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A l'aventure va Gauvain

Three-voice rondeau by Johannes Cesaris

Sources

Oxford: Bodleian Library, MS Canonici Miscellaneous 213, fol. 109v-110 (3/3).

Editions

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Cesaris, Johannes', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, II (1952), p. 987.
2. Early Fifteenth Century Music, edited by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1955. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 11/I, p. 21.

Literature

1. DANNEMANN, Erna. Die spätgotische Musiktradition in Frankreich und Burgund vor dem Auftreten Dufays, Strasbourg: 1936. Sammlung musikwissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen 22, p. 37.
2. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
3. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.

Recordings

1. Musiques Hèraldiques, Vocal ensemble, Groupe des Instruments Anciens of Paris, directed by Roger Cotte: Pathè CPTC 2035.
2. Music of Mediaeval France 1200 - 1400 [Songs of Birds, Battles and Love, and the Flowering of the French Chanson], Deller Consort, Concentus Musicus Vienna, directed by Alfred Deller, Nicolaus Harnoncourt (1961): Bach Guild BG 70656 (mono BG 656).
3. The Late 14th Century Avant Garde, Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow (1973): EMI/HMV ASD 3621 (GB).
4. Transformations, Music for a While, directed by Richard Taruskin (1974): 1750 Arch Records 1753.
5. Ars Magis Subtiliter, Project Ars Nova (1989): New Albion Records NA 021 CD.