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Fortune, faulce parverserondeau by Matheus de Sancto Johanne SourcesChantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 59v (4/1);Ivrea: Biblioteca Capitolare 115, fol. 21 (4/1). FacsimilesPROFESSIONE, A. Inventario dei manoscritti della Biblioteca Capitolare di Ivrea, rev. ed. 1967.Editions1. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), Vol. II, p. 126 (IV115).2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I, p. 138 (IV115). 3. French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564, Second Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIX, p. 167. Literature1. CLERCX, Suzanne. 'Johannes Ciconia et la chronologie des manuscrits italiens, Mod. 568 et Lucca (Mn)', Les Colloques de Wégimont II, 1955, Paris: Société d'Edition "Les belles lettres", 1959, p. 113.2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), pp. 223, 224. 3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Johannes Vaillant', Speculum Musicae Artis: Festgabe für Heinrich Husmann zum 60. Geburtstag, Munich: 1970, pp. 182-183. 4. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Problems of dating in Ars nova and Ars subtilior', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, p. 293. 5. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268. Recordings1. The Garden of Zephirus. Courtly Songs of the Early Fifteenth Century, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1984): Hyperion A66144.2. The Garden of Zephyrus, Gill Ross (Soprano), Margaret Philpot (contralto), Rogers Covey-Crump (Tenor), Leigh Nixon (Tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (Tenor), Andrew King (Tenor), Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1984): Hyperion CDA 66144. TextFortune, faulce parverse.versT m'as en grant martire; taire si m'es[t] trop adverse. fortune, faulce perverse. Tu me fiers a la traverse. traversement, si puis dire: Fortune, fause perverse. versT m'as en grant martire. TranslationFortune, false, contrary.you have turned me upside down, causing me great suffering. Silence is indeed really contrary to my liking. Fortune, false, contrary. You strike me a side-blow. like an enemy, thus may I say: Fortune, false, contrary. you have turned me upside down, causing me great suffering. Text revision and translation © Robyn Smith |
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