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Questa fanciull', Amor, fallami pia

ballata by Francesco Landini

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Palatino 87 (Squarcialupi Codex), fol. 138 (3/2); Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Panciatichiano 26, fol. 22v (3/1);
Guardiagrele (Chieti): Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore 1, fol. 192v (Agnus Contrafactum);
Innsbruck: Universitätsbibliothek, MS. s.s. (Wolkenstein-Rodeneck Codex), fol. 28v (Contrafactum);
Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14274 (olim M.mus. 3232a), fol. 58v-59 (Contrafactum);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 70v (3/2); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 6771 (Reina Codex), fol. 85 (2/0);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 18 (Contrafactum)(lost);
Vienna: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 2777, fol. 30 (Contrafactum).

Facsimiles

1. PARRISH, Carl. The Notation of Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1957, plate LX (Pn6771).
2. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 66.
3. Il codice musicale Panciatichi 26 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1981, no. 42 (FP).
4. Il Codice Squarcialupi edited by F. Alberto GALLO, Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1992.

Editions

1. WOLF, Johannes. 'Musica fiorentina nel secolo XIV', La nuova musica, Appendice musicale I-III (1899,1900,1901), Vol. II, p. 218 (Fl87).
2. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leonard Ellinwood, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1939, p. 285 (Fl87).
3. REESE, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages, New York: W. W. Norton, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940, no. 115 (Fl87).
4. Der Squarcialupi-Codex Pal. 87 der Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana zu Florenz, edited by Johannes Wolf and H. Albrecht, Lippstadt: Kistner and Siegel, 1955, p. 234.
5. The Works of Francesco Landini, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1958. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century IV, p. 116.
6. Anthology of Medieval Music, edited by Richard H. Hoppin, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, no. 67.
7. FULLER, Sarah. The European Musical Heritage 800-1750, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
8. Italian Sacred and Ceremonial Music, edited by Kurt von Fischer and F. Alberto Gallo, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1987. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIII, p. 2 (Mbs3232a).
9. 46 pièces pour orgue, edited by F. Raugel, Paris.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 216.

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. 65-66, 191.
2. LUDWIG, F. 'Die geistliche nichtliturgische, weltliche einstimmige und die mehrstimmige Musik des Mittelalters bis zum Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts', Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, edited by G. Adler, vol. I, Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlag, 1924, p. 281.
3. ELLINWOOD, Leonard. 'Francesco Landini and his music', Musical Quarterly, XXII (1936), pp. 202-203.
4. REESE, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages, New York: W. W. Norton, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940, pp. 368, 406.
5. GÜNTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, p. 40.
6. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Kontrafakturen und Parodien italienischen Werke des Trecento und frühen Quattrocento', Annales musicologiques: moyen-âge et Renaissance, V (1957), p. 46.
7. CORSI, Giuseppe. 'Madrigali e ballate inedite del Trecento', Belfagor, XIV (1959), pp. 333, 337.
8. ROKSETH, Yvonne. 'The instrumental music of the Middle Ages and early sixteenth century', [chapter 12 of] The New Oxford History of Music, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham, London: Oxford University Press, 1960, p. 79, 423.
9. ELLINWOOD, Leonard. 'The Fourteenth Century in Italy', [chapter 2 of] The New Oxford History of Music. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham, London: Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 79-80.
10. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die Mensuralnotation der Ars Nova in Theorie und Praxis', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XIX-XX (1962), p. 17.
11. GHISI, Federico. 'Gli aspetti musicali della lauda fra il XIV e il XV secolo, prima metà', Natalicia Musicologica Knud Jeppesen, edited by Bjorn Hjelmborg and Soren Sorensen, Hafnia: W. Hansen, 1962, p. 54.
12. GÖLLNER, T. 'Landini's "Questa fanciulla" bei Oswald von Wolkenstein', Die Musikforschung, XVII (1964): 393-98.
13. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966), p. 80.
14. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Musica e società nel Trecento italiano', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo 1969, 1970, p. 26.
15. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Ancora sulle composizioni polifoniche di Guardiagrele. Aggiunte e precisazioni', Rivista italiana di musicologia, VIII (1973): 9-13.
16. GALLO, F. Alberto. Il Medioevo, vol. II, Turin: Edizioni di Torino, 1977. [English translation as Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985], pp. 75-76.
17. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, p. 460.
18. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 64-65, 69-70.
19. ARLT, Wulf. 'Instrumentalmusik im Mittelalter: Fragen der Rekonstruktioneiner schriftlosen Praxis', Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis, VII (1983), p. 46.
20. LECLERCQ, F. 'Questions à propos d'un fragment rècemment dècouvert 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, p. 204.

Recordings

1. Music of the Time of Boccaccio's Decameron, Musica Reservata, directed by John Beckett: Philips 802904.
2. Anthologie de la Musique d'Orgue des Primitifs à la Renaissance, Pierre Froidebise (organ): Ducretet-Thomson Duc 320131-3.
3. Three Centuries of Organ Music (Pathè no. 63), Andrè Marchal (organ): Pathè PAT 63.
4. Ecco la Primavera. Florentine Music of the 14th Century, Early Music Consort, directed by David Munrow (1969): Argo ZRG 642 (GB).
5. Francesco Landini 1325 - 1397, Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1973): EMI-Reflexe 1CO63-30-113 (GER).
6. A Tapestry of Music for the Black Prince and His Knights, St. George's Canzona, directed by John Sothcott (1978): Enigma K53571 (GB).

Text

Questa fanciulla, Amor, fallami pia,
che m'ha ferito 'l cor ne la tuo via.

Tu m'ha', fanciulla, sì d'amor percosso,
che solo 'n te pensando trovo posa.
El cor di me da me tu ha' rimosso
co gli ochi belli e la faccia gioiosa:
però al servo tuo deh sie piatosa:
merzé ti cheggio a la gran pena mia.

Se non soccorri a le dogliose pene,
il cor mi verrà men, che tu m'ha' tolto,
ché la mia vita non sente ma' bene,
se non mirando 'l tuo vezoso volto.
Da poi, fanciulla, che d'amor m'ha' involto,
priego ch'alquanto a me benigna sia