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Lay de confort: S'onques douleureusement
by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

Bern: B�rgerbibliothek 218 (MachK), fol. 128? (text);
New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 253v (3/3);
Paris: Biblioth�que de l'Arsenal 5203 (olim 97 BF), fol. 141v (text)(lost); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 843, fol. 230v (text); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1584 (MachA), fol. 399 (3/3); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1585 (MachB), fol. 251v (3/3); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 9221 (MachE), fol. 121 (3/3); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 22546 (MachG), fol. 94v (3/3);
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, French MS 15, number 182 (text).

Editions

1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Vierter Band: Messe und Lais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig and completed posthumously by Heinrich Besseler, Leipzig: Breitkopf & H�rtel, 1954, p. 54.
2. The Works of Guillaume de Machaut, First Part, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century II, p. 52.

Text Editions

Guillaume de Machaut: po�sies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 415.

Literature

1. GENNRICH, Friedrich. 'Zur Machaut-Forschung', Zeitschrift f�r romanische Philologie, L (1930), p. 355.
2. MACHABEY, Armand. 'Guillaume de Machault'. La revue musicale, XII (1931), p. 331.
3. 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. 119, 122-126.
4. 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 4.5.
5. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Die Mensuralnotation der Ars Nova in Theorie und Praxis', Archiv f�r Musikwissenschaft, XIX-XX (1962), pp. 21-22.
6. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Chronologie und Stil der Kompositionen Guillaume de Machauts', Acta Musicologica, XXXV (1963), pp. 97, 112.
7. POP, Rodica. 'Elemente ale gindirii functionale prezente in creatia lui Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)', Lucrari de Muzicologie, II (1967), p. 5.
8. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, pp. 408, 480.
9. FALLOWS, David. 'Lai', The New Grove, X (1980): 364-376.
10. 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.
11. GAGNEPAIN, Bernard. 'La musique en France a l'arriv�e de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, po�te et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, p. 275.
12. 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.
13. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbez�ge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. G�nther and L. Finscher, Kassel: B�renreiter, 1984, p. 263.
14. REANEY, Gilbert. 'A consideration of the relative importance of words and music in composition from the 13th to the 15th century', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: B�renreiter, 1984, p. 189.

Recordings

Guillaume de Machault, 'Le lay de confort', Little Consort & Frans Br�ggen (1990): Channel Classics CCS 0390.

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