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Se vous n'estes pour mon guerredon nee
virelai by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

Cambrai: Bibliothèque Municipale B. 1328 (1176), ff.8-15, fol. 13v (#29) (4/1) (Triplum incomplete);
Florence: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 60 (3/1);
Gent: Rijksarchief, Varia D.3360 (Abbey Ter Haeghen), fol. 3 (Tenor and Contratenor);
Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria a.M.5.24 (Latino 568; olim IV.D.5), fol. 6v, 35 (3/1);
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library M. 396, fol. 214v (2/1); Wildenstein Collection, fol. 318 (2/1);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 843 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 477v (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 317 (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1586 (MachC), fol. 202 (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 134 (3/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 151 (2/1);
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, French MS 15, number 181 (text);
Praha: Státní Knihovna CSSR - Universitní Knihovna XI E 9, fol. 257v (Tenor and Contratenor);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 73 (lost).

Facsimiles

1. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 411 (MOe5.24).
2. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, edited by Friedrich Blume, 16 vols., Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter, 1949 ff, p. 403 (Fn26).
3. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, p. 427 (NYpm396).
4. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 110 (FP).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Erster Band: Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926, p. 56.
2. Die Musikstücke des Prager Codex XI E 9, edited by Friedrich Kammerer, Augsburg: 1931, p. 154 (Pu XIE9).
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. 146.
4. Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), p. 8.
5. Anthology of Medieval Music, edited by Richard H. Hoppin, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, no. 63.
Text Editions
Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 571.
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. 127-128, 199.
2. GENNRICH, Friedrich. 'Zur Machaut-Forschung', Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, L (1930), p. 356.
3. MACHABEY, Armand. Guillaume de Machault, 130?-1377: La vie et l'oeuvre musicale, 2 vols, Paris: Richard-Masse-Editeur, 1955. Bibliothèque d'études musicales, p. 157.
4. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Florenz C. Codex Palatino Panciatichiano 26 (FP)', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, IV (1955): 401-405.
5. GÜNTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, Chapter 4.2.
6. REANEY, Gilbert. 'Guillaume de Machaut: lyric poet', Music and Letters, XXXIX (1958), p. 43.
7. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), p. 212.
8. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, p. 428.
9. HIRSHBERG, Jehoash. 'Hexachordal and modal structure in Machaut's polyphonic chansons', Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht, 1980.
10. SNIZKOVA, Jitka. 'Les traces de Guillaume de Machaut dans les sources musicales de Prague', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 71-73.
11. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Contribution de la musicologie à la biographie et à la chronologie de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 95-116.
12. STROHM, Reinhard. 'The Ars nova fragments of Gent', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, XXXIV (1984), p. 116.
Text
Se vous n'estes pour mon guerredon nee.
Dame, mar vi vo doulz regart riant.

Jamais ne mieus joie e guerredonnee.
Se vous n'estes pour mon guerredon nee;
Car par vous m'iert la grief guerre donnee
Qui me fera morir en guerriant.

Se vous n'estes pour mon guerredon nee.
Dame, mar vi vo doulz regart riant.

Translation
If you were not born for my reward.
Lady, in an evil hour I saw your sweet laughing eyes.

Never is better joy granted.
If you were not born for my reward;
For by you sad strife will come to me
Which will make me die struggling.

If you were not born for my reward.
Lady, in an evil hour I saw your sweet laughing eyes.
Text revision and translation © Jennifer Garnham

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

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