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Merce o morte

attributed to Johannes Ciconia

Sources

Bologna: Biblioteca Universitaria 2216, fol. 51 (2/2);
Lucca: Archivio di Stato 184 (Mancini Codex), fol. 52v (3/?);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 4917, fol. 18v-19 (2/2);
Pistoia: Archivium Capituli Pistoriensis B 3 5, fol. IVv (2/1) (incomplete).

Facsimiles

1. GENNRICH, Friedrich. Abriss der Mensuralnotation des XIV und der ersten Hälfte des XV Jahrhunderts, Nieder-Modau: 1948. Musikwissenschaftliche Studienbibliothek 3-4, p. 59.
2. Il codice musicale 2216 della Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna. Prima parte, facsimile edition by F. Alberto Gallo, Bologna: Forni, 1968. Monumenta lyrica medii aevi italica III. Mensurabilia 3, p. 101.
3. The Lucca Codex. Codice Mancini. Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition, edited by John N das and Agostino Ziino, Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana editrice, 1990.

Editions

1. GHISI, Federico. 'Italian Ars nova music, the Perugia and Pistoia fragments of the Lucca Codex, and other unpublished early fifteenth century sources', Musica Disciplina, I/3 (1946), p. 17 (PSac5).
2. NEMETH, George L. The Secular Music of Johannes Ciconia, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University: 1977, p. 208 (Pn4917).
3. Italian Secular Music, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1978. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XI, p. 89 (Pn4917).
4. The Works of Johannes Ciconia, edited by Margaret Bent and Anne Hallmark, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1985. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXIV, p. 152 (PSac5, Pn4917).
5. The Lucca Codex. Codice Mancini. Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition, edited by John N das and Agostino Ziino, Lucca: Libreria musicale italiana editrice, 1990.

Literature

1. BONACCORSI, Alfredo. 'Un nuovo codice dell' Ars nova: Il codice Lucchese', Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Ser. 8, I/12 (1948), pp. 607-608.
2. DISERTORI, Benvenuto. La frottola nella storia della musica, Cremona: Athenaeum Cremonense, 1954.
3. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The Middle Ages', [in] A History of Song, edited by Denis Stevens, 2nd edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1970, p. 61.
4. ZIINO, Agostino. 'Ripetizioni di sillabe e parole nella musica profana italiana del Trecento e del primo Quattrocento', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 93-120.
5. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.

Recordings

Johannes Ciconia, Las Huelgas Ensemble, directed by Paul van Nevel (1980): Musique en Wallonie 80040-44 (set).