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Joieux de cuer en seumellant estoye

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Sources

Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musèe Condè 564, fol. 58v (4/1).

Editions

1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 39.
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. 196.
3. 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. 161.

Literature

1. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), p. 214.
2. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.

Recordings

The Medieval Romantics, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1991): CDA66463.

Text

Joieux de cuer en seumellant estoye
quant je sentoie vostre tres douce alayne
et vo gent corps, ma dame soveraine,
qu'entre mes bras si doucement tenoye.

Je croy qu'onques creature humaine
n'eut tel bien, certes, come j'avoye.

Car sanz doulour et sanz pensee vaine
mon cuer estoyt rempli de toute joye.

Et a bon droit, quar quant a vous pensoye,
tres playsant flour, douce rose mondayne,
garde d'amours qui mon cuer trait et maine,
autre plaisir au monde ne vouloie.

Joieux de cuer en seumellant estoye
quant je sentoie vostre tres douce alayne
et vo gent corps, ma dame soveraine,
qu'entre mes bras si doucement tenoye