Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Montchenu, Jean de, active 1460-1496.

Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Standardized Title:

Chansonnier cordiforme.

Language:

French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Italian

Subjects (All):

Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.

Music.

Polyphonic chansons.

Part songs, Italian--15th century.

Part songs, Italian.

Genre:

Polyphonic chansons.

Notated music.

Facsimiles.

Physical Description:

1 choir book (68, that is, 136 pages) : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Title on case: Recueil de chansons

Place of Publication:

Valencia : Vicent García Editores, S.A., 2007.

Language Note:

Middle French and Italian words.

Notes:

Title from colophon.

Facsimile edition of the 15th century (ca. 1460-1477), heart-shaped Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu (Ms. Occ. Rothschild 2973) housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Polyphonic chansons for 2-4 voices.

Issued in leather case (23 cm.)

Contains French and Italian secular pieces by or attributed to Barbingant, Fedé, Bedingham, Dufay, Dunstable, Binchois, Frye, Busnois, Caron, Cornago, Ghizeghem, Morton, Ockeghem, Vincenet and others.

One of 1380 numbered copies signed by a notary.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.

Cited in:

Census-catalogue of manuscript sources of polyphonic music 1400-1550, v. 3, p. 35.

ISBN:

9788487988943

8487988946

OCLC:

229132432