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I' vegio in gran dòl mie vita stare

ballata by Niccolò da Perugia

Sources

London: British Library, Additional 29987, fol. 38 (2/1).

Facsimiles

1. The Manuscript London, British Museum Add. 29987, facsimile edition by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Musicological Studies and Documents 13.
2. SEARLE, Arthur. Music Manuscripts, London: The British Library, 1987, plate 5.

Editions

1. Italian Secular Music: Anonymous Madrigals and Cacce and the Works of Niccolò da Perugia, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1972. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century VIII, p. 132.
2. KELLY, Stephen K. The Works of Niccolò da Perugia, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1974.
3. GOZZI, Marco. [London, British Library 29987: Transcription and Commentary], 2 vols., dissertation, Cremona, Scuola di paleografica musicale, University of Pavia: 1984-1985.
4. GARFORTH, Constance C. The Lo Manuscript: A Trecento Collection, Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University: 1983.

Text Editions

CORSI, Giuseppe. Poesie musicali del Trecento, Bologna: Commissione per i testi di lingua, 1970, p. 115.

Text

I' vegio in gran dòl mie vita stare,
ché 'l ben, ch'i' ho, altru' mel convien dare.
Amor crudele, che m'ha' tu rimosso
d'ogni allegrezza e rivertit'a pianto..