Three French songs from the late 14th century
Subtitle: for voice & 2 or 3 instruments
By: Edited by Nigel Wilkins
Contributors: Grimace, active 1350-1375; Musée Condé. Bibliothèque; Cambrai (France). Bibliothèque municipale
Publisher: Antico Edition
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Newton Abbot]
Language: fre
Subjects: Songs (Low voice) with instrumental ensemble; Vocal duets with instrumental ensemble; Polyphonic chansons; Scores and parts; French Songs; Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
Other titles: Codex Reina.; Quiconques veut d'amors joir.; French songs from the late 14th century.; Soit tart, tempre, main ou soir.
Notes: Parts for triplum, cantus, contratenor & tenor.

Cover title.

"A contralto might take the vocal line ... but a tenor or counter-tenor is preferable."

The 1st work may be sung as a duet.

English translations of the texts printed as footnotes.

"All three songs are found without the triplum part in some sources: it is therefore optional."
Table of contents: title: Alarme, alarme / Grimace (edited from mss Paris, Bibl. Nat. nouv. acq. fr. 6771 and Chantilly, Musée Condé 564); title: Soit tart, tenpre, main ou soir / Anon. (edited from Paris, Bibl. Nat. nouv. acq. fr. 6771); title: Quiconques veut d'amours joir / Anon. (edited from Cambrai, Bibliothèque Communale, ms. 1328 (1176)).