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Lay de plour: Qui bien aimme
by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

Bern: B�rgerbibliothek 218 (MachK), fol. 45 (text);
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library M. 396 (?text); Wildenstein Collection, fol. 87v (1/1);
Paris: Biblioth�que de l'Arsenal 5203 (olim 97 BF), fol. 42 (text); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 843, fol. 48 (text), 221v (text); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1584 (MachA), fol. 410v (1/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1585 (MachB), fol. 104v (1/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 1586 (MachC), fol. 187 (1/1); Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds fran�ais 9221 (MachE), fol. 57 (1/1).

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. 74.
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. 90.

Text Editions

Guillaume de Machaut: po�sies lyriques, 2 vols., edited by V. Chichmaref, Paris: 1909, p. 459.

Literature

1. GENNRICH, Friedrich. 'Zur Machaut-Forschung', Zeitschrift f�r romanische Philologie, L (1930), p. 356.
2. 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. 120-121, 126.
3. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The "lais" of Guillaume de Machaut and their background', Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, LXXXII (1955-1956), p. 30.
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. 'Chronologie und Stil der Kompositionen Guillaume de Machauts', Acta Musicologica, XXXV (1963), p. 100.
6. WILLIAMS, Sarah Jane. 'An author's role in fourteenth century book production: Guillaume de Machaut's "livre o� je met toutes mes choses"', Romania, XC (1969), p. 452.
7. WILKINS, Nigel. 'Guillaume de Machaut, 1300-1377', Consort, XXXIII/2 (1977), p. 219.
8. FALLOWS, David. 'Lai', The New Grove, X (1980): 364-376.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. G�nther and L. Finscher, Kassel: B�renreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.

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