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Soit tart, tempre, mayn ou soir
anonymous virelai

Sources

Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria a.M.5.24 (Latino 568; olim IV.D.5), fol. 28v-29 (3/1) (Contratenor differs from F-Pn6771);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 63v (4/1);
Praha: Státní Knihovna CSSR - Universitní Knihovna XI E 9, fol. 250 (2/0) (Contrafactum);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 87v (Contrafactum, lost);
Vorau: Bibliothek des Augustiner Chorherrenstifts 380, fol. 87v (2/1) (Contrafactum).

Editions

1. Die Musikstücke des Prager Codex XI E 9, edited by Friedrich Kammerer, Augsburg: 1931, p. 141 (Pu XIE9).
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. 57.
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. 61.
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. 141 (Pn6771)., p. 143 (ModA).

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. 151-152., pp. 151-152.
2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), p. 213.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zitate in französischen Liedsätzen der Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musica Disciplina, XXVI (1972), p. 61.
4. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 107.
5. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.

Recordings

Lancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1992): Hyperion CDA66588.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003