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[Je] languis d'amere mort
anonymous virelai

Sources

Basel: Staatsarchiv, Urkunden-Fragment, fol. 3v (3/0);
Florence: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 69 (3/1);
Gent: Rijksarchief, Varia D.3360 (Abbey Ter Haeghen), fol. 1v (3/0) (Superius and Tenor);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 132v-133 (3/0); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 70v (4/1);
Parma: Archivio di Stato, Busta n.75 (frammenti musicale), fol. 2v (3/0) (Contratenor only);
Praha: Státní Knihovna CSSR - Universitní Knihovna XI E 9, fol. 248v (3/0) (Cantus twice);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 67v (3/0).

Facsimiles

1. Bruxelles, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique. (A copy by Edmond de Coussemaker of 48 compositions from F-Sm 222), n47.
2. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 128 (FP).

Editions

1. Die Musikstücke des Prager Codex XI E 9, edited by Friedrich Kammerer, Augsburg: 1931, p. 128 (Pn6771, PuXIE9).
2. A Fourteenth-Century Repertory from the Codex Reina, edited by Nigel Wilkins, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1966. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 36, p. 58.
3. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1972. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/III, p. 23.
4. French Secular Music. Virelais, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXI, p. 85.

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, pp. 117-118, 197.
2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), p. 213.
3. STAEHELIN, Martin. 'Neue Quellen zur mehrstimmigen Musik des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts in der Schweiz', Schweizer Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, III (1978): 57-59.
4. STROHM, Reinhard. 'The Ars nova fragments of Gent', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, XXXIV (1984), p. 114.
5. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Une version a cinq voix du motet "Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis" dans le manuscript E-BCEN 853', Musica Disciplina, XXXIX (1985): 5-44.
6. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, p. 212.

Recordings

The Medieval Romantics, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1991): CDA66463.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003