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En discort sont Desir et Esperance
anonymous ballade

Sources

Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Handschriften-Inkunabelabteilung 352b (olim Mus. 3725) (Buxheimer Orgelbuch), fol. 43v (intabulation); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14274 (olim M.mus. 3232a) (Contrafactum);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 70 (3/1);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 106v (Contrafactum ?);
Utrecht: Universiteitsbibliotheek 1846 (shelfmark 6 E 37), fol. 30v (3/1);
Vienna: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 5094, number 2 (Contrafactum);
Warsaw: National Library III. 8054 (olim Krasinski 52), fol. 184.

Facsimiles

1. Sources of Polyphony up to c.1500: Editions, edited by Miroslaw Perz, Warsaw: PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1976. Antiquitates Musicae in Polonia 14, p. 59.
2. KREYSZIG, Walter Kurt. Anonymous Compositions from the Late-Fourteenth and Early-Fifteenth Centuries, Vienna: Braumüller, 1984. Forschungen zur älteren Musikgeschichte, Band 5, plate V (Pn6771)., plate IV (Uu37).

Editions

1. A Fourteenth-Century Repertory from the Codex Reina, edited by Nigel Wilkins, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1966. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 36, p. 22.
2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1971. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/II, p. 3 (Pn6771, Uu37).
3. Keyboard Music of the Late Middle Ages in the Codex Faenza 117, edited by D. Plamenac, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1972. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 57, p. 9 (Pn6771).
4. Sources of Polyphony up to c.1500: Editions, edited by Miroslaw Perz, Warsaw: PWN-Polish Scientific Publishers, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1976. Antiquitates Musicae in Polonia 14, p. 261 (Wn52).
5. 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. 112 (Pn6771).
6. KREYSZIG, Walter Kurt. Anonymous Compositions from the Late-Fourteenth and Early-Fifteenth Centuries, Vienna: Braumüller, 1984. Forschungen zur älteren Musikgeschichte, Band 5, p. 271 (Uu37).

Literature

1. BORREN, Charles van den. Le manuscrit musical 222 C. 22 de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulé en 1870, et reconstitué d'après une copie d'Edmond de Coussemaker, Antwerp: E. Secelle, 1924, p. 169.
2. WARD, T. 'A central European repertory in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl. Clm. 14274', Early Music History I (1981), p. 329.
3. PERZ, Miroslaw. 'Zur Textunterlegungspraxis in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 331-333.
4. WELKER, Lorenz. 'New light on Oswald von Wolkenstein: central European traditions and Burgundian polyphony', Early Music History, 7 (1987), pp. 211-213.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003