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Je comence ma chançon; Et je feray li segons; [Soules viex]

Three-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Ivrea: Biblioteca Capitolare 115, fol. 61v-62 (3/2);
London: British Library, Additional 41667(I) (McVeigh fragment), fol. 27 (Motetus missing);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trèmoìlle), fol. 34v-35 (lost).

Editions

1. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), Vol. II, p. 162 (IV115).
2. French Secular Music. Virelais, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXI, p. 73 (IV115).

Literature

1. BORREN, Charles van den. Le manuscrit musical 222 C. 22 de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulè en 1870, et reconstituè d'après une copie d'Edmond de Coussemaker, Antwerp: E. Secelle, 1924, pp. 64-65.
2. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), pp. 125-126.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 266.