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Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient
ballade by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

Bern: B�rgerbibliothek 218 (MachK), fol. 60v (2/1);
Cambridge: Magdalene College, Pepys Library 1594, fol. 25v (2/1);
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library M. 396 (text); Wildenstein Collection, fol. 111v (4/1);
Paris: Biblioth�que de l'Arsenal 5203 (olim 97 BF), fol. 67v (text); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 843 (text); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1584 (MachA), fol. 70v (4/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1585 (MachB), fol. 128v (4/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1586 (MachC), fol. 47v (2/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 9221 (MachE), fol. 32 (4/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 22545 (MachF), fol. 56v (4/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. fran�ais 6221, fol. 20 (text); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. fran�ais 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 68v (4/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. fran�ais 23190 (olim Serrant Ch�teau, ducs de la Tr�mo�lle), fol. 27 (lost).

Facsimiles

PARRISH, Carl. The Notation of Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1957, plate XLIX (Pn1586).

Editions

1. Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut. Volume II: Remede de Fortune, Le dit dou Lyon, Le dit de l'Alerion, texts edited by E. Hoepffner, music edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1911, p. 15 (appendix).
2. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Erster Band: Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & H�rtel, 1926, p. 99.
3. The Works of Guillaume de Machaut, Second Part, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century III, p. 140.

Text Editions

Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut. Volume II: Remede de Fortune, Le dit dou Lyon, Le dit de l'Alerion, texts edited by E. Hoepffner, music edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1911, p. 110.

Literature

1. MACHABEY, Armand. Guillaume de Machault, 130?-1377: La vie et l'oeuvre musicale, 2 vols, Paris: Richard-Masse-Editeur, 1955. Biblioth�que d'�tudes musicales, pp. 16-17.
2. 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, Chapter 4.4.
3. SWARTZ, Anne. 'A new chronology of the ballades of Machaut', Acta Musicologica, XLVI (1974): 192-207.
4. GALLO, F. Alberto. Il Medioevo, vol. II, Turin: Edizioni di Torino, 1977. [English translation as Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985], pp. 48-49.
5. HIRSHBERG, Jehoash. 'Hexachordal and modal structure in Machaut's polyphonic chansons', Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht, 1980.
6. LEGUY, Sylvette. 'Les proc�d�s de composition dans l'oeuvre de Machaut (� l'exclusion de la Messe)', Guillaume de Machaut, po�te et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 307-320.
7. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Contribution de la musicologie � la biographie et � la chronologie de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, po�te et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 95-116.

Recordings

1. The Art of Guillaume de Machaut, Ars Antiqua Paris, directed by Michel Sanvoisin (1974): Arion ARN 38252 (FRA)/ ARN 90814 (USA).
2. Guillaume de Machaut: 1. The Musical Art of Machaut. 2. Le Rem�de de Fortune. 3. Veoir Dit., Ensemble Guillaume de Machaut of Paris (1975-1977): Ad�s 7078 (3 discs).
3. The Mirror of Narcissus: Songs by Guillaume de Machaut, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1983): Hyperion A66087 (GB).

Text

Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient.
Je ne vous puis trop amer, ne chierir.
N'asses loer, si com il apartient.
Servir, doubter, honnourer, n'obeir;
Car le gracieus espoir.
Douce dame, que j'ay de vous veoir.
Me fais cent fois plus de bien et de joie.
Qu'en cent mille ans desservir ne porroie.

Cils dous espoirs en vie me soustient
Et me norrist en amoureus desir.
Et dedens moy met tout ce qui convient
Pour conforter mon cuer et resjoir;
N'il ne s'en part main ne soir;
Einsois me fait doucement recevoir
Plus des dous biens qu'Amours au siens ottroie.
Qu'en cent mille ans desservir ne porroie.

Et quant Espoir qui en mon cuer se tient
Fait dedens moy si grant joie venir.
Lonteins de vous, ma dame, s'il avient
Que vo biaute voie que moult desir.
Ma joie, si com j'espoir.
Ymaginer, penser, ne concevoir
Ne porroit nuls, car trop plus en aroie.
Qu'en cent mille ans desservir ne porroie.

Translation

Lady, from whom comes all my joy.
I cannot love or cherish you too much.
Or praise you enough, as is fitting.
Serve, respect, honour and obey;
For the gracious hope I have.
Sweet lady, of seeing you
Makes me one hundred times more happy and joyful
Than I could deserve in one hundred thousand years.

This sweet hope sustains my life
And feeds me in loving desire.
And within me puts all that is needed
To comfort my heart and give it joy;
Nor does it leave me morning or night.
Rather makes me sweetly receive
More of the sweet goods Love gives to her own
Than I could deserve in one hundred thousand years.

And when Hope who dwells in my heart
Makes such great joy rise within me.
Far from you, my lady, if it happens
That I see your beauty which I greatly desire.
My joy, as I hope.
No-one could imagine, think or conceive.
For there would be so much more of it
Than I could deserve in one hundred thousand years.
Text revision and translation © Jennifer Garnham

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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