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Medieval Music Database

Mais qu'il vous viengne a plaisance

anonymous virelai

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 77 (2/1);
[A late 14th century source: now lost except for a single work preserved in Gerbert's De cantu et musica sacra, II (1774), repr 1968]..

Facsimiles

1. GERBERT, Martin. De cantu et musica sacra, 1774, plate XIX.
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. XXII.

Editions

1. KIESEWETTER, R.G. Schicksale und Beschaffenheit des weltlichen Gesanges vom frühen Mittelalter bis zu der Erfindung des dramatischen Styles und den Anfängen der Oper, Leipzig: 1841, p. 9 (Gerbert).
2. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 62 (Pn6771).
3. A Fourteenth-Century Repertory from the Codex Reina, edited by Nigel Wilkins, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1966. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 36, p. 49 (Gerbert, Pn6771).
4. 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. 35 (Gerbert, Pn6771).
5. French Secular Music. Virelais, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXI, p. 102 (Gerbert, Pn6771).

Literature

1. GERBERT, Martin. De cantu et musica sacra, 1774.
2. KIESEWETTER, R.G. Schicksale und Beschaffenheit des weltlichen Gesanges vom frühen Mittelalter bis zu der Erfindung des dramatischen Styles und den Anfängen der Oper, Leipzig: 1841.
3. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, pp. 50, 237.

Recordings

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


Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003