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Three-voice ballata by Johannes Ciconia

Sources

Lucca: Archivio di Stato 184 (Mancini Codex), fol. 84 (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. GHISI, Federico. 'Italian Ars nova music, the Perugia and Pistoia fragments of the Lucca Codex, and other unpublished early fifteenth century sources', Musica Disciplina, I/3 (1946), p. 10.
2. CLERCX, Suzanne. Johannes Ciconia: Un musicien liègois et son temps, 2 vols., Brussels: Palais des Acadèmies, 1960, Vol. II, p. 71.
3. NEMETH, George L. The Secular Music of Johannes Ciconia, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University: 1977, p. 215.
4. WILLIAMS, Carol J. The Mancini Codex: A Manuscript Study, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Adelaide), 3 vols., 1983, Vol. II, p. 119.
5. The Works of Johannes Ciconia, edited by Margaret Bent and Anne Hallmark, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1985. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXIV, p. 136.

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. 587.
2. PIRROTTA, Nino and Ettore LI GOTTI. 'Il Codice di Lucca. III. Il repertorio musicale', Musica Disciplina, V (1951), p. 132.
3. BAUMANN, Dorothea. Die dreistimmige italienische Lied-Satztechnik im Trecento, Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 1979. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlung no. 64, passim.

Recordings

1. Johannes Ciconia (1335 - 1411), Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1972): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-102 (GER).
2. Johannes Ciconia, Las Huelgas Ensemble, directed by Paul van Nevel (1980): Musique en Wallonie 80040-44 (set).