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Douce dame, tant com vivray
rondeau by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 35 (text);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 843, fol. 202v (text), 245 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 209 (text), 481 (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 52 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1587 (olim 612), fol. 43v (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 17 (text); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 154 (2/1);
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, French MS 15, number 81 (text), n107 (text).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Erster Band: Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926, p. 68.
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. 163.
3. La Louange des Dames, edited by Nigel Wilkins, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973, p. 157 (Pn1584).
4. Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), p. 30.
Text Editions
Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 210.
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, p. 170.
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. POIRION, Daniel. Le poète et le prince: L'evolution du lyrisme courtois de Guillaume de Machaut à Charles d'Orléans, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1965, p. 69.
4. HIRSHBERG, Jehoash. 'Hexachordal and modal structure in Machaut's polyphonic chansons', Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht, 1980.
5. REANEY, Gilbert. 'La tonalité des ballades et des rondeaux de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, p. 300.
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. [Guillaume de Machaut], Illinois Collegium Musicum, Thomas Binkley (lute), directed by George Hunter (1956): Westminster XWN 18166.
2. The Art of Guillaume de Machaut, Ars Antiqua Paris, directed by Michel Sanvoisin (1974): Arion ARN 38252 (FRA)/ ARN 90814 (USA).
Text
Douce dame, tant com vivray
Sera mes cuers a vo devis.

Car mis en vos laz mon vivre ay.
Douce dame, tant com vivray.

Pour un dous regart que vi vray.
Naissant de vo gracieus vis.

Douce dame, tant com vivray
Sera mes cuers a vo devis.

Translation
Sweet lady, so long as I live
My heart will be at your disposal.

For I have put my life in your snare.
Sweet lady, so long as I live.

For a sweet glance which I truly saw
Springing from your comely face.

Sweet lady, so long as I live
My heart will be at your disposal.
Text revision and translation © Jennifer Garnham

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

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