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Sources

Cambrai: Biblioth�que Municipale B. 1328 (1176), ff.8-15, fol. 11v (4/2) (largely illegible);
Chantilly: Biblioth�que du Mus�e Cond� 564, fol. 55 (4/2);
Mons: collection priv�e F. Leclercq, fol. verso (2/1);
Paris: Biblioth�que Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. fran�ais 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 62v (4/2).

Facsimiles

1. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'The manuscript Paris, Bibl. nat., nouv. acq. fr�. 6771 (Codex Reina = PR)', Musica Disciplina, XI (1957): 38-78.
2. LECLERCQ, F. 'Questions � propos d'un fragment r�cemment d�couvert d'une chanson du XIV si�cle: une autre version de "Par maintes fois"' Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: B�renreiter, 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, Mus�e Cond� 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 f�r Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.
2. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Die Anwendung der Diminution in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047', Archiv f�r Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960), p. 7.
3. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Zur Biographie einiger Komponisten der Ars Subtilior', Archiv f�r Musikwissenschaft, XXI (1964), p. 178., p. 178.
4. G�NTHER, Ursula. 'Bemerkungen zum �lteren franz�sischen Repertoire des Codex Reina', Archiv f�r 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 � propos d'un fragment r�cemment d�couvert d'une chanson du XIV si�cle: une autre version de "Par maintes fois"' Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: B�renreiter, 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. G�nther and L. Finscher, Kassel: B�renreiter, 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) .

Content Approved by: MMDB Director
Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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