 2 Polyphonic Lais, The Medieval Ensemble of London, directed by Peter Davies & Timothy Davies (1983): Oiseau-Lyre DSDL 705 (GB).
4. Messe de Notre Dame, The Hilliard Ensemble, directed by Paul Hilier (1989): CDA66358.
5. Guillaume de Machaut Messe de Notre Dame, Hillard Endemble, directed by Paul Hillier (1989): Hyperion CDA 66358.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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