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[Bien] ay je caus' d'estre liés et joyeux

Three-voice ballade by Martinus Fabri

Sources

Innsbruck: Universitätsbibliothek, MS. s.s. (Wolkenstein-Rodeneck Codex), fol. 20 (Contrafactum);
Leiden: Universiteitsbibliotheek B.P.L. 2720, fol. 3v (3/1);
Vienna: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 2777, fol. 17 (Contrafactum).

Editions

1. WAGENAAR-NOLTHENIUS, Hèlène. 'De Leidse Fragmenten: Nederlandse Polifonie uit het einde der 14 de eeuw', Renaissance-Muziek 1400-1600. Donum Natalicium Renè Bernard Lenaerts, edited by Jozef Robijns, Leuven: Katholieke Univ., 1969, p. 311.
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. 48.
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. 54.

Literature

Die mehrstimmigen Lieder Oswalds von Wolkenstein, edited by I. Pelnar, 2 vols., Tutzing: 1982, p. 104.

Recordings

1. Guillaume de Machault. Balladen - Motetten - Rondeaus - Virelais, Capella Lipsiensis, directed by Dietrich Knothe (1971): Philips 6580 026.
2. [Guillaume de Machaut], Music for a While, directed by Richard Taruskin (1977): Arch Records 1750 S 1773.
3. Hommage à Machaut, Ars Cameralis, Prague (1978): Panton 8111 0056.
4. The Mirror of Narcissus: Songs by Guillaume de Machaut, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1983): Hyperion A66087 (GB).