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BeautT parfaite, bontT soverayne
Three-voice ballade by Antonellus da Caserta

Sources

Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria a.M.5.24 (Latino 568; olim IV.D.5), fol. 14 (3/1);
New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 20;
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 843, fol. 187 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 881 (olim 7235), fol. 112v (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 196v (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 37 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1586 (MachC), fol. 140 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1587 (olim 612), fol. 24v (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 9 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 58v (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 46v (3/1).

Facsimiles

APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 421 (Pn6771).

Editions

1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 23 (Pn6771).
2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I, p. 5 (MOe5.24).
3. La Louange des Dames, edited by Nigel Wilkins, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973, p. 168 (Pn6771).
4. 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. 7 (Pn6771).

Literature

1. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, pp. 405 briefly, 418, 420, 422.
2. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Hat Matheus de Perusio Epoche gemacht?', Die Musikforschung, VIII (1955), p. 21.
3. SWARTZ, Anne. 'A new chronology of the ballades of Machaut', Acta Musicologica, XLVI (1974), p. 203.
4. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Guillaume de Machaut, fondateur d'école?', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 333-334.
5. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.
6. YUDKIN, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989, pp. 569-575.
7. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, p. 75.

Recordings

1. Denkmäler Alter Musik aus dem Codex Reina (14./15. Jh.), members of Syntagma Musicum, directed by Kees Otten (1979): Telefunken AW6 42357.
2. Machaut and his time, Alba Musica Kyo (1994): Channel Classics CCS 7094.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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