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Medieval Music Database

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anonymous ballade

Sources

Paris: Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. fran�ais 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 65v (3/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. fran�ais 23190 (olim Serrant Ch�teau, ducs de la Tr�mo�lle), fol. 32 (lost).

Editions

1. G�NTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der franz�sischen Liedkunst in der zweiten H�lfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, no. 3.
2. G�NTHER, Ursula. Zehn datierbare Kompositionen der Ars Nova, Hamburg: 1959. Schriftenreihe des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Universit�t Hamburg, Heft II, no. 3 [R PhD ed.].
3. 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. 54.
4. 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. 25 (Pn6771).
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. 151 (Pn6771).

Literature

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv f�r Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.
2. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
3. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. G�nther and L. Finscher, Kassel: B�renreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.
4. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbez�ge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. G�nther and L. Finscher, Kassel: B�renreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.
5. WILLIAMS, Carol. 'La belle flour -- rondeau?', Miscellanea Musicologica: Adelaide Studies in Musicology, 16 (1989), p. 204.

Recordings

Codex Faenza. Italie XVe si�cle, : .


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003