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ballade by Matteo da Perugia

Sources

Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria a.M.5.24 (Latino 568; olim IV.D.5), fol. 34v (3/1).

Editions

1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 2.
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. 96.
3. French Secular Music. Ballades and Canons, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XX, p. 56.

Literature

1. FANO, Fabio. 'Origini della cappella musicale del duomo di Milano. Il primo maestro di cappella: Matteo da Perugia (1402-16)', Rivista musicale italiana, LV (1953), p. 21.
2. MACHABEY, Armand. Guillaume de Machault, 130?-1377: La vie et l'oeuvre musicale, 2 vols, Paris: Richard-Masse-Editeur, 1955. Bibliothèque d'ètudes musicales, p. 97.
3. 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., pp. 58-59.
4. WILLIAMS, Sarah Jane. 'An author's role in fourteenth century book production: Guillaume de Machaut's "livre où je met toutes mes choses"', Romania, XC (1969), pp. 438-439.
5. WILLIAMS, Sarah J. 'The lady, the lyrics and the letters', Early Music, V/4 (1977), p. 467.

Recordings

The Service of Venus and Mars: Music for the Knights of the Garter, 1340-1440, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1986): Hyperion A66238.