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La harpe de melodie
virelai by Jacob Senleches

Sources

Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 43v (3/1);
Chicago: Newberry Library 54.1, fol. 10 (3/1).

Facsimiles

1. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, cover.
2. SEEBASS, Tilman. 'The visualisation of music through pictorial imagery and notation in late mediaeval France', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1983,pp. 19-34.

Editions

1. JOSEPHSON, Nors S. 'Vier Beispiele der Ars Subtilior', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXVII (1970), p. 54 (CH564).
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. 176 (Cn54.1).
3. JOSEPHSON, Nors S. 'Die Konkordanzen zu "En nul estat" und "La harpe de melodie"', Die Musikforschung, XXV (1972), p. 295.
4. Anthology of Medieval Music, edited by Richard H. Hoppin, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, no. 69.
5. 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. 56.

Literature

1. PAGÉS, Amédée. La poésie française en Catalogne du XIIIe siècle à la fin du XIVe, Paris: 1936, p. 60.
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zur Biographie einiger Komponisten der Ars Subtilior', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXI (1964), p. 196., p. 196.
3. JOSEPHSON, Nors S. 'Vier Beispiele der Ars Subtilior', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXVII (1970): 41-58.
4. JOSEPHSON, Nors S. 'Die Konkordanzen zu "En nul estat" und "La harpe de melodie"', Die Musikforschung, XXV (1972): 292-299, , pp. 292-299.
5. APEL, Willi. 'La harpe de melodie', Scritti in Onore di Luigi Ronga, Milan and Naples: 1973, pp. 27ff.
6. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The part played by instruments in the music of Guillaume de Machaut', Studi Musicali, VI (1977), p. 7.
7. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, pp. 486-487.
8. SEEBASS, Tilman. 'The visualisation of music through pictorial imagery and notation in late mediaeval France', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1983, pp. 28-30.
9. NEWES, Virginia. 'Chace, caccia, fuga: the convergence of French and Italian traditions', Musica Disciplina, XLI (1987), pp. 37-38.
10. YUDKIN, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989, pp. 567-569.

Recordings

1. Ce Diabolic Chant: Ballades, Rondeaus & Virelais of the Late 14th Century, The Medieval Ensemble of London, directed by Peter Davies & Timothy Davies (1983): Oiseau-Lyre DSDL 704 (GB).
2. Codex Chantilly: airs de cour, Ensemble Organum, directed by Marcel Pérès (1987): HMC 901252.
3. The Chantilly Codex, Ensemble Organum, directed by Marcel Pérès (1987): Harmonia Mundi HMC 1252.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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