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Quant je ne voy ma dame n'oy
rondeau by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 141 (2/1); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 66v (text), 154 (3/1).

Facsimiles

PARRISH, Carl. The Notation of Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1957, plate XLVIII (Pn9221).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Erster Band: Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1926, p. 69.
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. 164.
3. La Louange des Dames, edited by Nigel Wilkins, Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1972, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973, p. 158 (Pn22546).
4. Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), p. 32.
Text Editions
Guillaume de Machaut: poésies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 576.
Literature
1. MACHABEY, Armand. 'Guillaume de Machault'. La revue musicale, XII (1931), p. 338.
2. 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. 170-171.
3. 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.
4. REANEY, Gilbert. 'La tonalité des ballades et des rondeaux de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, p. 296.
5. 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 (c.1300 - 1377). La Messe de Nostre Dame. 9 Weltliche Werke, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and soloists, directed by August Wenzinger (1969): Archiv-IMS 2533 054 (INT).
2. Lancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1992): Hyperion CDA66588.
Text
Quant je ne voy ma dame n'oy.
Je ne voy riens qui ne m'anoye.

Mes cuers font en moy comme noy
Quant je ne voy ma dame n'oy.

N'onques tel mal, par m'ame, n'oy
Pour mon oueil que en plour me noie.

Quant je ne voy ma dame n'oy.
Je ne voy riens qui ne m'anoye.

Translation
When I do not see or hear my lady
I see nothing which does not displease me.

My heart within me melts like snow
When I do not see or hear my lady.

Nor did I ever, by my soul, feel such ill
Because of my eye which drowns me in tears.

When I do not see or hear my lady.
I see nothing which does not displease me.
Text revision and translation © Jennifer Garnham

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

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