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Venés a nueches sans detri; Vechi l'ermite

anonymous virelai.

Sources

Cambrai: Bibliothèque Municipale B. 1328 (1176), f. 16, fol. 16v (#26) (3/2).

Facsimiles

COUSSEMAKER, Edmond de. Histoire de l'harmonie au moyen-âge, Paris: Didron, 1852, plate XXXIV.

Text Editions

1. COUSSEMAKER, Edmond de. Histoire de l'harmonie au moyen-âge, Paris: Didron, 1852, no. 41.
2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), Vol. II, p. 88.
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. 73.
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. 155.

Literature

1. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Problems of dating in Ars nova and Ars subtilior', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, p. 291.
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. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.

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