Treziesme livre de chansons à quatre parties, Le Roy & Ballard, 1559

Full title

Treziesme livre de chansons nouvellement composées en Musique à quatre parties, par plusieurs autheurs, imprimées en quatre volumes

Projects

Costeley Online

Performing forces

Superius | Contratenor | Tenor | Bassus

Associated people

Adrian Le Roy - Music printer
Robert Ballard - Music printer

Publication place and date

Paris (France)
1559

Edition type

First edition

Reeditions

Tresieme livre de chansons à quatre parties d'Orlande de Lassus, Le Roy & Ballard, 1570 (1570)

Catalogues

BLRB 64
RISM B I, 1559-13

Digitisations

[F-Pn] France, Paris - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département de la musique
- RES-264: Open facsimile
- RES Vmf-13 (13): Open facsimile

[GB-Lbl] United Kingdom, London - The British Library
- K.11.e.3.(13.): Open facsimile

Format

4° oblong, 90 x 120 mm, 16 f.

Number of volumes

Description

Contains 18 works. These partbooks include a table of content on their last page (f. 16) and ascriptions in lower case above the beginning of the musical notation, and in capital letters as running titles of verso pages. The facing running titles of recto pages include the voice label in capital letters. An exception to this layout are the f. 11v-12, where the verso header has the voice label as running title and no running title on recto page.

Pattern of reeditions
1e édition en 1559 (BLRB 64). Réédition profondément remaniée en 1570 (BLRB 143), reprise en 1573 (BLRB 178): 11 chansons supprimées (1 d'Abran, 1 de Costeley, 3 de Bussi, 1 de Goudimel, 4 de Roussel, 1 de Lassus), 7 reprises (3 de Bussi, 1 de Lassus, 1 de Millot et 2 de Roussel) et 8 nouvelles insérées (5 de Lassus et 3 de Bertrand). Le dernier remaniement, en 1578 (BLRB 223), n'ajoute aucune nouvelle chanson; il réintroduit 2 chansons de Roussel parues dans la 1e édition et omises dans la 2e, et reprend 5 chansons conservées dans les deux états antérieurs et les 8 apparues dans la 2e édition. L'ensemble de ces trois éditions transmettent au total 26 chansons dont seulement 5 figurent dans les trois éditions.

Works

3 in database

[8] ff. 9-9v Nicolas Millot - Non tant par mal qu'en se moquant
[10] ff. 10v-11 Orlande de Lassus - Veoir est beaucoup, le taire encore plus
[12] ff. 11v-12 Guillaume Costeley - Ma douce fleur ma Marguerite
Only chanson without ascription in this publication which otherwise includes ascriptions both in lower case above the beginning of the musical notation and in capital letters as running titles in the header of all verso pages (except on this f. 11v, which has the voice label as running title, and the f. 12, without running title). Moreover, the Superius partbook has the word 'trio' printed at the place where an ascription might appear, in the upper left corner above the start of the musical notation, for this chanson and the two following chansons by Bussi, which are also in the form of strophic airs, with musical notation on the verso and the remaining verses on the recto. The Tenor partbook has no such indications. Since no Altus nor Bassus partbook could be checked, it is not clear if these 3 chansons are really transmitted for 3 voices in this publication, but their concordances transmit them for 4 voices.

[8] ff. 9-9v Nicolas Millot - Non tant par mal qu'en se moquant
[10] ff. 10v-11 Orlande de Lassus - Veoir est beaucoup, le taire encore plus
[12] ff. 11v-12 Guillaume Costeley - Ma douce fleur ma Marguerite
Only chanson without ascription in this publication which otherwise includes ascriptions both in lower case above the beginning of the musical notation and in capital letters as running titles in the header of all verso pages (except on this f. 11v, which has the voice label as running title, and the f. 12, without running title). Moreover, the Superius partbook has the word 'trio' printed at the place where an ascription might appear, in the upper left corner above the start of the musical notation, for this chanson and the two following chansons by Bussi, which are also in the form of strophic airs, with musical notation on the verso and the remaining verses on the recto. The Tenor partbook has no such indications. Since no Altus nor Bassus partbook could be checked, it is not clear if these 3 chansons are really transmitted for 3 voices in this publication, but their concordances transmit them for 4 voices.

Holding institutions

4 copies in 2 institutions

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Shelf mark

RES-264
Type

Music print in partbooks
Performing forces

Tenor
Digitised version

Open facsimile
Notes

Notice Catalogue BnF https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43111403n

Shelf mark

RES Vmf-13 (13)
Type

Music print in partbooks
Performing forces

Superius
Digitised version

Open facsimile
Notes

Notice Catalogue BnF https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb43111403n

Go to library website

Shelf mark

K.11.e.3.(13.)
Type

Music print in partbooks
Performing forces

Bassus | Superius | Tenor
Digitised version

Open facsimile
Notes

Notice EMO 2011: http://purl.org/rism/BI/1559/13

Shelf mark

K.2.b.4*.(13.)
Type

Music print in partbooks
Performing forces

Contratenor

Contributors

David Fiala - Project manager ; Scientific editor

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