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Ligiadra donna
ballata by Johannes Ciconia

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 4379, number 2, 44v-46 (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 4917, fol. 21v-22 (2/2);
Parma: Archivio di Stato, Busta n.75 (frammenti musicale), fol. 2 (3/2).

Facsimiles

1. GENNRICH, Friedrich. Abriss der Mensuralnotation des XIV und der ersten Hälfte des XV Jahrhunderts, Nieder-Modau: 1948. Musikwissenschaftliche Studienbibliothek 3-4, p. 61 (Pn4917).
2. BAUMANN, Dorothea. 'Silben- und Wortwiederholungen im italienischen Liedrepertoire des späten Trecento und frühen Quattrocento', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 80., p. 80., p. 80.

Editions

1. GHISI, Federico. 'Italian Ars nova music, the Perugia and Pistoia fragments of the Lucca Codex, and other unpublished early fifteenth century sources', Musica Disciplina, I/3 (1946), p. 23.
2. FANO, Fabio. Le origini e il primo maestro di cappella: Matteo da Perugia. Part 1 of La cappella musicale del duomo di Milano (with G. Cesari), Milan: Ricordi, 1956. Instituzioni e monumenti dell'arte musicale italiana, nuov. ser. 1., p. 392.
3. CLERCX, Suzanne. Johannes Ciconia: Un musicien liégois et son temps, 2 vols., Brussels: Palais des Académies, 1960, p. 73.
4. NEMETH, George L. The Secular Music of Johannes Ciconia, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University: 1977, p. 219 (Pn4917).
5. The Works of Johannes Ciconia, edited by Margaret Bent and Anne Hallmark, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1985. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXIV, p. 138 (Pn4917,Pn4379).

Literature

1. KORTE, W. Studien zur Geschichte der Musik in Italien im ersten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1933. Münsterische Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft VI, p. 67.
2. PIRROTTA, Nino and Ettore LI GOTTI. 'Il Codice di Lucca. III. Il repertorio musicale', Musica Disciplina, V (1951), p. 132.
3. FANO, Fabio. Le origini e il primo maestro di cappella: Matteo da Perugia. Part 1 of La cappella musicale del duomo di Milano (with G. Cesari), Milan: Ricordi, 1956. Instituzioni e monumenti dell'arte musicale italiana, nuov. ser. 1., p. 64.
4. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Zur Ciconia-Forschung', Die Musikforschung, XIV (1961), p. 321.
5. BAUMANN, Dorothea. 'Silben- und Wortwiederholungen im italienischen Liedrepertoire des späten Trecento und frühen Quattrocento', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 80.

Recordings

1. Johannes Ciconia (1335 - 1411), Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1972): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-102 (GER).
2. The Wandering Musicians. Flemish composers in Renaissance Italy, The Boston Camerata, directed by Joel Cohen (1974): Turnabout TV 34512S (GB/USA).
3. Johannes Ciconia, Las Huelgas Ensemble, directed by Paul van Nevel (1980): Musique en Wallonie 80040-44 (set).
4. Il Solazzo: music for a medieval banquet, David Douglass and Mary Springfels, vielles (1990): Harmonia Mundi 907038.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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