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Martyrum gemma latria; Diligenter inquiramus; A Christo honoratus
Three-voice motet by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

Ivrea: Biblioteca Capitolare 115, fol. 10v-11 (3/2);
New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 278v (3/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 432v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 276v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1586 (MachC), fol. 223v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 144 (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 120v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle), fol. 23v-24 (lost).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Dritter Band: Motetten, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1929, p. 68.
2. The Works of Guillaume de Machaut, Second Part, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century III, p. 8.

Text Editions

Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 521.

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. 101-103.
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. 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.
5. 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. 231.

Recordings

The Italian Trecento, Columbia University Collegium Musicum, directed by Richard Taruskin: Collegium Stereo JE 105.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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