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Medieval Music Database

Fons totius superbie; O livoris feritas; Fera pessima

Three-voice motet by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 268v (3/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 422v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 266v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1586 (MachC), fol. 213v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 139v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 110v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle), fol. 33v-34 (lost).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Dritter Band: Motetten, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1929, p. 33.
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. 137.

Text Editions

Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 499.

Literature

1. 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. 82-84.
2. REICHERT, Georg. 'Das Verhältnis zwischen musikalischer und textlicher Struktur in den Motetten Machauts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XIII (1956): 197ff.
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. EGGEBRECHT, Hans H. 'Machaut's Motette Nr. 9', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XIX-XX (1962), pp. 173-195.
5. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
6. WERNLI, A. 'La percettibilità delle strutture isoritmiche: osservazioni sui mottetti di Guillaume de Machaut', Studi Musicali, VI (1977), p. 15.
7. SANDERS, Ernest H. 'Motet. I. Mediaeval. 3. Ars Nova', The New Grove, XII (1980): 625-628, 646.
8. LEGUY, Sylvette. 'Les procédés de composition dans l'oeuvre de Machaut (à l'exclusion de la Messe)', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 307-320.
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. BENT, Margaret. 'The Machaut manuscripts Vg, B and E', Musica Disciplina, XXXVII (1983), p. 81.
11. FULLER, Sarah. 'On sonority in fourteenth-century polyphony: some preliminary reflections', Journal of Music Theory, XXX/1 (1986), p. 36.
12. MARKSTROM, Kurt. 'Machaut and the wild beast', Acta Musicologica, LXI/1 (1989), pp. 17-26.
13. FULLER, Sarah. 'Modal Tenors and tonal orientation in motets of Guillaume de Machaut', Studies in Medieval Music: Festschrift for Ernhest H. Sanders, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, p. 204.

Recordings

1. Guillaume de Machaut. La Messe de Nostre Dame, Motetten, James Bowman and Tom Sutcliffe (CT), Capella Antiqua München, directed by Konrad Ruhland (1970): Telefunken AS6 41125 (SAWT 9566-B).
2. Guillaume de Machaut. Chansons II, Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1973): EMI-Reflexe IC063-30-109 (GER)/ IC163-30-107/12 (GER).
3. [Guillaume de Machaut], Séminaire Européen de Musique Ancienne, directed by Bernard Gagnepain (1977): Erato EFM 18041.
4. Hommage à Machaut, Ars Cameralis, Prague (1978): Panton 8111 0056.


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