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Fumeux fume par fumee

rondeau by Solage

Sources

Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musèe Condè 564, fol. 59 (3/1).

Facsimiles

French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, plate V.

Editions

1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 40.
2. 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. 200.
3. Norton Anthology of Western Music. Vol. I. Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, edited by Claude V. Palisca, Yale University: W. W. Norton, 1980, p. 87 [R Apel: FSM].
4. French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musèe Condè 564, Second Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIX, p. 165.
5. Five Ballades for the House of Foix, edited by Peter M. Lefferts, with text edition and commentary by Sylvia Huot, Newton Abbott: Antico Editions, 1989.
6. LEFFERTS, Peter M. '"Subtilitas" in the tonal language of "Fumeux fume", Early Music, XVI/2 (1988): 176-183.

Literature

1. PIRRO, A. La musique à Paris sous le règne de Charles VI (1380-1422), Strasbourg: 1930. Collection d'etudes musicologiques I, pp. 23-24.
2. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 33.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Unusual phenomena in the transmission of late fourteenth-century polyphonic music', Musica Disciplina, XXXVIII (1984), p. 103.
4. 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, pp. 229-268.
5. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.

Recordings

1. The Ars Nova: Vocal Music of 14-Century France and Italy, Capella Cordina, directed by Alejandro Planchart (1966): Expèriences Anonymes EA/EAS 83.
2. Recordings to accompany A History of Western Music and Norton Anthology of Western Music (compiled from other recordings, directed by Thomas Binkley, David Munrow, Denis Stevens
3. The Late 14th Century Avant Garde, Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow (1973): EMI/HMV ASD 3621 (GB).
4. Dufay and His Times, Syntagma Musicum, directed by Kees Otten (1974): Telefunken ER 6.35 257(2) (GER).
5. Codex Chantilly: airs de cour, Ensemble Organum, directed by Marcel Pèrès (1987): HMC 901252.
6. The Chantilly Codex, Ensemble Organum, directed by Marcel Pèrès (1987): Harmonia Mundi HMC 1252.
7. Ars Magis Subtiliter, Project Ars Nova (1989): New Albion Records NA 021 CD.
8. Febus Avant!, Huelgas Ensemble, directed by Paul van Nevel (1991): Sony Classical SK 48 195.

Text

Fumeux fume par fumee,
fumeuse speculacion.
Qu'antre fummet sa pensee
fumeux fume par fumee.

Quar fumer molt li agree
tant qu'il ait son entencion.
Fumeux fume par fumee
fumeuse speculacion

Translation

A quick-tempered person brews up out of vexation
brooding, futile speculation,
which puts his thoughts in a haze;
a quick-tempered person brews up out of vexation -

because it pleases him greatly to fume
until he gets his way.
A quick-tempered person brews up out of vexation
brooding, futile speculation.
Text revision and translation © Robyn Smith