Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms Magl. XIX 176 Chansons of great importance, unica of very high quality of the generation of Dufay and English provenance. Collected around 1480. Very close […]

This very fine chansonnier of French provenance around the years 1480-90 is almost an antology of chansons by Agricola and Hayne van Ghizeghem. Recent scholarship attributes its collection to Anne […]

This chansonnier was probably created in Ferrara for the Este family. It dates from around 1480 to 1490. It has not a single text and is thus conceived as an […]

Johannes Martini (ca. 1440-ca. 1497) was trained in Flanders and worked mostly in Ferrara and Milan. The most important sources of his secular work are Casanatense and Florence 229. His […]

The codices Basevi and Casanatense and the prints in Canti C and Odhecaton provide outstanding examples of purely instrumental fantasias in a quite modern style. I think it very likely […]

This little song book comprises only six chansons of very high quality. They form an inner story with rich intertextual relations. It was collected around 1500. All rights remain with […]

This source from before 1498 was prepared for Louis d’Orléans. It is an extremely important source for Compere’s chansons as it comprises several unica of this composer. All rights remain […]

Since Ludwig Finschers path breaking edition Comperes works were awaiting a new edition with the knowledge of new sources and work on parallel sources. All rights remain with the editor […]

The so called Lorraine chansonnier belonged to Antoine, duke of Lorraine and contains repertoire of the court of Louis XII. Many known chansons are by Agricola, Compere and van Ghizeghem. […]

In the municipal archive in Brno (Ms 15/4) a sensational find of a mass collection has brought to light a new masse by Brumel, “A Sex Vocum”, of highest quality. […]