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Helas! merci, merci, pour Dieu merci

Two-voice rondeau by Matteo da Perugia

Sources

Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria a.M.5.24 (Latino 568; olim IV.D.5), fol. 39v-40 (2/1).

Editions

1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 20.
2. FANO, Fabio. Le origini e il primo maestro di cappella: Matteo da Perugia. Part 1 of La cappella musicale del duomo di Milano (with G. Cesari), Milan: Ricordi, 1956. Instituzioni e monumenti dell'arte musicale italiana, nuov. ser. 1., p. 340.
3. 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. 122.
4. 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. 19.

Literature

COX, Bobby Wayne. 'Pseudo-augmentation in the manuscript Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Q15 (BL)', Journal of Musicology, 1 (1982), pp. 438-439.

Recordings

Matteo da Perugia: Secular Works, The Medieval Ensemble of London, directed by Peter Davies & Timothy Davies (1979): Florilegium DSLO 577 (GB).