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ballata by Francesco Landini

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 162v (3/3); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 40 (3/3); San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. Av (2/-);
London: British Library, Additional 29987, fol. 75v-76 (3/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 116v-117 (3/3).

Facsimiles

1. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 393 (Fl87).
2. HARMAN, Alec. Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West. Vol I: Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Music, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 156 (Fl87).
3. The Manuscript London, British Museum Add. 29987, facsimile edition by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Musicological Studies and Documents 13, (Lo).
4. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 76 (FP).
5. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leonard Ellinwood, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1939, p. 249.
2. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 294.
3. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1958. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IV, p. 174.
4. GOZZI, Marco. [London, British Library 29987: Transcription and Commentary], 2 vols., dissertation, Cremona, Scuola di paleografica musicale, University of Pavia: 1984-1985.
5. GARFORTH, Constance C. The Lo Manuscript: A Trecento Collection, Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University: 1983.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 197.

Literature

1. FERRARI, S. Madrigali e ballate del secolo decimoquarto, Bologna: Zanichelli, 1903.
2. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 392, & example 53.
3. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'On the technique, origin and evolution of Italian Trecento music', Musical Quarterly, XLVII (1961), p. 56.
4. STINSON, John. 'The Trecento Vielle and its repertoire', Festschrift Jan Sedivka, Hobart: Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, 1982, p. 69.
5. D'ACCONE, Frank. 'Una nuova fonte dell' "Ars nova" italiana: il codice di San Lorenzo, 2111', Studi Musicali, XIII (1984): 3-31.
6. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.

Recordings

1. The Italian Trecento, Columbia University Collegium Musicum, directed by Richard Taruskin: Collegium Stereo JE 105.
2. Squarcialupi-Codex: Madrigals and Cacce from the Codex of Antonio Squarcialupi, Brussels Pro Musica Antiqua, directed by Safford Cape (1953): Archiv ARC 3003.
3. The Garden of Zephirus. Courtly Songs of the Early Fifteenth Century, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1984): Hyperion A66144.
4. The Garden of Zephyrus, Rogers Covey-Crump (Tenor), Andrew King (Tenor), Leigh Nixon (Tenor), Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1984): Hyperion CDA 66144.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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