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Ay las, quant je pans le biauté de m'amour

Three-voice anonymous rondeau

Sources

Lucca: Archivio di Stato 184 (Mancini Codex), fol. 87v-88 (3/1).

Facsimiles

The Lucca Codex. Codice Mancini. Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition, edited by John N das and Agostino Ziino, Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana editrice, 1990.

Editions

1. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1972. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/III, p. 79.
2. WILLIAMS, Carol J. The Mancini Codex: A Manuscript Study, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Adelaide), 3 vols., 1983, Vol. II, p. 130.
3. French Secular Music. Rondeaux and Miscellaneous Pieces, edited by Gordon K. Greene, with literary texts by Terence Scully, Monaco: Editions de Oiseau-Lyre, 1989. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXII, p. 42.

Literature

1. BONACCORSI, Alfredo. 'Un nuovo codice dell' Ars nova: Il codice Lucchese', Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Ser. 8, I/12 (1948), p. 603.
2. REANEY, Gilbert. 'Transposition and "key" signatures in late medieval music', Musica Disciplina, XXXIV (1979), p. 40.

Recordings

The study of love, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1992): Hyperion CDA66619.