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A l'arme, a l'arme, sans sejour et sans demour
Four-voice virelai by Grimace

Sources

Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 55v (4/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 69 (4/1);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 67v (lost).

Editions

1. GASTOUÉ, Amédée. Actes du congrès d'histoire de l'art, Paris: 1925, Vol. III, p. 787.
2. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 72 (CH564).
3. 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. 72 (CH564, Pn6771).
4. 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. 140.

Literature

1. BORREN, Charles van den. Le manuscrit musical 222 C. 22 de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulé en 1870, et reconstitué d'après une copie d'Edmond de Coussemaker, Antwerp: E. Secelle, 1924, p. 117.
2. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die Anwendung der Diminution in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960), p. 7.
4. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Bemerkungen zum älteren französischen Repertoire des Codex Reina', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIV (1967), pp. 249-251.
5. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
6. WILKINS, Nigel. 'Virelai', The New Grove, XX (1980): 1-3.
7. LECLERCQ, F. 'Questions à propos d'un fragment récemment découvert d'une chanson du XIV siècle: une autre version de "Par maintes fois"' Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 200-201.
8. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.
9. YUDKIN, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989, pp. 563-567.
10. BERGER, Christian. Hexachord, Mensur und Textstruktur, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992, p. 209.

Recordings

1. Musiques Héraldiques, Vocal ensemble, Groupe des Instruments Anciens of Paris, directed by Roger Cotte: Pathé CPTC 2035.
2. Music of Mediaeval France 1200 - 1400 [Songs of Birds, Battles and Love, and the Flowering of the French Chanson], Deller Consort, Concentus Musicus Vienna, directed by Alfred Deller, Nicolaus Harnoncourt (1961): Bach Guild BG 70656 (mono BG 656).
3. The Late 14th Century Avant Garde, Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow (1973): EMI/HMV ASD 3621 (GB).
4. Transformations, Music for a While, directed by Richard Taruskin (1974): 1750 Arch Records 1753.
5. Ars Magis Subtiliter, Project Ars Nova (1989): New Albion Records NA 021 CD.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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