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Sources

Cambrai: Bibliothèque Municipale B. 1328 (1176), ff.8-15, fol. 11v (4/2) (largely illegible);
Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 55 (4/2);
Mons: collection privée F. Leclercq, fol. verso (2/1);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 62v (4/2).

Facsimiles

1. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'The manuscript Paris, Bibl. nat., nouv. acq. frç. 6771 (Codex Reina = PR)', Musica Disciplina, XI (1957): 38-78.
2. 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, plate 1 (B-ML).

Editions

1. A Fourteenth-Century Repertory from the Codex Reina, edited by Nigel Wilkins, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1966. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 36, p. 55.
2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), Vol. II, p. 38 (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. 164 (Pn6771, CH564).
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. 137.

Literature

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die Anwendung der Diminution in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960), p. 7.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zur Biographie einiger Komponisten der Ars Subtilior', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXI (1964), p. 178., p. 178.
4. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Bemerkungen zum älteren französischen Repertoire des Codex Reina', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIV (1967), pp. 246-247.
5. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), pp. 147-150.
6. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
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.198-200.
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.

Recordings

1. French Chansons of the Fourteenth Century, Instrumental Ensemble, directed by Guillaume de Van (1953): Anthologie Sonore AS 110.
2. The Late 14th Century Avant Garde, Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow (1973): EMI/HMV ASD 3621 (GB) .

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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