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Ce qui soustient moy, m'onneur et ma vie
Two-voice rondeau by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 320 (2/1);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 843 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 478v (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 319 (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 132 (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 152 (2/1).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Erster Band: Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926, p. 62.
2. 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. 155.
3. Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), p. 18.
Text Editions
Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 573.
Literature
1. MACHABEY, Armand. Guillaume de Machault, 130?-1377: La vie et l'oeuvre musicale, 2 vols, Paris: Richard-Masse-Editeur, 1955. Bibliothèque d'études musicales, pp. 162-163.
2. 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.
3. DÖMLING, Wolfgang. Die mehrstimmigen Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais von Guillaume de Machaut: Untersuchungen zum musikalischen Satz, Tutzing: Schneider, 1970. Münchener Veröffentlichungen zur Musikgeschichte 16, p. 70.
4. SALOP, Arnold. 'The secular polyphony of Guillaume de Machaut', [chapter 2 of his] Studies on the History of Musical Style, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1971, p. 76.
5. HIRSHBERG, Jehoash. 'Hexachordal and modal structure in Machaut's polyphonic chansons', Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht, 1980.
6. 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.
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: le vray remède d'amour -- ballades, rondeaux, virelais, motets, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, directed by Dominique Vellard (1988): Harmonic Records H/CD 8825.
Text
Ce qui soustient moy, m'onneur et ma vie
Aveuc Amours, c'estes vous, douce dame.

Long, pres, toudis serez, quoi que nulz die.
Ce qui soustient moy, m'onneur et ma vie;
Et quant je vif par vous, douce anemie.
Qu'ains mieus que moy, bien dire doy, par ma'me:

Ce qui soustient moy, m'onneur et ma vie
Aveuc Amours, c'estes vous, douce dame.

Translation
That which sustains me, my honour and my life
With Love, is you, my dear lady.

Far and near, always you will be, whatever men say.
That which sustains me, my honour and my life;
And since I live by you, sweet enemy.
Whom I love more than myself, I may well say, by my soul:

That which sustains me, my honour and my life
With Love, is you, my dear lady.
Text revision and translation © Jennifer Garnham

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

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