Landini Francesco

THE MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA
PUBLICATION No. 36
(Studies and Documents, No. jj
THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI
I.
The Miniature of Francesco Landini in the

Squarcialupi Codex
(S. 121v).
THE WORKS OF
FRANCESCO LANDINI
EDITED BV
LEONARD ELLINWOOD
With Textual Collation by William A. McLaughlin

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
*945
The publication of this book was made possible by grants of

funds to the Academy from the Carnegie Corporation of New
York, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the
Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester.
COPYMGHT
BY

">39
Lithoprinted in U.S A.
EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.

ANN
ARBOR.
1945
M I C H I G A N
To
Barbara Duncan
Librarian
of the Sibley Musical Library
in appreciation of
many kindnesses
PREFACE
With this edition of the works of Francesco Landini it is hoped that
the composer may cease to be the mythological figure he has appeared in the past.
By making Francesco's vorks available to the student in a collated transcription
of the manuscript sources, it is my further hope to replace previous speculations
regarding many aspects of fourteenth-century music with the music itself, without
distortion, in an edition from which deductions may be drawn with a greater degree
of accuracy than has hitherto been achieved.
This work has been made possible by the splendid cooperation of the
European libraries (referred to in Section III of the Introduction) in the
furnishing of complete photostatic copies of all manuscripta concerned, by the
excellent services of the Sibley Musical Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, in securing the materials of the Bibliography, and by the
courtesy of the Cornell University Library, which provided the materials on
trecento Italian literature from its distinguished collection.
The preparation of the verses is the work of V. A. McLaughlin, Associate
Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Michigan, to whom I am indebted for an exhaustive collation of the texts.
Finally, I desire to express my gratitude to the Mediaeval Academy of
America, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Eastman School of
Music for generous contributions toward the publication of the work.
Leonard Ellinwood
East Lansing, Michigan
May, 1939
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

The reception and distribution this work has received has been most
gratifying to all persons concerned. That a second printing should be required
in spite of the limitations imposed by the war augurs well for musical scholarship in America.
I am grateful to the Mediaeval Academy of America for making the second
edition possible. I am also indebted to Professors Manfred Bukofzer, Hans David,
and Ettore Li Gotti for suggestions which have been incorporated below. The
changes which have been made consist of minor emendations in the introduction
and a few bibliographical additions. The only transcription which has been altered is no. 10.
L. E.
Library of Congress
June, 1945.
vii
CONTENTS
Page
Introduction
I. Early Italian Polyphony
II. Francesco Landini
III. Manuscript Sources
IV. The Notation
V. The Musical Forms
VI. The Musical Style
VII. The Role of Instruments
VIII. The System of Transcription
xi
xiii
xvii
xxi
xxv
xxx
xxxviii
xlii
The Works of Francesco Lanaini

Two-part Madrigals
Three-part Madrigals
The Pescha
Two-part Ballate
Three-part Ballate
Frammenti
3
22
35
39
169
291
Documents
Bibliography
Cross-reference Table of Francesco's Works
301
307
311
PLATES
I. The Miniature of Francesco Landini in
the Squarcialupi Codex (3. 121 v)
II. Francesco's Tombstone in San Lorenzo,
Florence
following
III. The Madrigal Unna conlonba and the Pescha
Cos! pensoso from >. 128v - 129r
".
IV. The Madrigal Si dolce non sono from F.
44v - 45r
*.
'I.
V. The Pescha Cos! pensoso from B. 39v - 40r ... .'J.
VI. The Ballate Donna, che d'amor and Selvagia
fera from P. 104v - 105r
'1.
VII. The Ballata Conviens' a fede fe from R. 71r ..'!.
VIII. The Ballata Nessun ponga speranga from P_.
116v - 117r
1
"..
ix
frontispiece
xvi
20
34
38
72
194
250
INTRODUCTION
I. Early Italian Polyphony
With the beginnings of ars nova there sprang up a distinctive Italian art
of music which used a form of notation at times as radically different from that
of the French as was the music itself. This notation, which began to take a
separate channel with the writings of Petrus de Cruce in the late thirteenth century, will be discussed at length in another chapter. The music differs from the
French first of all in its complete lack of any ecclesiastical influence. There
is no cantus firmus; the texts are entirely secular; the 'Trinity,1 represented
in France by music essentially triple in metre, is forgotten in a music which is
predominantly duple. This Italian trecento music may be regarded as derived just
as directly from the Troubadours as the vernacular poetry for which the music provides a setting. The musical form has a direct relation with the Troubadour
music, while it has none with the earlier French polyphonic music.
Just as the motet of France grew out of the organum of the late twelfth
century, so out of the conductus we see evolved the general style of this secular
music of Italy. There are the two- and three-part compositions without a liturgical tenor, the occasional instrumental parts, and the contrasting syllabic and
melismatic passages which may be noted in the conductus. The only manuscript of
polyphonic music which has been preserved in Italy antedating those which have
furnished the material for this edition of Francesco Landini's music is MS.
Pluteus I, 29 in the Laurentian library at Florence, a collection of organum and
conductus. We should not go so far as to state that the thirteenth-century motets
were not known in Italy, but we do believe it is significant that the next considerable collection of polyphonic music after the conductus manuscript should be
the two which contain fourteenth-century music in a style closely resembling the
conductus.
There are no composers of polyphonic music known in Italy before 1300.
Historians have made a point always to mention Dante Alighieri's friend, Pietro
Casella, as the first madrigalist; and some have copied the illustrious Dr
Burney's reference to a manuscript in the Vatican library, containing a composition by Casella. Ludwig 2 has thoroughly exploded this myth, showing that the
reference to Casella is a quotation from one of the novelle of the fourteenth
century, and is not a statement of authorship. Direct correspondence with the
Vatican library has informed me that the manuscript in question contains no music
at all, but is a codex containing the writings of Seneca.
Johannes Wolf has reported3 a single composition by one Bonaiutus de
Casentino (c. 1300) which would seem partly to bridge the gap between the
iBesseler (Archiv far Masikwissenschaft, VII, 188) describes a motet MS. of the library at
Ivrea, which is probably a stray MS. from Avignon.
2
Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft, V, 298.
3
In the Acta Musicologica (1937).
xi
xil
THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LAMDINI
conductus and the ars nova forms. It is written in a modified conductus style in
two parts, but without the melismas which continued in the madrigal style. It
has however the strophic verse and refrain which occur in the later style. The
text is a Latin sequence on a medical theme.
The first two composers who can be identified are Giovanni da Cascia and
Jacopo da Bologna. 4 Following shortly in their footsteps is a considerable group
of men whose works are to be found together in the codices of the late fourteenth
and early fifteenth centuries. One of these manuscripts, the Squarcialupi codex,
Laur. 87, at Florence, has its music grouped under the individual composers in
approximately their chronological order. This order is accurate insofar as I
have been able to check with the few dates which are known concerning these men.
Comparing this list with the classification of their style of notation, as worked
out by Wolf, I venture to suggest the following lists, showing the three generations of composers in trecento Italy.6
First generation:
Giovanni da Cascia (in the service of Martino della Scala sometime
between 1329 and 1351)
Jacopo da Bologna
Bartolino da Padua
Grazioso da Padua
Vincenzo d'Arimino
Piero
Second generation:
Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
Paolo tenorista
M c o l o da Padua
Ghiraldello da Firenze
Donato da Firenze
Lorenzo da Firenze
Andrea da Firenze
Egidio
Guglielmo di Santo Spirito
Third generation:
Zacherio (Papal singer 1420-1432)
Matteo da Perugia
Giovanni da Genoa
Giovanni da Cinconia
Antonello da Caserta
Filippo da Caserta
Corrado da P i s t o r i a
Bartolomeo da Bologna
4
Cf. the quotation from Villani given in the Documents.

Geschichte der Mensural-notation, I.
6
0ne should note that the distinctive period, known as the trecento or ars nova in Italian
music, is from 1325 to 145 rather than the exact fourteenth century.
s
INTRODUCTION
xiii
The peak of the period comes with the second generation, and in particular with
Francesco Landini who, like his French contemporary Machault, has left the greatest number of works.
The 'composers listed above wrote music in three styles and forms: the
madrigal, an art song derived from the melismatic conductus, the caccia, a type
of.descriptive music in the general form of the madrigal but also in canon, and
the ballata, a song-dance which has close connections with the Troubadour music
and also resembles the French virelais. All of this music is very close to the
social life of the period. It is, for example, the sort of music which was used
in the daily interludes of Boccaccio's Decameron. The growing prosperity of the
independent cities of northern Italy, through their extensive commercial interests
and their comparative freedom from the interference of the Holy Roman Empire,
gave rise to a class of people who had leisure time to devote to an interest in
art, letters, and music. The humanist movement, which found expression in literature and education, is reflected in the writings of the musical theorists of the
time to a greater degree than is often realized." The human emancipation, which
was being expressed more and more in the paintings of the early Renaissance,
found an immediate expression in these madrigals, cacce, and ballate of the
Italian ars nova.
Francesco Landini, in the text which he wrote for one of his madrigals,7
has the following lines:
I am Music, who weeping regret to see
Intelligent people desert my sweet
And perfect effects for the frottole....
He is referring to the popular music of his own time, but this same popular music,
with the decline of the melismatic madrigals which he wrote, developed into the
frottola, strambotta, and villanella of the late fifteenth century, which in turn
furnished a basis for the madrigals of the sixteenth century.
II. Francesco Landini

It is generally accepted that Francesco was born in 1325 at Fiesole, near
Florence. Villani 8 states that his father was Jacopo the painter. It- is quite
likely that this was Jacopo del Casentino, the one distinguished painter named
Jacopo of the first half of the fourteenth century in Florence, first mentioned
in 1339 as a painter; he died in 1358. 9 There is no direct association of the
family name of Landini either with father or son save in the references to
Francesco as a relative made in the next century by Cristoforo Landini, and in
the use of the Landini coat of arms on Francesco's tombstone.10 Villani refers to
him simply as 'Franciscus,' the death record in the Florentine archives as
'Magister Francischus de Orchani,' the motto on the gravestone as 'Franciscus1;
7
No. 11.
Liber de civitatis Florentiaq famosis civibus, a work originally written in 1348 by Giovanni
Villani, a Florentine merchant, and later revised and augmented by his brother and nephew. The
entire section about musicians is given in the Documents.
Cf. Offner, Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, Vol. II, Pt. II.
"Described at the end of this section of the Introduction.
8
xlv
Clno Rlnucclni and Franco Sacchetti address him as 'Francesco,' Guldo del Palagio
as 'Francesco degll Organ!.' One nearly contemporary theorist, Anonymous V, 11
speaks of Francesco as 'Checus de Florentia.' In the manuscripts of music his
name, as author, is indicated in a similar fashion, denoting either his blindness,
his favorite instrument, or his native city. The Squarcialupi codex 'combines all
three appellations, and gives the line 'Magister Franciscus Cecus Horghanista de
Florentia' at the top of each folio containing his music.
Villani calls attention to the fact that Francesco became blind in early
childhood as a result of the smallpox. This affliction, which was not uncommon
among musicians of the preclassical periods, furthered his career if anything,
for men continually marvelled at the prodigious memory which he developed and at
his great skill in improvisation, necessary accomplishments for a blind musician.
In spite of his blindness, Francesco was well trained in fields other
than music. Several writers refer to his knowledge of the seven liberal arts.
His grandnephew, Cristoforo Landini (1424-1504), professor of rhetoric and poetry
at Florence, wrote of Francesco 'non indotto in Filosofia, non indotto in
Astrologia1 and then adds 'ma in Musica dottissimo.1 12 That Francesco was not inactive among the ranks of the philosophers is evidenced by the fact that he was
the only member of the Florentine circle who stood out in support of the theories
of William of Ockham. Wesselofsky 13 gives some extended Latin verses by Francesco
written in praise of the logic of Ockham and addressed to Antonio, rector of Vado.
Ludwig 14 lists several events in Francesco's life which he has gleaned
from the writings of two older composers, Giovanni da Cascia and Jacopo da
Bologna, under whom Francesco probably studied. They are to the effect that
Francesco was in Verona for a while serving the despot Martino della Scala, who
ruled from 1329-1351. During this time he participated in an artistic 'duel'
with Giovanni da Cascia. In 1346 he celebrated the birth of two Visconti princes
in song.
Villani refers to Francesco's reception of the laurel wreath from the
king of Cyprus at Venice. Van den Borren 15 has confirmed this fact, showing that
it took place in 1364 during the festival in honor of the subjugation of the
rebels in Candia. The award, in recognition of his poetry, was made by Pietro
il Grande. Petrarch was a member of the jury, but has made no reference to
Francesco in his writings. Van den Borren also shows that Francesco was defeated
in a contest on the organ by Francesco da Pesaro, the organist of St Mark's.
In 1375 we find Coluccio Salutati petitioning the bishop of Florence In
Francesco's behalf, and referring to the 'light which is shed on the glorious
name of our city and the Florentine church from this blind man.' 1 6
11
Cousaemaker, Scriptores, III. The occasion is a criticism of the notation used in one of
Francesco's ballate. A full discussion of this criticism is given in the notes following No. 58.
l2
Quoted by Wesselofsky, II Paradiso degli Albert!, 1,104, from Cristoforo's Apologia nella
quale si difende Dante e Firenze da' falsi calunniatori.
"ibid., I, 295-501.
a4
'Die mehrstimmige Musik des XIV Jahrhunderts,' Sammelbande der Internationale Mu6lkgesellshaft, IV. Ludwig does not give the source of this information.
i Les debuts de la musique a Venice.
16
Cf. Document V.
INTRODUCTION
xy
An account book of Andrea de1 Servi records a payment of nine 'solidos'

to Fr. Landini on 29 September, 1379, 'pro quinque moctectis. 117 If these are
sacred motets, no further trace of them has survived.
If we may Judge by the preponderance of his known works, Francesco's compositions must have been popular during his lifetime, for over a third of the extant Italian music of the fourteenth century is by him. Yet, like many more recent composers, his chief glory appears to have come from skill as a virtuoso, in
his case as an organist. In 1389 Giovanni da Prato wrote a Romanza called 11^
Paradiso degll Albertl.18 In many respects this surpasses the Decameron of Boc- .
caccio in the clarity with which it describes the Florentine circle in which the
ars nova music was performed. The narrative relates the daily activities, in the
Paradiso or lovely suburban villa of the Albert! family, of a group similar to
the later Florentine Academies, consisting of many notable figures of the day.
Interspersed among the philosophic discussions are stories, novelle, which are
told by the various characters, contemporary personages, among whom is Francesco.
Each tells a story typical of his own occupation, so that Francesco's is a story
of a musician who is serenading a fair lady in the evening. He is overheard by
the local despot, who is so entranced by the music that he takes the musician into his service. Complications rise, however, when this service is neglected for
the charms of the fair lady.
Several passages in the discussions between novelle give us vivid portraits of the blind musician. In one of the interludes in the third book, when
the members of the group were congregated at the villa, Francesco played his love
verses so sweetly 'that no one had ever heard such beautiful harmonies, and their
hearts almost burst from their bosoms.' On another occasion, when all were
gathered in the garden, 'much to the pleasure of all, and especially of Francesco,
two young maidens appeared who danced and sang his Orsu, gentili spirit! 10 so
sweetly that not only the people standing by were affected, but even the birds in
the Cyprus trees began to sing more sweetly.' At another time 'the organ was made
ready and brought to Francesco
everyone marvelled at his playing.' In the
fourth book after one of the stories, when the sun was coming up and beginning to
TDecome warm, while 'a thousand birds were singing,' Francesco was ordered to play
a bit on his organetto to see if the singing of the birds would lessen or increase with his playing. As soon as he began to play many birds at first became
silentj then they redoubled their singing, and, strange to say, one nightingale
came and perched on a branch over his head. When he had finished playing, the
question was raised whether one creature had the power of listening more than any
other in view of the fact that the one nightingale appeared to hear the sweetness
and harmony of Francesco's music more than any other bird which happened to be
there.
Considering the relative accuracy with which the frameworks of these
stories such as the Decameron, the Heptameron, the Canterbury Tales, the Paradiso,
and others reflect the true life of their times, we may consider it not at all unlikely that such an incident as the above actually took place under the conditions
described. At any rate, the characters are not fictitious nor is the scene. The
17
Gotti, II Sacchetti.
"Edited in 1867 by Wesselofsky.
10
No. 138. For an account of another contemporary performance cf. the notes to No. 100.
xvi
Albert! family was one of the leading industrial families of Florence during the
fourteenth century. They were eventually eclipsed by the rising power of the
Medici and much of their wealth was confiscated, Antonio degli Alberti, the
probable owner of the Paradiso, being exiled from Florence in 1401. The villa
became a convent of the Camaldulensian order, which controlled it until the end
of the eighteenth century.20
Beginning the section which contains Francesco's music in the Squarcialupi
codex there is a quarter-page illumination21 showing the beloved artist seated
with his organetto. The text of the madrigal on this folio 22 reads as follows:
I am Music, who weeping regret to see
Intelligent people desert my sweet
And perfect effects for popular songs;
Because ignorance and vice abound
Good is deserted, and the worst is seized.
Everyone wants to arrange musical notes,
Compose madrigals, catches, and ballads,
Each holding his own to be perfect;
He who would be praised for a virtue
Must first come down to earth.
Formerly my sweetnesses were prized
By knights, barons, and great lords.
Now gentle hearts are corrupted.
But I, Music, do not lament alone
For I see even the other virtues deserted.
At the bottom of the folio there is a small figure of Saint Cecilia weeping over
her instrument at the sentiments expressed above.
Death came 2 September 1397, with burial two days later in the church of
San Lorenzo, Florence, where he had long served as organist. The following motto
was carved upon his tombstone:
Deprived of the light, Francesco, whom alone Music extolls above all
others for his great intellect and his organ music, rests his ashes
here, his soul above the stars.
The musician's figure with an organetto is a notable example of the sculpture of
the period. In the border are two little angels, one playing a viol, the other a
late. Above the head is the Landini coat of arms, a pyramid with six golden
mounds on a field of azure, with three branches of laurel protruding from the
mounds.23
At the end of the following century the slab was removed, and the under
side turned up and used for a Bernardo Torni (died 1497) who was a professor of
20
Gerstfeldt, 'Francesco Landini,1 Deutsche Rundschau, CXXIII, 444 ff.

frontispiece.
22
Cf. no. 11.
Cf. Plate II. See also Rietstrap, Armorial General, II, 16j Planches, IV, 15.
8
II.
Francesco's Tombstone in
San Lorenzo, Florence.
INTRODUCTION
xvii
philosophy and medicine at Pisa. Gandolfi24 suggests that this may have been
brought about by Gerolamo Torni, brother of Bernardo, who was Vicario-generale of
Florence at the time. The slab was found in the middle of the nineteenth century
at the convent chapel of San Domenico at Prato, and was restored to San Lorenzo
in 1890, through the efforts of the Royal Commission of Fine Arts.
III. Manuscript Sources

Johannes Wolf, in his detailed work Geschichte der Mensural-notation von
1250-1460, has carefully listed the contents of the various sources for the music
of that period.2 5 The chief manuscripts which contain the works of Francesco are
-as follows:
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pal. 87
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Pan. 6
London, British Museum, Add. MS. 89,987
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Fonds fr. nouv. acq. 6771
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Fonds ltal. 568.
In addition to these principal sources there are the following which contain only
one or two works by Francesco:
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Nouv. acq. 4917
Prague, University Library, XI, E, 9
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, L. 568
Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 684
Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 1475.
Oxford, Bodleian library, C.3. eccl. 229
Pistoia, Archivio capitolare della cattedrale, frammento muaicale
(without number).
It proved possible to secure photostatic copies of all save the last three manuscripts for collation in this study. The music contained in these three occurs in
at least two other manuscripts, so that their lack has not been a handicap.
FLORENCE, LAURENTIAN LIBRARY, PAL. 87
This vellum manuscript is known as the Squarcialupi codex in honor of its
first owner. After his death (c. 1470) Antonio Squarcialupi left it to his
nephew Raphael de Bonamicis. It then became the property of Giuliano de Medici
and thence of the Laurentian Library. It is unique in its large collection of
exclusively Italian ars nova music. Of the 23 Italian composers listed in section I above, 12 are represented in this one manuscript; the works of each are
grouped together rather than scattered through the codex, as is more commonly the
case. Each man's portrait is given in the large illumination which begins the
text of his first work.20 Francesco is represented by 145 pieces, the largest
single collection of his works.
The manuscript is written throughout in a humanist minuscule hand, with
an elaborately traced capital at the beginning of each work. The music is clearly
24
Una riparazione a proposito di Francesco Landlni.

The field has been surveyed further by Besseler, Archiv fur Musikwlssenschaft, VII, 167 ff.
20
These have been reproduced in Gandolfi, Illustrazioni di alcuni cimeli concernanti l'arte
musicale in Flrenze. Cf. the frontispiece to the present work.
25
xviii
THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LAMD1NI
set forth, although with a considerable number of brief omissions disconcerting

to a transcriber. In some cases the spelling of the text varies between the two
parts of the same composition; usually one is more phonetic than the other. The
names of the different parts and of the two sections to each composition are indicated only when a text is not given with that part. Final notes are always
Longsj bar-lines are double, with a design worked out between them. The parts
are always given in the following order when on a single page: superius, tenor,
contratenor. When on a double page the superius is given at the upper left side,
the tenor beneath beginning on the left and sometimes continuing beneath the contratenor, which is on the upper right side. Across the top of each double page
is written 'MAGISTER FRANCISCUS CECUS HORGHANISTA DE FLORENTIA' with alternate
red and black uncials.
The manuscript will be referred to during the course of this work as S..
FLORENCE, NATIONAL LIBRARY, PAN. 26
This is a paper manuscript containing 85 of Francesco's compositions, 7
of which are not found elsewhere, which with the works of other composers makes a
total of 151 Italian and 24 French compositions. There are no illuminations,
even the capitals being plain. The author is usually indicated by initial only.
The text is written in the same style as >. but less carefully. The music, on
the other hand, has fewer mistakes than the latter. The final Longs are exaggerated, ^ ^ M . The use of ligatures varies considerably from J3. without
changing the time values of the notes concerned. Occasionally the contratenor
part is given before the tenor part. The second section of the ballate, instead
of being marked secunda pars as in all the other manuscripts, is marked andare
here. This manuscript contains the only use of the term cantus in connection
with Francesco's music, the term occuring in the upper part of the tritextual
madrigal, no. 11. In many of the parts without text the end of a phrase is indicated by or. This is probably a repetition of the last syllable of the opening
indication: Tenor or Contratenor. This practice is found once or twice in the
other manuscripts as well. Few of the time signatures sometimes found in >. are
given here.
Many times J^J J
becomes J J J
in this manuscript.
In several of the madrigals the second section is separated from the

first almost as though it were a different composition. The extra stanzas are
then given between the two sections rather than beneath, and the line suggesting
the stanza to follow is that of the second section. In each of these madrigals
the word ritornello or its abbreviation 'T^Y*2 ? is given at the beginning of the
second section. This has been a most useful factor in aiding in the identification of the madrigal form as distinguished from that of the ballata. In no other
manuscript is this form as carefully indicated.
This manuscript will be referred to as F.
27
Cf. Plate IV.
INTRODUCTION
xix
LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM, ADD. MS. 29,987

With this vellum manuscript we have a source which is generally conceded
to be one of the earliest for the music of the Italian ars nova. It contains
Italian works exclusively. Little is known of its history; on the second folio
the arms of the Medici family appear, and the catalogue of the British Museum
states that in 1670 it belonged to Carlo di Tommaso Strozzi. The script borders
on the cursive in style;-capitals are simple and without ornamentation; the notes
are written very crudely, and so carelessly that one would work with difficulty
unless it were possible to compare with other copies. The sharps are inaccurately placed, in direct contrast to the other manuscripts, where they are either on
the correct line or space a slight distance before their note or else are beneath
the note. Many times this manuscript has superfluous rests; occ&sionalxy these
come at places where they could be considered comparable to points of syncopation
or of division, but not all can be so explained. Sometimes the note values are
out of proportion to their proper size; especially is there a tendency to make
large notes still larger.
This manuscript is the only one in which the form of the music is stated.
In many of the works the initials are given to show the form, while occasionally
the words Madrlalle, Balata, Chaccia are written out, together with the name of
the composer, e.g., 'Madrialle di francescho degli orghanni.' In some of the compositions the continuation of the penultimate syllable through the final melisma
is indicated, e.g., bo g_ g_ o. schi.2a The repetition of the first stanza is
never suggested in this manuscript, nor is the third stanza of the ballata ever
placed with the music, as is the case occasionally in the other manuscripts. The
final notes are frequently shaped thus; V v C O ^ *
This is one of two manu-
scripts where a composition of Francesco's appears with no text whatsoever,29

suggesting that it may have been used upon, some occasion with instruments only.
Professor McLaughlin has called my attention to the fact that many variants in the texts as found in this particular manuscript are of a sort which would
indicate that the contents were taken down from dictation rather than from another
copy. The musical variants to which attention has been called would bear out this
hypothesis.
In all there are 29 of Francesco's works here, of which two appear nowhere
else.
This manuscript will be referred to as B.
PARIS, NATIONAL LIBRARY, FONDS FR. NOUV. ACQ. 6771
Here is another paper manuscript, the only principal one containing a considerable portion of French music. There are 117 works by French composers, 104
by Italian. It is called the Reina codex after its former owner. There are 19
88
Cf. no. 57 below.

No. 126. The other composition is no. 143, which appears without text in the Prague MS. II,
E, 9.
29
xx
works by Francesco here, all of which are ballate. All are"Contained in jS. as
well, and all save one are in some third manuscript also. There are enough variants, however, between J3. and this Reina codex to prevent our considering one a
direct copy of the other.
Few authors are indicated for the various works. Sections of the compositions are infrequently labelled. The final notes are usually written as in F_.
Points of division are used much more prolifically than in any of the other manuscripts. The s i g n , ^ 30 which is quite rare elsewhere, is met with more frequently here.
This manuscript contains two compositions, Phiton, Phiton, beste tres
veneneuse and De Narclsus, by a Magister FranciscusI The former has three opening
measures which correspond to the beginning of Machault's Phyton, le merveilleux
serpent. Several writers have referred to this as a work of Francesco Landini.
Gerold 31 suggests that if written by Francesco, it is homage to Machault because
of the similarity just mentioned. However, the notation of both Phiton and De
Harcisus is in a style entirely different from that used for Francesco's works in
this same manuscript. The musical form is also that of the French ballade rather
than one of the Italian forms. Furthermore these works appear again in the
Chantilly Mus. Con. 10^7, a manuscript containing none of the Italian trecento
music. For these reasons the two compositions in question are definitely not attributable to Francesco Landini.
In this manuscript on one occasion the first and second endings of a section are marked ouverts and clus, rather than the customary verto and chiuso.
In further discussion this manuscript will be referred to as R.
PARIS, NATIONAL LIBRARY, FONDS ITAL. 568
This is probably the oldest of the principal manuscripts with which we are
concerned. The text is a modified Gothic script, clearly written, with ornamented
initials somewhat similar to although less ornate than those of .S. It is largely
devoted to Italian composers, and contains 60 works by Francesco, all of which are
contained in at least one other manuscript. There are closer connections between
the notation of this and of S,. than between any other two manuscripts. Also,
since some errors in S_. are given correctly here, we may safely assume that J3. was
copied in part from this manuscript.
From this manuscript, which will be subsequently called ., Fetis in 1827
made the first modern transcription of Francesco's music, section one of Non ara
ma' pieta, no. 135.
The remaining manuscripts consulted, each of which contains only one composition by Francesco, are sufficiently discussed in the footnotes beneath their
respective works.
30
31
Cf. the section on notation, below.

La musique au moyen 3ge, p. 351.
INTRODUCTION
xxi
IV. The Notation

Contrary to the usual view that the Italian notation and art of music were
off-shoots from the French, both notation and art represent parallel developments
which in the early fifteenth century merged into the French style, greatly to the
enrichment of the l a t t e r . One wishes that the music of a generation prior to
Giovanni da Cascia were known today, for the theorists who describe the I t a l i a n
notation of that time must have had a practical basis on which to work. At the
present time, however, i t is only from the theorists that we can learn about the
development of the Italian notation, a development that is completed by the time
of the f i r s t known generation of Italian composers, and which has already begun to
merge in the French system during the second generation. In the l a s t generation
of the ars nova group there is hardly any distinction between the two, although
for a time their fundamental conception s t i l l remained different.
The French conception of notation during the ars nova was of a possible
triple or duple division of each note value. Thus the Long might contain either
three or two Breves, the Breve either three or two Semibreves, etc. In practice
the t r i p l e or 'perfect' divisions were favored. In four of Francesco's later works,
nos. 6, 10, 75* and 141, we find the French time signatures 32 given at points
where the metre changes from duple to t r i p l e , or the reverse, .in the middle of a
composition.
The Italian practice appears to have developed from the music of Petrus
de Cruce who in the thirteenth century established the use of the point for division. His own theoretical writings do not refer to this practice, but other
theorists 33 have quoted him to the effect that if two, three, four, five, six, or
seven Semibreves are set off by points of division each group will have the value
of one Breve.34 This changeable content of the Breve and the emphasis on the use
of the point for division constitute the peculiarities of the Italian system of
notation. Their use caused the writers Marchettus de Padua and Prosdocimus de
Beldemandis35 to l i s t eight different time signatures or dlvisionesi binaria,
ternaria, quaternaria, senaria imperfecta, senaria perfecta, octonaria, novenarla,
duodenariar33 These signatures were sometimes indicated at the beginning of the
music by the appropriate i n i t i a l l e t t e r . In Francesco's music this indication i s
found only in connection with the madrigals and the pescha.
Where the number of Semibreves within the Breve-measure is more or less
than the normal two or three, the f i r s t Semibreves receive their regular value,
32
j3 for tempus perfectum and C^for tempus Imperfectum. In Francesco's music these signs are
email i n Bize, covering only one apace on the staff.
33
Bo'bertUs de Handlo, Seûlae; Jacques de Liege, Speculum.
34
This usage may be observed in the few compositions by Petrus de Cruce which have been transcribed by Rokseth, Polyphonies du XHIe siecle.
S6
Prosdocimus in his Tractatus practice de musica mensurablli ad modum Italicorum presents the
outstanding contemporary exposition .of the Italian a r t . He i s moBt patriotic in speaking of i t s
merits: 'Et ex hoc patet artem Italicam pulcriorem et laudabiliorem esse arte Galllca.'
39
For a complete table of the various arrangements of Semibreves within the Breve measure cf.
Wolf, Geschlchte der Mensural-notation, I , SO ff.
xxil
while the last ones are sustained longer than their regular value in order to fill
the entire Breve-measure. This is known as via naturae. To vary this the com-(
posers developed via artis by introducing a tail, A , beneath the Semibreves they
wished to prolong.
At the beginning of the ritornello to Francesco's madrigal no. 11 there is
the sign (Trr|
modus longarum perfectus, indicating the change from a duple to a
triple division of the Long.

Points are used throughout the period of mensural notation in four ways:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
punctus
punctus
punctus
punctus
perfectionis
divisionis
additionis
demonstrationis.
The first is used after a note to make certain that the musician understands it is to have a perfect value, i.e., to equal three of the next smaller
note values. In the case of the larger notes where it usually appears, it has
practically the same force as (3), which, in Francesco's music at least, is more
commonly limited to the smaller notes. Again, (1) has the force of (2) when it is
used with a note which fills the entire measure.
The second class of point has been mentioned above as being used to a much
larger degree by the Italians than by anyone else. Since it has the same significance as the bar-line of today, it is indicated in our transcriptions by means of
a solid bar. Its use was most necessary in the works which were written with the
Italian system of the changeable Breve value. Thus, in a work such as no. 22,
there was so much use of via artis, making it difficult to distinguish the Breve
units, that the point of division was used where all the bar-lines come in transcription, except before the final Longs and beside the ligatures, where there
could be no question.
The third class is better called a point of augmentation, for it serves
the same use as does our point in modern notation, increasing the value of a duple
or imperfect note by one-half its original value. Thus, it corresponds in part to
(1). It is used most commonly with Breves and Semibreves. It may be used with
ligatures as well as with individual notesj in such cases it affects that note of
the ligature after which it is placed.
The fourth class of point, that of 'demonstration,1 is better called a
point of syncopation, as its function is to demonstrate the beginning of a syncopation. It is always placed either before or after the first note of the syncopation and might many times pass as a point of division, marking the beginning of a
measure. In the last period of Italian trecento music, this point was many times
written ^ rather than as the single point more commonly used.
is much less confusing to the transcriber.
This later usage
INTRODUCTION
xxiii
The ordinary note values and their corresponding rests are listed in section VIII below. In this music by Francesco, the Maxima is used only four times,
in cases where a note longer than the augmented Long is desired. On these occasions it has the value of two Longs. The Maxima rest is not used in this music.
At the beginning of the delayed part in the two canons, numbers 10 and 13, the prolonged rest is indicated by an appropriate number of Long rests.
The Long is a fundamental basis for metre, and establishes the boundary
for the measure we use today in two instances. Its division may be duple (imperfect) as in those works which we have transcribed in 4/2 time, where it equals
two Breves, or its division may be triple (perfect), equalling three Breves as in
3/1 time. In both these instances where the Long is the metrical unit the divisions of the Breve and Semibreve are always duple.
Where the Breve is the metric unit there are three possibilities. The
first we have transcribed as 6/4 time. This is our modern duple-compound measure.
In it the Breve unit is subdivided into two Semibreves, each of which is in turn
split into three Minims. This metre is readily distinguished by the combination
of two Minim rests followed by a Minim^^; ^
, a popular rhythmic combination
and one which can occur only in this or the third possibility. Somewhat less
frequent is the second possible division of the Breve into triple-simple time, resulting in a 3/2 measure, where the Breve contains three Semibreves, each of
which is in turn divided into two Minims. The third division is into triple-compound time, 9/4, the Breve containing three Semibreves, each containing three
Minims. Finally there are seven compositions in which there are not an even number of Breve values, thus preventing the use of the Long as metric unit. These
have been transcribed as a duple-simple division of the Breve in 2/2 time.
Other infrequent subdivisions of both Long and Breve are indicated by
means of white notation. The most common use of the white or hollow notes is in
compositions where the division of the Semibreve is simple, i.e., in two parts,
and the composer wishes to change it to compound, i.e., in three parts, for a
brief space. In such cases three white Minims or a white Semibreve and white
Minim are used, these having together the same value as two black Minims or a
black Semibreve. White notation is used for this purpose in nos. 27, 38, 61, 66,
150, and 152. On each occasion the fundamental metre of 3/2 changes temporarily,
while the white notes are used, to an equivalent of 9/4. A similar use is found
in no. 93, with the exception that since the metre is 4/2 larger sizes of white
notes are used to produce larger triplets. So complicated did these varying sizes
of triplets become that it was found advisable to use a 6/4 metre in the transcription.
In two other works, nos. 141 and 134, white notes are used in an entirely
different manner, although the underlying principle is the same. Each uses the
white Breve and Semibreve, or its equivalent in the special forms of the following
paragraph, to change the original 6/4 metre into a 3/2 metre. In other words,
here the duple-compound metre is changed by the white notation to a triple-simple
metre. In the latter of these two works this same division is carried a step
further, so that the white Breve forms the basis for a short succession of measures
in a 4/4 metre.
THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LAWDINI
xxiv
We have discussed the sign of via artis and its use above. Other special
signs are occasionally used. The most common of these is the equivalent of our
modern triplet, a group which provides an occasional change from a simple to a
compound division of the Semibreve.
and is used much
It is written
more commonly than its equivalent in white notation, leading us to believe that
the white notation was a later innovation.37 Another equivalent of white notation,
found several times when the composer has wished to change a measure from duplecompound to triple-simple metre, is the note 1 , which has the value of two Minims
in a 6/4 measure ordinarily containing six Minims.
rhythm.
In other words ^ =<?in a aa-
One other n o t e , ^ , is occasionally found; this equals an augmented Semi-
breve in duple time, i.e., o- in 4/2 time.

Ligatures are groups of notes collected together in one prolonged sign.
They have a direct connection with the more complicated neumes of the mediaeval
period, and are never alloted more than a single syllable of text. Thus their use'
is limited to melismatic passages or to parts which have no text. As will be
noted, the smallest possible notes which are obtainable in ligature are Semibreves,
while the majority are Breves and Longs. For this reason ligatures are most commonly found in the tenor parts.
The rules concerning ligatures remained practically constant throughout
their entire history. For a contemporary source I have referred to the rules as
given by Prosdocimus de Beldemandis. 38 He arranges the rules as follows:
An initial note is a Long if (1) there is a tail down on the right, or
(2) if there is no tail at all and the following note descends, whether these
notes are square or oblique.-
(2)
(1)
An i n i t i a l note is a Breve if (l) there is a t a i l down on the left, or

(2) if there is no t a i l at a l l and the following note ascends; in either case the
notes may be square or oblique.
(2)
(1)
r*-\
1
37
i ^
I n II. only, the note .^ i s used to indicate the equivalent of the f i r s t two notes of this
t r i p l e t . In a l l other MSS. the copyist has been forced to use white notation for this rhythm.
38
Cf. p . xxl, n. 35.
INTRODUCTION
'
xxv
The first and second notes of a ligature are Semibreves if there is a tail
up on the left, regardless of the shape or direction of the notes. This is the
most common of all ligatures. There is a single indirect exception to this, where
via naturae augments the size of the second Semibreve of the ligature.
Except for the last rule above, all notes after the first are always
Breves until the final note is reached.
If there are only two notes in the ligature, the last note may be a Semibreve if affected by the tail up on the left of the initial note.
All otner final notes are Breves unless, because of the rules that follow,
they are Longs.
A final note is a Long if (l) there is a tail either up or down on the
right, if (2) it descends from the preceding note and is square, or (3) if it is
directly above the preceding note, both being square, and is connected to it by
a tail down on the right.
(1)
(2)
(3)
While the flat sign is used in this music much as it is today, the sharp
sign serves a double roleraising the note half a tone or cancelling a previous
flat, the function of the more modern natural sign. When once used in a part, an
accidental remains in force throughout the melodic phrase in which it occurs. 39
Occasionally when an accidental is introduced near the end of a line its presence
or absence at the beginning of the following line helps to determine its duration.
When it is introduced near the beginning of a line its duration is more difficult
to determine unless the phrase is well marked.
V. The Musical Forms

Francesco has referred, in the second stanza of his madrigal number II, 40
to the forms in which his music is setthe madrialle, cacce, ballate. These
forms predominate in the Italian ars nova music, and are characteristic of this
period and country alone.
39
For a concise example of the full effect of this principle cf. no. 62, n. 1.
40
Cf. p. xvi above.
xxvl
Their literary form was discussed in the first half of the fourteenth century by two outstanding writers, Antonio da Tempo41 and Gidino da Sommacampagna.42
Both these writers describe five forms of the madrigal, based on the arrangement
of lines containing either eleven or seven syllables, with three lines to each
stanza, and with from two to four stanzas. There are two additional forms which
have a ritornello of one or two lines. All of Francesco's'madrigals consist of
one or more stanzas of three lines, each containing eleven syllables, and a
ritornello containing two such lines. Biadene43 has shown that the term madrigal
is derived from a mediaeval Latin term matricale meaning a rustic song in the
mother tongue. Wherever the word is used in the manuscripts of Francesco's music
the later form madrialle occurs.
Tiie forms of several compositions in B.. are marked at the top of the folio,
showing that the copyist considered them to be madrigals or ballate as the case
might be. The same madrigals when given in ,F. have the word ritornello as the indication for the second section. Those in F. having this indication plac-e the additional stanzas before the second section, rather than after it as is the custom
in all other compositions; the beginning of the ritornello section is then indicated by its first line. Through such evidence, it has been possible to isolate
nine madrigals in two parts and three madrigals in three parts from the works of
Francesco.
The musical style of the madrigal shows considerable similarity to that of
the conductus with its long florid melismatic passages.44 These melismas, before
and after each phrase, make the madrigals much longer than the ballate. The first
section is broken up into three phrases corresponding to the lines of text. In
the case of the three-part madrigals this number becomes a multiple of three. At
the ritornello the metre frequently changes with the appropriate signature indicated. The ritornello always consists of two phrases in keeping with its text.
The use of time signatures in the two-part madrigals, their more complicated
style of notation involving the changeable Breve, and the more extended melismas,
all lead us to believe that these two-part madrigals were among Francesco's
earlier works.
Each of the three-part madrigals is unique in its structure. All are undoubtedly works of a late period in his life. No. 10 is one of the finest canons
to be found in the fourteenth century and is well worth a careful study. No. 12
is the first example we have been able to find of what may be called 'Variations
above a Ground.' No. 11 is written with a different text under each part of music.
The verses however are all parts of a single poem,45 and if an audience were to
grasp their meaning they must have been sung separately, one at a time. It is
possible and even probable that the other two parts may have been played on instruments, for there are many contemporary references to the accompanying of
singers by instrumental players.40 There are several possible arrangements; the
41
Trattato delle rime volgari (c. 1352).

Trattato de 11 rithimi volgari (c. 1350).
43
Rassegna bibliografica della letteratura italiana, VI, 329.
44
C f . the author's paper, 'Origins of the Italian ars nova,' Papers read by members of the
American Mualcologlcal Society, Dec. 29 and 30, 1937. Cf. also his article, 'The conductus,'
Musical Quarterly, XXVII (1941), 165-204.
*5Cf. again the translation on p. xvi.
46
Cf. section VII below.
42
INTRODUCTION
xxvii
superius may have been sung in all three stanzas, the other two parts being
played by instruments each time, or the parts bearing each stanza may have been
sung in turn, the remaining parts being played. According to the appearance of
the composition in the manuscripts, either manner is possible after a little rehearsal, and rehearsal would be necessary for this music even if it were written
unitextually. Francesco wrote one other composition47 in this manner, i.e., tritextually. In this latter case the texts with each part, combined with the added
stanzas following each part, form a single extended ballata such as occurs in 23
other compositions.
The verses of the madrigals, as contrasted with the more frivolous texts
of the ballate, are serious and expressive, in keeping with the fundamental conception of art-song which they represent. There is frequent use of the incidents
of Greek mythology in their lines.
There are undoubtedly close connections between the Italian caccia, the
French chace, and the later English 'catch.'* With each of these terms there is
associated the thought of a chase which is expressed in the music by a canon between two or more parts. Many writers insist on a connection with hunting because
of the literal meaning of the terms. If we examine the verses written in this
style we will find that while hunting scenes are used as occasional subjects, any
scene that entails a vivid description of action might be used. Thus the battle
scene was one of the most popular subjects.
In Italy this form took the shape of an extended canon in two parts accompanied by a third independent part. The music is frankly descriptive, with
free use of hocket and imitation to portray the excitement of the scene described.
The music is written in the form of an extended madrigal, with phrases in groups
of three and with a ritornello at the end. The canon ends at the close of the
first section and is started anew in the ritornello.
The poem of the caccia is written in a very free style with little regard
for rime schemes or metre. Great stress is laid on vividness of description, to
which end considerable onomatapoeia is used. If the subject permits, street cries
and other similar calls and ejaculations may be inserted. For a heightened effect
through contrast, the section portraying excitement is usually inserted in an outer frame of a quiet nature. To show the full significance of this contrast we
quote the text of Francesco's only caccia, better termed a pescha since it deals
with a fishing scene:
Thus, thoughtful, as love guides me
Along the green coast slowly,
I hear: 'Lift that rock!'
' Look at the cl-awfish, look! Look at the fish!
Catch him, catch him!'
This is marvelous!1
Isabella began screaming,
'Oh! oh!' 'What's the matter? V.hat's the matter?'
'I've been bit in the toe!'
'0 Lisa, the fish is swimming away!1
'I've got him!
I've got him!' 'Ermellina's caught him!'
47
No. 140.
*Cf. Fr. Novati, 'Per l'origine e la storia della cacce,' Studl medlaevl, II (1906-7),
303-326.
xxviii
THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDIMI

'Hold on to himl' 'This is a grand fishing holel1
Meanwhile I reached the troop of lovers
Where I found fair- ladies and their swains
Who welcomed me with kindly looks.
Wooldridge48 has described the plot of another of these cacce, with an entirely
different setting but with the same degree of excitement portrayed.49
The ballata, as described by Antonio da Tempo and Gidino da Sommacampagna,
may be in one of four principal forms, grande, mezina, menora, or minima, depending on whether the number of lines in the first section is four, three, two or
one. Each form varies within itself in the use of lines with eleven or seven
syllables. In each of these cases, as with the madrigals, definite models of the
arrangement of lines and the rime scheme are given. Francesco's music, most of
which was probably written in the quarter-century following these two writers,
does not limit itself to the exact patterns which they describe.
In all of the extant accounts of performances of trecento musicin the
Decameron, da Prato's Paradiso, Sercambi's Novellif0 Prodenzani's sonnets51 i t
is the ballata which is described. This is not strange when we consider that out
of the 154 known works by Francesco all but thirteen are in this form. As the
name implies,52 it is a composition which was sung and played while others danced,
an art-dance as contrasted with such social dances as the estampie and danse
royale.
The form closely resembles that of the French virelai or chanson balladee53
and presents a distinct contrast to that of the madrigal. Each ballata is divided into two sections which are nearly equal in length. "The most common distribution of verses is that of three lines in the first section and two in the second
section. In J3., B_., R., and P. the latter section is plainly marked secunda pars
in all parts .given without text. In j?. alone this section is marked andare. The
relationship of rime schemes and the position of verses beneath and after the
music have enabled scholars to determine that these two sections bear an A B B A
relationship. After the composition has been sung once, the second section is repeated with new words, after which the first section is likewise repeated with
new words.54
An inconsistent practice is that of placing at the end of these four
stanzas the opening words of the first stanza. This practice is never adhered to
in any one manuscript, nor is it the same for otherwise identical pieces in different manuscripts. It is a matter of speculation therefore whether it was an
accepted custom to close the composition with a repetition of this first stanza
and the corresponding first section of music, or whether this indication merely
suggests that the song may be repeated to accommodate the dancers, in the manner
48
Oxford History of Music, II, 2, 325, (2nd edition).

The texts for many others may be found in Carducci, Cacce in rime.
50
Cf. the note to no. 100 below.
51
Cf. section VII below.
52
Antonio da Tempo: 'Et tales ballatae cantantur et coreizantur.1
53
Cf. Machault, Werke (Ludwig ed.), I.
64
Antonio and Gidino refer to the four stanzas of the ballata as volta, primo piede, secondo
piede, and represa.
4g
INTRODUCTION
xxix
of a perpetuum mobile. Twenty-three of these ballate have one or two additional

sets of stanzas. Nearly always, in such instances, the opening words of the first
stanza are given before each new group of stanzas. The extended form may be indicated thus:
Music:
A B B A
A B B A
A B B A
Poetry:
A B C D
A E F G
A H I J
The position of the text of stanza three is variable. Sometimes it is

placed beneath stanza two where sung, and at other times it is placed after the
music as an added stanza. While the text of the first two stanzas may be written
under either one, two, or three parts, that of stanza three never occurs under
more than any one of the three parts. Presumably the only reason it is placed
there at all is to help in distinguishing the form, yet it is not inconceivable
that during the performance of this third stanza only the one part having the
text was sung, while the other parts were played on instruments, as in the case
of parts having no text at all. In three cases only, stanza four is placed under
one part in the first section; otherwise it is placed after the music. The above
query about the performance of the third stanza would be equally applicable to
the fourth stanza. However, since in the majority of cases all save the first
two stanzas follow the music we may safely assume that all the stanzas were performed in the same manner as the first two, much as additional stanzas beneath
hymns are sung today.
Often, especially in the three-part ballate, the second section has first
and second endings, marked verto and chiuso, 55 to be used with stanzas two and
three respectively. As will be shown in the following section, these alternate
endings shed considerable light on fourteenth-century tonality. Nos. Ill and 139
have these endings after the first section. They may have been written in imitation of the French rondeaux, just as the two tritextual works discussed on page
xxvi-xxvii may have been written in imitation of the motets. In the present Instance the ballata nature Is clear, for. the entire text of no. Ill is carefully
placed: stanza one beneath section one of music ending in the verto of the first
section, atanza two beneath section two of music ending in its verto, stanza three
beneath section two of the music ending in the chiu3o to section two, and finally
3tanza four beneath section one ending in the first chiuso. The relationship between closing and initial harmonies of these stanzas Is most interesting. No. 139
is unique in that the second section is durchkomponiert; stanza two follows the
first as usual, but instead of a repetition of the music for stanza three, there
is an entirely new section, yet one well in keeping with the others in form.
Another irregularity among the ballate is found in no. 7<5. Here stanza
one consists of a single line of verse, which is followed by a single rendition
of the music of the second section. Although this latter section is twice as
long as the first it cannot be considered durchkomponiert as was the above. In
all there are two groups of stanzas for this ballata, arranged in an A B A form
rather than the customary A B B A , as follows:
Music:
A B AA B AA ,
Poetry: A B C A D E A
55In
R., no. 120, they are marked ouverts and clus after the French manner.
xxx
Finally there is a group of fragments, nos. 150 to 154, which have only
two stanzas of text to go with the two sections of music, and which thereby lack
the full verse form of the ballata. They are quite normal otherwise.
Like the madrigals, the two-part compositions among the ballate reflect
for the most part earlier tendencies. They differ in musical style from the twopart madrigals mainly in the length of the melismatic passages at the ends of
phrases and consequently in the ornateness of their figures. Among the threepart ballate are many works for a single voice and two instruments, reflecting
the tendency toward the chanson of the fifteenth century. In a considerable number of the three-part ballate the closing measures of both sections are identical,
thus enhancing the homogeneity of the music.
In transcribing these ballate one encounters less use of the earlier
Italian notation with the changeable Breve and via artis, but a greater use of
white notation for changing metres. Inconsistency is frequently noted in the
middle of a section at phrase endings, where the sizes of final note and rest at
times vary even between parts in the same manuscript.
VI. The Musical Style

In these compositions of Francesco the entire history of music for nearly
ten centuries may be traced. Signs of organum, improvised descant, conductus,
even of the monodic tropes and plain-song are plentiful. At the same time 'there
are experimental uses of the triad in partial cadences and simple attempts at imitation between parts, both indications of the direction that musical style was to
take in the following century.
Yet one should not conclude that this music is an artificial creation,
full of mechanical devices. While the reading of the printed page of music may
encourage such a view, listening to it gives one an entirely different impression.
Nothing could be more natural and spontaneous than these works, especially the
ballate, which reflect in their symmetry of structure a close association with
the music of the people, as contrasted with the cloistered music of the church.
The principal melody in this music, whether madrigal, caccia, or ballata,
is always to be found in the superius or upper part. The difference between the
melodies of the three forms is only one of degree: those of the madrigals are
most florid, that of the caccia most rhythmic and marked with bits of hocket,
while those of the great mass of ballate vary, sometimes being very simple and at
other times approaching the florid nature of the madrigal melodies. Almost any
one of Francesco's melodies opens with a florid melismatic passage on the initial
syllable, followed by a syllabic passage until- the penultimate syllable is
reached, where there is another melismatic passage until the final syllable is
reached at the cadence. 56 These melodies follow closely the diatonic progressions and simple skips of the traditional plain-song, 57 the chief difference being
56
For a discussion of the controversies over the instrumental implications of these passages,
cf. the author's article, 'Francesco Landini and his Music,1 Musical Quarterly, XXII, 190.
57
Note the two augmented Seconds which appear in the melodic line of no. 144 as found in P.
INTRODUCTION
xxxi
the increased variety of rhythm in the music of Francesco. This variety of rhythm
is seen in the use of ornamental groups of notes of smaller values which many
times assume the nature of an instrumental figure. Some of these figures are
listed in the following section.
The tenor part is always the simplest melodically. If it has a text its
resemblance to the superius increases, although it seldom has the groups of small,
ornamental figures. In the later three-part ballate where the tenor is given
without text the diatonic element is at times almost nonexistent. The skips become more constant and of larger proportions, sometimes including the Seventh and
Ninth, which are never found in the parts with text. At such times the part is
written almost entirely with ligatures.
The contratenor, found only in the three-part compositions, is a curious
composite of the style of the superius and that of the tenor. This is due to its
harmonic role, which will be discussed below. The contratenor contains many of
the figures which the superius uses, often in direct imitation of the latter, yet
it is never written as diatonically as is the latter. In every part there is a
brief pause at the end of each phrase of text, dividing the music into corresponding phrases.
The following metres are used in this music:
3/1
4/2
6/4
3/2
9/4
a triple-simple metre, corresponding to the French perfect mode, time

and prolation imperfectused in 48 works.
duple-simple metre: mode, time, and prolation all imperfectin 53
works.
duple-compound metre: time imperfect, prolation perfectin 26 works.
triple-simple metre: time perfect, prolation imperfectin 28 works.
triple-compound metre: time and prolation both perfectin 8 works.
In addition to the above there are 7 works which, owing to an odd number
of Breve values, we have been forced to transcribe in 2/2 metre, time and prolation both imperfect. Thus in 108 works the divisions of Breve and Semibreve are
both duple, whereas in only 8 works are they both triple. The Long is duple in
all save 48 instances. The Breve is triple in only 36 works, the Eemibreve in 34.
In all the madrigals save 3, the metre changes at the beginning of the
ritornello section. In 5 of the entire list of compositions there are metrical
changes within a section. These are nos. 3, 70, 75, 134, and 141. In the case
of no. 134 the metre changes eleven times during the course of the work. Frequently minor changes from duple to triple patterns are made by the use of white
notation or the special devices of notation discussed in a previous section. The
most complicated of these is no. 93, where the introduction of white notes of all
sizes from Long to Minim continually varies the pulse. An interesting change in
the time values, although one not affecting the basic metre, is found in the comparison of manuscript copies of no. 33. In R. the note values are twice as long
as in the other manuscripts.
The use of syncopation is frequently resorted to in the melismatic passages especially at the ends of sections. One of the longest of such passages is
the following:
xxxii

No. 129
Hocket is frequently used with moderation in these same places:

No. 127
As in the case of other mechanical devices which were introduced prior to this
time they are both used with artistic discretion.
Although we continually hear discussions of the freedom of mensural notation as contrasted with the tyranny of the written bar-line, we are not at all conscious of any such contrast when this music is actually performed. Indeed when
taken at a brisk tempo there is a splendid pulse to these works, especially the
ballate, for the value of each Long or Breve has the effect of being a measure
apart from every other such value, with only occasional suspensions from the preceding measure and then in but a single part.
In the two-part compositions, and in the two first-composed parts of the
three-part works, i.e., the superius and tenor, there are clear traces of that
style of improvised descant based on an alternation of Fifths and Octaves which
the Anonymous III describes. 58 The following example is one of the simplest to
be found; usually the progression is less obvious. This style furnishes the basis
for all work in contrary motion.
No. 30
Parallelism is often noted in this music, but like all other devices is
used in moderation. The same interval is seldom used more than twice consecutively. Most of the intervals which one would expect to find are usedthe Unison,
58
Coussemaker, Scriptores, I, 325 ff.
xxxiii
INTRODUCTION
Octave, and Fifth of organum, and the Third and Sixth of Gymel. The Fourth is
used but seldom as an interval in two-part writing, and consecutive Fourths are
even rarer. Parallel Seconds or Sevenths are so uncommon that we question the accuracy of the notation where they are found. One fact which must be borne in mind
when examining parallelism in this music is that to the composer of this period
the slightest melodic embellishment or passing-tone sufficed to remove the stigma
of excessive use of this device.
When a third part, the contratenor, is added to this music it serves as
the harmonic complement to the two previously written parts. If these are at a
.consonant interval such as the Octave the contratenor supplies the Fifth between
them, while if they lie at a point where dissonance is desired the contratenor
supplies the third tone of the triad. With the contratenor there frequently occur
brief bits of faux-bourdon which a*re used to prolong the space between a dissonance and its resolution.
No.-122
33Êp
3
2=
As we noted in the use of descant and organum, the character of this device varies
from a simple succession of first inversions to an independent progression of
Thirds beneath an elaborate figuration or syncopation.
Anyone examining Francesco's music does not proceed far before becoming
acutely conscious of the fact that triads while plentiful are nevertheless treated without exception as a dissonance (or 'imperfect consonance,1 as the contemporary writers called it) of two superimposed Thirds. This is borne out in the
treatise of Prosdocimus de Beldemandis, De Contrapuncto, written in 1412 near
Padua;
Item sciendum quod comblnationum consonantium quedam sunt perfecte
et quedam imperfecte; perfecte sunt, scilicet: unisonus, quinta et istis
equivalentes, uti sunt octava, duodecima et huiusmodij . . . . Imperfecte
sunt, scilicet: tertia, sexta, et sibi equivalentes uti sunt decima,
50
tertia-decima et hujusmodi .
The intervals actually termed 'dissonantes' are the Second, Fourth, and Seventh,
or their equivalentsintervals used in this music only in passing. With Francesco the Unison, Fifth, or Octave, or in three-part writing the two latter combined,
represent consonance from which one moves directly to a dissonance based on a
Third or a triad consisting of two superimposed Thirds. From this in turn there
50
Coussemaker, Scriptores, III, 195.
xxxiv
is a smooth progression back to consonance, as in the following instance:

No. 105
Francesco is not afraid to use dissonance with remarkable freedom, however. Thus
in a few instances he begins the second section of a work with the dissonant
triad, although he resolves it promptly.
No. 106
4-*
While he is still conservative enough to avoid this at the beginning of the first
section, the effect is frequently approximated by a direct movement into the triad from the initial consonance.
No. 143
.fli
y,
Likewise at the first ending or verto of the second section he frequently uses
the triad in much the same manner as we use the partial cadence today.
No. 137
+2/
''
^ i
INTRODUCTION
XXXV
Because of the manner in which triads are formed, i.e., by the juxtaposition of
two Thirds between the three parts as they are written horizontally, there is no
marked preference for any particular form; augmented, major, minor, and diminished
triads are all found as the occasion permits.
Francesco's cadences are based primarily on the principle of complete diatonic progression. The one exception to this statement is found in the melodic
progression which the Riemann Lexikon calls the Landinosche Sext. This is used
infrequently in all types of cadences by all the ars nova composers in Italy.
No. 52
In the two-part works diatonic progression to the consonant interval desired is a

comparatively simple matter. In the three-part works there are two distinct patterns employed. The first consists of contrary motion in the outer parts with an
independent inner part.
No. 10
5EE*E
The second pattern makes use of the faux-bourdon device.
No. 11
nN
b|
1/ *
U,
Almost without exception the root of the consonance is approached from the tone
above it; the Fifth is approached from the tone beneath; and the Octave is reached
from the first or second tone beneath.
Theorists of the Middle Ages and Renaissance wrote a great deal about the
Gregorian modes and about a modal theory for melody; none of them succeeded in
formulating an adequate theory of the tonality which evolved in the polyphonic
music during this period. Such descriptions of the music as we find consist of
accounts of proper progressions and consonances, most of the pages of the treatises being devoted to descriptions of the complicated system of notation. An
xxxvi
organized study of tonality still remains to be completed. In this discussion of

the music of a single composer in a narrowly circumscribed period, we can offer
only an idealization of the basic traits which we have observed as material upon
which such a study may in part be based.
One defect in our methods of musical scholarship, in the past at least,
seems to be the tendency to go to the two extremes in the. interpretation of a
given problem before the correct middle ground may be found. This has been the
case as regards several aspects of this music, tonality being one such aspect.
The first of the modern writers assumed that these compositions were based as a
matter of course on the Gregorian modes which the contemporary theorists wrote
about. Later writers who were able to examine a little more of the music, and
who saw at once the considerable chromaticism, jumped to the other extreme and
proclaimed the use of a major tonality. Actually a middle channel is the correct
solution in this case as in so many others, for we witness the traces of Gregorian
influence in the melodic line, traces greatly modified when combined with the
other melodies with resultant adjustments.00
Francesco's music uses the following chromatics: c*, jff, j * , tf , occasionally (, and once jr . Sometimes these are indicated in places where the current laws of musica flcta would supply them in any case. At other times they are
carefully placed to'indicate a breaking of these laws, apparently for the sake of
a definite tonal effect. Their use in musica fl&ta can best be summarized by
quoting an example from the writings of Prosdocimus de Beldemandis, the theorist
whose works describe most closely the style of this music and its notation.
Coussemaker, Scriptores, III, 199
. r r
These two parts illustrate the use of musica ficta in the melodic line. Actually
Prosdocimus bases his rules on the perfection of the interval involved, using
musica ficta to make the pitches of the interval as close as possible to those of
the following consonance.
B_ is frequently used in the key signature, _b and jr are used together
twice in the signature. We cannot detect any marked difference in tonality between these compositions and the many others which secure the same effects through
the insertion of the accidentals in the course of the parts. One composition,
no. 34, appears in different 'keys' in different manuscripts. In ,S. the work
opens and closes with the consonance on jl. In F_. it is transposed down a Fifth
throughout and has the accidental b; added in the signature of the one part that
would use that tone.
In the following table, which outlines the harmonic structure of the 49
three-part ballate, fche predominant finals used are jc and d. The other two finals
used are X a n d . ** is certainly no coincidence that these two latter finals,
60
The effect of polyphony on the Gregorian modes is graphically summarized by the decree of
Pope John XXII in 1522. Cf. the Oxford History of Music, I, 294.
xxxvii
INTRODUCTION
both a Fifth below .c and d, respectively and in a Subdominant relationship thereby,

should appear much more frequently in compositions bearing the signature of one
flat, bj' . We have chosen the three-part ballate for this tabulation since they
constitute a l l save four of Francesco's three-part works, and since the definite
feeling of tonality is more pronounced in the three-part works. The table shows
the various i n i t i a l consonances of the f i r s t section which are used in conjunction
with the corresponding final consonances of that section. I t must be remembered
that in the ballate this section both opens and concludes the work. The table indicates for the second section the i n i t i a l consonances, the final consonance in
the verto (wj.th stanza two), and that of the chiuso 01 (with stanza three). 6 3
First section
Second section
No. of
Initial:
Final:
Initial:
Verto:
-e
-e
-e
Chiuso
times used:
d
d
d
18
1
1
d-
-g
-g
edc-
-d
-d
c
c
-e
-e
-e
c
c
c
-c
-c
-c
-c
l
l
ad-
-a
-a
2
g
c
61
In works which do not use a f i r s t and second ending ne have indicated the final consonance of
the section under the heading chiuso.
6s
The single letter used in the table, e . g . , the f i r s t <I, indicates the use of any one of the
following consonances based on that pitch: Unison, Fifth, Octave, Octave with Fifth, and more
rarely a triad as indicated above.
xxxviii
Second section
First Section
Initial:
Final:
Initial:
Verto:
Chiuso
No. of
times used:
In the first patterns are represented more than one-third of the compositions examined. In the following table are indicated the most common individual rather
than composite patterns:
Second section
First section
Initial:
No. of
times used:
Final:
Initial:
Verto:
Chiuso:
These tables tell their own storyof the predominance of a tonality

built on the consonances of .d. But most prominent of all is the fact brought out
by the relationship between the two sections. Notice how many times, in the case
of a first section tonality built on sL, the second section is built on the js or
supertonic, taking advantage of the chiuso to return to a tonic cadence; this is
also true of the related key . In the case of the tonality on c_ and its relative JT, the subsidiary section is sometimes built on the supertonic, but in an
equal number of cases it is placed on the mediant tonality.
VII. The Role of Instruments

An elaborate discussion of the several controversial aspects regarding
the performance of this music lies outside the scope of this present work. For
an evaluation of the theories which have been advanced, the reader should consult the writer's article in the Musical Quarterly for April 1936. For an excellent survey of the instruments of this period, consult Gerold, La musique au
INTRODUCTION
xxxix
moyen age, chapter XX, and the references given by that author. We shall limit
ourselves here to a discussion of the instrumental elements and evidences found
directly in connection with Francesco's music.
That instruments were used to a considerable degree none will deny. The
parts given without texts have intervals difficult or impossible to sing, and
have an excessive use of ligatures which again excludes the possibility of singing.
No. 119
In the frequent instances where the ballata parts have texts omitted in one or
more manuscripts, but not in others, there is a constant simplification made by
omitting repeated notes and by using more ligatures.
No. 116 in S.
in F.
These parts must have been performed on instruments.

With two exceptions03 parts such as the above were always the tenor and
contratenor parts. Occasionally, especially in the madrigals, there is a short
passage without text between the final syllable of one phrase and the opening
syllable of the following phrase; this is likewise of an instrumental nature. In
all the above instances the lower range of the parts, their simpler nature with
few melismatic figures, the use of the larger skips, all lead us to believe that
they were performed on stringed instruments such as the viol and lute.04
The florid superius part, while not showing any of the characteristics
described above and while always having a carefully placed text, nevertheless has
many small figures in the melismatic passages such as the following, figures that
are typical of the possibilities of a simple wind instrument or a keyboard instrument like Francesco's own organetto. The higher range and faster tempo of
these parts would be more readily handled on these instruments\. *5
63.'No.
126 in B.. and no. 143 in the Prague MS.

Cf. the sonnets on p. xli below.
65
Vlllani '...manuque adeo velocissima,...organa tangere coepit..
64
xl
ty o
1i j
No. 39
No. 4 1
No. 4S
No. 50
No. 52
Undoubtedly there was considerable adjustment for the immediate occasion as regards manner of performance. This is attested by the lack of texts for certain
parts in some manuscripts, by the change in time values of no. 33, and by the
transposition of no. 34.
As regards the instruments which actually appear in connection with this
music66 we find the standard ones of the day. On the illuminated folio of the
Squarcialupi codex at the beginning of the section devoted to Francesco's music
there are portrayed two organetti, two groups of pipe-like instruments, a psaltery, and three forms of the lute. On the tombstone, in addition to Francesco's
organetto there are viol and lute. While Giovanni da P"rato 6 7 and other contemporaries always associate him with the organ, Villani 68 speaks of Francesco's
s k i l l On a l i s t of instruments which comprises practically a l l the common instruments of the period. The description of the performance of no. 100 given by
Sercambi and of no. 138 by da Prato do not specify regarding the performance except to say that they were sung and played.
The one definite connection between music and instrument in the works of
Francesco is found in the following sonnets of Prodenzani, nos. 33 and 34 from
the section entitled Mundus Placitus in his 11 Saporetto. 69
66
The only mention of an instrument in the verses themselves i s a reference to Orpheus and his
lyre (no. 12), where the instrument i s doubtless as mythological as i s the player.
67
I1 Paradiso.
68
Cf. the Documents below.
S9
Edited by Debenedetti, Giornale storica d'ella letteratura italiana, Suppl. 15 (1913).
INTRODUCTION
No. 33.
xli
Con lo liuto fe ballo amoroso

E ll'alvadanga e'l trotto et la striano
Cio che lui fa stamp!ta par sorana,
Se fecto avesse Chi ama '1 delectoso.
Voleti udir se lui fo virtuoso?
Che venir fe' una pigmatta sana;
Con essa lui vi fe 1 la chiarintana,
Puoi fece Matre mia, questo gilloso.
Con la chitarra fe 1 suoni a tenore
Con tanta melodia, che a ciaschuno
Per la dolceija gli alegrava '1 core.
Con la cetera ancor ne fece alcuno,
Puoi venner pifar sordi cum tenore:
Solago incontenente ne prese uno.
No. 34.
Stregnie le labbra fiero incontenente,

Da puoi fecer Con gli occhi assai ne miro/ 0
De, pon questo amor giu, 71 et, con suspiro,
L'alma mia piango 72 et puoi fe 1 Polgli inente.
Tu si mi vuoi ferire amaramente
Fecoro ancor, Galiaga et Bel siro,
Vostre belleqe li miei sensi apriero,
Gram pianto agli occhi 7 3 non gli uscier di mente.
L'altra sera puoi venner suon d'archetto,
Rubebe, rubechette et rubecone,
Ch'a tucta gente diedar gran dilecto;
Tanto me piacque et puoi Gram pena pone
Vi fecer su, ma tucti non le metto
Per non tenervi in piu longhi sermone.
According to Sachs, 74 the chitarra was a small instrument of the lute family.
Gerold 7 5 describes the cetera as an instrument in the form of a vielle or early
viol, but which was plucked. The pifar, according to Sachs,74 was a transverse
flute much like our fife today. These three instruments and their use in connection with the music furnish the one precise description of contemporary performance. Note that they are all played 'cum tenore' part.
70
No. 27.
No. 34.
72
No. 127.
71
73
No. 123.
der Musikinstrumentenkunde.
Les instruments
de musique au moyen age,1
7 5 |Handbuch
Revue des Cours et Conferences (1928).
xlii
VIII. The System of Transcription

The following notes are used in the original manuscript:76
1
Maxima,
Long,
J 1
Breve,
*
Semibreve, Minim,
Semiminim
The corresponding rests:
Their modern equivalents:
These values have been reduced one-half in the transcriptions as follows:
r i
The c, and _f clefs are used consistently on a six-lined staff. In the transcriptions, for purposes of convenience, we have substituted th . clef for the _c clef,
but all the pitches remain the same as in the manuscript.
When a time signature is given'in the manuscript it is reproduced below.
The modern signatures, and all other additions by the editor, are given in
parentheses. Either the Long or the Breve value is used as a unit for each measure; the bar-lines are solid only where points of division occur in the original.
All musica ficta which has been suggested by the editcr is placed above
the note concerned; this has been kept down to a minimum, so that more might be
needed in many cases for performance of the music. All accidentals placed before
the notes were so placed in the various manuscripts. If a sharp appears in the
manuscript in the role of a natural, the latter is given in the transcription.
Ligatures are indicated thus: w* . There is so much variation in
their use in the different manuscripts, without any change in the value of the
notes concerned, that the transcriptions show only the ligatures of S.. or of the
only manuscript in which the particular work is found.
76
Cf. section IV for a comprehensive discussion of the problems of this notation.
INTRODUCTION
xliii
Too much credence must not be placed upon Individual progressions of an

unusual nature in those compositions appearing in only one manuscript. As will be
noted by a comparison of many of the variants given in connection with works ap pearing in several manuscripts, there are enough variants which are obvious errors
on the part of the copyist to make us extremely careful in accepting any unusual
melodic or harmonic progression as the true intention of the composer. The transcriptions, however, have followed the rendering of the copyist in such passages
unless otherwise indicated in the notes.
All melodic and rhythmic variations are indicated in the notes. Many
cases in which a note is sustained in one manuscript through the rest given in
others, without otherwise affecting the rhythm, are not indicated.77
In such
cases the part is given in the manner used in the majority of the manuscripts concerned.
We have been able to identify the authors of the texts of but fourteen of
Francesco's compositions. In no manuscript of music is the author of the text indicated, but a check in all published anthologies pertaining to this period has
shown that of these Franco Sacchetti wrote three ballata texts and one madrigal.
Carducci78 gives the text of another sonnet by Franco, Ne te ne altra voglio amar
gia mai, with the common caption 'Franciscus de organis sonum dedit,1 but the
music to this work is not known. We know that Francesco himself wrote at least
eight of the ballata texts and one madrigal. He was well known as a poet so that
it is quite likely that the bulk of the verses are by him. One ballata may be
credited, to a Bindo d'Alesso Donati, and the caccia was written by Gianarozzo
Sacchetti, a brother of Franco who was beheaded 15 October 1379 for his part in a
conspiracy against the Florentine state.
All of the verses are in the Florentine vernacular except no. 101, the
ballata Adiu, adiu dous dame Iolye. This one exception has been quoted by several
writers to show the French influence in this music. Judging by the style and the
location in the Squarcialupi codex it is a late composition.
The texts, as prepared by Professor McLaughlin, are drawn from .S. with the
modifications found necessary for clarity after an exhaustive collation with the
other manuscripts. No attempt has been made to modernize either vocabulary or
spellings. Variants in spelling, as found in S.. between the superius and tenor
parts, are preserved in this edition except where they obscure the meaning of the
passage. Frequently this variation is of a phonetic character; othertimes it is
due to the demands of musical phrasing as in the second phrase of no. 85, or the
third phrase of no. 133.
The compositions are arranged and numbered alphabetically according to
their form:
Two-part madrigals
1 9
Three-part madrigals . . . . 10 - 12
Pescha
13
Two-part b a l l a t e
14 - 100
Three-part b a l l a t e
101 - 149
Two-part frammenti
150 - 154.
E.g., o o -
Le rime di Cino
78
e d ' a l t r i . . . . , p. 487.
SIGLA
S.
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pal. 87
F.
Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Pan. 26
B.
London, British Museum, Add. MS. 9,987
R.
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Fonds fr. nouv.

acq. 6771
Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Fonds ital. 568
ICADRIALLE
1.
S.
; F.
Ji
^ 6 6 *i
US
iO-
in
=1=
-&
= &
to
TJJJJJJJJ
in
ien - - - - - -
__o
t^
],I!JJ^JT7JTJT1
-r-fc;
i-
--t.
-I
<o
ij!,.
4lv-42r.
ri
\S\ . .. - t
2. Et che
niun el rlmanga d'amore
Perch1 a llui non ne pala esser
cambiato
C'amor vuol che chl ama si1 amato
3 Et che niun
amante si disperl
Per lung1 amar che gjugnendo agli 9 effetto
Ognl suo pena tornera in diletto.
1. Note that the opening syllable is repeated after the melisma, suggesting
that it was to be sung. This also occurs in no. 7 and 127.
2. This sharp Is omitted in S.
3. This sharp appears only in S.
4. An f In S.
5 Note the~"followingfour measure sequence. In F. this reads:
j,
6. In F;
J J, J j 7 . I n 2 , j j , j ^ , ) -
j j |
8. In F. these extra stanzas come after the first section, before the rltorpellQ.
9. Carlucci (Opere,VIII.381) gives these stanzas in the above order but witfi
the rltornello at the end.
10. In F: 'all'effetto1.
2.
S.127r; B. 80v-8lr.
&
.-^-
-O
i nI
L-
I.
- - .If
M i
v i
i4=
D,..
Lei
oes-l+A
f ft'f f
v-
\nSo
2. Tanto contento son del gran piacere

Dl questa vaga luce dllectosa
Che sanca lei non spero d'aver poea.
1. 5 in B.
2. In S:4
3. A point of division in B.
4. Notice the parallel octaves, a rare occurence.
5. This is not a sequence in B. which reads; p ,
6
- In ^ ; i _
7.
In
s? .
m
..
t
r?
,1
8. In B:.
35=3
-a-
9. No sharp In S.
10. A Minim rest in B. *n place of the f.
11. In B:
S.i24v; P.i
/.
Alo
IQJ,
. . . . .
f-
__
\ .
TT
^J
if 1
.A.
*Y-&
|Q
no
^J-J
X ^
1
-. -
.
1
-W
vi,
\Q
va,.
Di
JL
i
'
i,
i _ _ __o_i-p:_*
___ i ^
_f_r_
__r.
-Q-
ff f - p
\or
HM3*- ^J
Ij
ben
**-*
per
ckc
i 1~
4-
c
f
(1&_
- |
COMno-tfei
_iu
-Cr^
r*. Ten _
o
tl*
I-a.
1
--
^:
vo.. A
: - - - va.
.-
h-i
r-
-)-Q
2. Fortuna gli tenea la vista chlusa.

Contra laquale usava ogn'arte e ingegno
Sol per driparsi all' onorato segno.c
1. A point of division in P.
la.Thin flat appears first in measure seven of P; thereafter it is in the signature
in the first section.
2. Notice the simple imitation.
3. Uses-înstead of a point of augmentation.
3a. Not a point of division in P.
4. Dlvlslo duodenarla. Notice how frequently the point of division, as represented
by solid bar-lines, is used in this ritornello. This Is necessary because of the
changeable value of the Breve in this older notation.
5. In the edition of these verses by Trucchi (Poesie ltal., II, 165) the lines of
the ritornello are repeated exactly as they would be sung.
6. This sharp appears only in P.
7. InPtfl
,8. in Pi f ,
p . In Pi p
, ! , .
1
h
ÛW
iff J J ^
i
A.
S . i 2 5 r ; F.46v-47r; P.11v-12r.
1 Ken
o> gSlpec
'I
-&L
it:
spec _ . _ .
| tenli
cru.
hfcl
Qu.5--
y-p
Quti
. .
I
ra.
>~~ .
2. Cos) eperando per eegulrla invechio.

Quella spiatata fugge raguardando
Che lo sanpa mer;e ml mor
10
1. This sharp appears In F. and P.

1a.This sharp appears only In F.~
2. In *> f- \
p
-
10. F. does not have this point of division.

11. Tn F. and P /
3. A point of division In P.
4. In F and P:
5.
11a. This sharp does not appear

1.1b. In P; [
I ,
, .
i
In F:=fc
In P.
Jj
3C
12. This sharp does not appear In S.

6. In F. and P:;
13. These verses are given before the rltornello
i n F . , followed by the beginning of the f i r s t line
7. F. and P. have barlines here Instead of the Long of the rltornello.
8. Tn F. and P:-f i
i ,
i
rest.
JJ
S.128r; F.43v-44r.
ifTfrfTff;'
74T11
10
-Lai
/O - -
i
211 - - - To
1 mervI
I
75=
bia.n-ii
vaoKl
cK nl/' a)
ie
Se'
.. te.
un...
fcr.
oo
. . te
r
ml.,
til
Cen. ferma.--- t i
tu
11
di--vi.
www
tfffffff
>
0 m IL
na.,
^tyo^to-
ir
i . . .
'I
L L L'
Til
.TIL.
;cht
f&n
i
i
^ct
Til
TIL.
rT.TtfffrTTfif* O
eke
pen-- iitwiv
IU6
.-.nor'
mi
CD.
o-
t*.,
Oa
_.. nar
mi
Q.
VI
2. Pero c'all'orabra di tuo fresche fronde
Donna poasossl plena dl vlrtute
Si che In quel punto a me destl salute.f1 . This sharp appears only In F.
2. This sharp Is omitted In F.
3 . An e in F.
~
4. Thl"s b i s missing In S.
5. In F."these lines come before the r l t o r n e l l o , the f i r s t line of which i s
Indicated. The entire text has been edited by Levi( p.233).
6.
S.126v; B.5Ov-5ir.
13
i tjjjuj,., -ij.'Ji!m
rr-v
f K\ tornellol
Ven-'i. . .' .' . .1 .
=E
'. .1
?^
Q
2. St questo stato 6i a corse gran tenpo

Po che regnS si aspra slgnorla
Ch'I generato morte, odlo e resla.
Q
st*.
t. No rest In B.
2. This sharp appears In B. only.
3. S. ends at this point with a Breve on d. It Is evidently a copyist's error
Judging by the entire part as given in B.~
4. Twoflemi'breveshere In B.
~
5. A email :lrcle appears. Here between two lines of the staff In S. only. It
refers to perfect time, but Is Inconsistent with the other time indications.
6. A point of division in B. only.
7. This point of division appears only in S.
This work is definitely marked Madrlalle in B., and has thus been
useful in accurately determining the form of the madrigal.
S.127v.
r&
u^n
PPi
*J& f*SWf$
i i*/Ttfg
^r ^??
-^-ZJTZ
^'g-
Pf^
_ _. ro,
III I Hi
Otatti Ino, ion-rta., pS-|Sie
-.
^'Ba ocatii.
r";"J-W^ i^ =f
caliti chel+uD A..mor
15
/3" ^
tri^-m'c
I ar
i one
Tn.
PIU
*\on
2. Per te e la 'nflararaa nel mlo cor accesa

Che ml consuraa ond'lo a morte vegno,
M 1 Induce a dlslar quel ch'lo non degno.
I.Thls flat is Introduced before the first b (measure eight) and thereafter Is
continued in the signature of the succeeding lines.
2. This is only a Minim rest In the MS.
3. This Is an unusually long parallel passage.
4. Notice the manner In which plain consecutive Fifths are avoided.
5. The text is by Franco Sacchetti,and has been published, with an additional
stanza, by Capelli (Poesie Muslcale, p.35).
16
8.
'i Vuo* dmiita-
S.122v; F.42v-43r.
$
1
_ \M
zGi
- re,
(g)
.. da.
se
>0
O"* Trajjisn
traoi Ji-ên- -
*^m
itev 5A _ _ - '-
r
i
y?&
T
I
perto-ve IfPeiSo
tw*e
a 9
P<trr- ore Spesso Non e m
-- &>.
2. Se gludlchi secondo el tuo parere

E la ragion non vedl, 1 apesee volte
Ispregl quel che degna lode
lt
3. Dunque debba tacer chi parla affatto,
Che euo ignoranpa schuopre al uom che intende,
Cosi colui pur se medealmo offende.
18
^=^:
1. In >. the following two measures are;

2. There is a point of division here In Fi only.
3. In F: "
k. There is a point of division here in S. only.
5. The sharp appears only in F.
6. Notice this two measure sequence and Imitation of the tenor. The motive has
already appeared four times above. A few measures later it is slightly altered
in further development.
7. This sharp is in S. only.
8. This sharp ie also given only in S.. Note the tritone if it is used.
9. Duodenarla time.
~"
10. In >. this measure is:^_ ~f"f~ ~
11. In F:
12. In S:
13. F.suggests the beginning of the rltomello here; it does not give the
third stanza.
This work was first edited by Wolf^ S.^.M.G., Ill, 64iJ. It Is based
primarily on via artls and uses many points of division, here shown by the
solid bar-lines.
S.i29r; B.11v-12r.
1. V- -
19
!c
- l e ,
-QL
. . XO _.rials
j ; i ;Jpetle.in
P.
-forma
mm
*S=S
-Qrio
I f inf
-fo < fCrle.
^^r-y
Torma. u
d'i,
\VL
Tia.,
.hvJl
hon
ft
~Q~
- wia.
SO ien dirSe "fa
frftrfff
na,,
DM-3-^
ft a-.
f
O
Ma,
I
t/o..
oli
olia-
O
sie
20
<}al v O - . - o l i a .
cl>c IM-CI'CH m i
ri
III.
S.
128v-129r,
containing
No.
on
the
right
and
No.
13
on
the
left.
PIP
mo
^
fl o
!
^
_ IT 1 9-0-
uoiA.-'.
Ve
ve .
2. Dengna dl tanta rlverenca In vista,
Dama^mi panre ch'i'non B O qual dea
Si rapresenti, Phebo o Cltherea.
3. Lieta nel viso, honesta e bella quanto
Marsia mai fosse, di Catone spechlo
Chi dl vlrtute non trova parechlo..
1. This signature Is given only in B. S.has the first b lowered but none after
that until the next to the last oneT ~"
2. The time signature, octonarla, is found only in B.
3. The sharp appears only in B.
~
4. These points of division appear only in B.
5. An f In B.
6. Senaria perfecta in B.; simply perfecta in S.
7. This is the reading ^f Carduccl(Opere,VIII,362). S.reads'Da mia', B.'donna1.
8. In B.portions of the text In the first section are unaccountably missing;
stanza three is also not given.
Notice the unusual amount of sequence,imitation, and hocket which
appears in this madrigal. Judging by the style of notation and the few parallel
Fifths it is a comparatively early work. Cf. Plate III.
21
10.
din .. mi
S.125v-I26r.
"tu- tk
A.
e
ae
5-
Ê*
2
;
, Civ'.
22:
o a
=23=
- ..-\e
vo
22
e&-- - ser,
a o
ve.
ae*-,
es
LTtbT
ere
^*
flue/i
mi
.,
Mr
i Che." per o/ena.
IT
5t
,^
saw
- - j 'i
4-O-
&*=^
CJ^-^
tie
Et
+I
t k a . - - - - - M I Mo
jft
ben
-O^
23
qur I
Et
Ire- $j\,
drft
ypi
e.
tot\(ii
pa, la- Sre.
JXI
(RitotndW)
.'-to
I
dr I 6en_. ie i cer
i
is omitted in the transcription at this point, as it appears

tobe a repetition on the part of the copyist of the last of the precedins
measure.
2. Tempus perfectum is indicated in the tenor part only.
5. 5" point, possibly of demonstration, occurs in the tenor part only.
If a point of division, then the metre cannot be tempus perfectum.
This should rank as one of the greatest of fourteenth century
compositions in spite of the fact that it appears in but one manuscript.
Its canon on the Fifth is unique, as is the triple canon of the rltornello. Tftien performed, the work is remarkably coherent for such extended
canon. Note the repeated notes in frequent measures which, with a few
slight sequences of phrase and rhythm, make for greater symmetry.
25
11.
S.121v-122r; F.89v-90r; B.1Ov-11r.
26
e n d ooAviiw le.. SM.C.
27
A M . _ _ _-fe,v\
tt
_J-ta.
vuoJ Junx vir-tTU
J
Sol
non mi
Ya- V\e\V
xlem-xe. ml lie.
.
28
&- - 1
'_ _
(2)
29
1. This term appears in F. alone. It is the only time the term cantus is used
in connection with Francesco's rausic.
2. This sharp is omitted in F.
3. This sharp appears only in B.
4. This sharp is omitted in S.~
5. Here the sharp appears only In F.
6. In B. the fourth note "of this measure is _c.
7. In F. this note is sustained and the rest following it is omitted.
8. This point of. division is found only in S.
9. This is the only place in Francesco's work where this time Indication, modus
longarum perfectus, appears. It is omitted in F.
10. Note the opening triad.
11. _. has a clef here which is corrected in the next line.
12. This sharp Is found in S. only.
13. InB: '
14. This sharp is omitted in B.
15. This point of division ie in B. and F.
16. In B. and F: (?
~
1
17- In F:
^
Even though this is written in imitation of the French motets, it
still retains its madrigal character. Cf. the tritextual ballata, no. 140. The
verses have been numbered as they appear in the edition of Carducci (Opere, VIII).
We believe that they were sung in thlB order rather than simultaneously; they
would hardly make sense otherwise. Cf. the translation of the verses given near
the end of section II of the Introduction.
The entire madrigal has been transcribed and published with a facsimile
of the original by Ludwlg (Adler, Handbuch, I ) . The facsimile is also reproduced
in the Musical Quarterly, April, 1936.
30
S.123v-124r;
B.9v-iOr;
12.
is=i
JSJJ
Q*^
fc
&
O w ri W
~i'cr~
iâ
I
I
^ *
er'
it - - . - J-ce /_
irt c; g
31
- - I* ' has *
J^L
fie/ *c - * . -
- _
*I
^jj d i
- ta.
le.
. Cen
no . .
32
eiian-vna?
t$-e-a. , in
^~
. I \fc V, n _ - . - - can
O-Q
.^ ve
-\rr
i; ' vi
4^4
^:
o;
tJL,
*=*:
I
I
I
i
D;
44^r
- ne
33
1 This sharp appears only In B. and P.

2. This natural appears only in B.
3. In S: j?
, 1 , 1
:
4- This sharp is omitted in S. and P.
Aa. This Is a g In P.
~
5. This sharp appears only in F.
6. There is a point of division here only in B.
7. This marks the beginning of the repetltion~of the tenor. Notice that the upper
parts are very different from what they were before. All the MSS. except B. have
complete texts to this point, and likewise as far in the rltoraello. This is more
text than would be given at the beginning of an instrumental part, Cf. Plate IV.
8. In F. and B:
9. A sharp is given here in B.
10. In F. and " *
10a. In F. and P:
11. P. has no flat in the signature of the ritornello.
12. The tenor to the ritornello is repeated only once. The following two measures
are given as a first ending, the last two then follow as a second ending. The
second line of the verse is given beneath the first in S; other MSS. oralt it.
IV.
P.
44v-45r,
containing
No. 12.
ft PKSCHA
(Caccia)
13.
1'Oho"---'
-*
@J
'
-I
-'-
>.128v; F.45v-46r; B.39v-4Or.
s
. . . . .
.5*
1-
p^
I Pr
ps - so-
~rr-
iii
-*
f f
fiTi
_
>
pp
'
1 pie,,.
g'V I
m&
- - - , "t 4"tb Î'I

<)
1/3
^4=
36
O- l g n r
t-o
~f
t=t
-.
si
jj
e
Ô=S
_ I V&A
s
i don> n'e., A -- m.an'
37
mt
^}i\om
1. Senaria lmperfecta. This time signature Is given only in B.

2. This point of division 1 B only In F.
3. Here the point of division appears only in B.
4. There is a rest in place of this note in F.~
5. The following two notes are omitted in S.~apparently through a copyist's,
error.
6. This sharp appears in B. only.
7. The sharp is omitted In S.
8. In S:-
9. This signature, octonarla. appears only in S.

10. In Bill
11. In F:
12. In P. this measure is Identical to that in the part given above.
13. Note that we have augmented the tine values of the given notes in these
last three measures.
In S. the canon is not indicated in any manner. In F. and B. the
parts are written exactly similar except that a long rest is indicated at
the beginning of the superlus. This indication is not given for the ritornello but we venture to suggest its most plausible form, in keeping with
the cacce of other composers. Cf. Plates III and V.
The text,by Giannozzo Sacchetti, is published in Carducci, Cacce
In Rlma.
38
V.
B.
3 9 v - 4 0 r ,
c o n t a i n i n g
No.
13.
(Cf.
P l a t e
I I I ) .
BALLATE
S.i56r.
14.
0
7- Ab.
.ton -
di
I
- . Ja.
r r :r r f I
di
xir
z\\\ e.
J J! J 1
^5
-T*
I
1
Hr
&-
-.
1
1 1p
fl
I Ir
k a-i
39
1 f 11 , f 3
d'alio
I fye v to?
a=
-te.
IU.SO i
3(2}.Vuol senno con virtu e gentllepa

Dl cuore e sie cortese et lnsegnato
4(1).Cui d'oneata quel sir vedra dotato
Per servo lui terra nel suo osplpio.
5(1;.Abbonda...
1. Notice this use of the Sixth.
S.135r; F.37v.
_. vo
- - - vo.
I
i.
too
' sta
>
m.lJ
\/*
-l*r.-*
\
i
k-t'i - da.
sttl
Ckt pir ^la-Ua. d1
lVo
Cor
3(2).Or e rlvolta la euo vista bella

Si ch'a mine cresole pena e piu s'accendfr
L'alma che piange la dura partita.
4(1).Ma sse amor, el mle slgnor, m'alta
Ch'ella ver me si volga anpl^che prlvo
Io sla da vita, ancor tornera vivo.
5(1).Allexandra...
I. In P:
2.
3.
4.
5.
In F. the sharp Is here; In S. I t Is placed three noteB l a t e r .

An a in F.
This sharp appears only in F.
In F:
41
*>
pit
SoS
fe,
"ft .
i-Mlt
prei\ ... A&.
1 M.tn . . .
3- Ti\
to
f vt
trt
* y
tor
TDM
cKe
. . te*\ -
- ^
- i-
Ji
.ma.
Col
L' a.1
V
\ i M 1
tt
Ti ]
&. pi*. . . C M
as.' tî^^^ st
- -e- -e- -e- '-P-^ S

!
^-I1
f "ff
si
-j
"}
--"^"H
1-te.
'. te.
|
A(1}.D'amor ee1 sola 11 plu noblle parto

Sopr' ogn' altra gradlta
Cul adoro et Benpr1 6 nel cospecto.
5(1).Altera...
S.Uor.
^
l. Al...
Set
"to
43
t**
-f*
h\*.v\
2.
C.&.
la.
IP
m
3.
JLM
see -- ro
ver-
4(1).St^di cio a me da te non curarml

Che gram virtu e vlncer ognl affanno.
I. m l
1. There Is a measure lacking at this point.

2. The triplet was not Indicated In the MS. which thus contained one Minim too
many. Cf. the measure as given here with the fifteenth measure of the first
section.
The text is toy Franco Sacchetti and has been edited by Carduccl(Cant., p.250),
18.
S.164v; F.8v; R.26v-27r.
ff **-*
}7
ca. ..ta.
Uc.e
-9-
4LA:
son
.a.
,<
it
d***+l* i- ;P
eke ssoWsVv "te
SPero
mer
**>î
. ' . Je
t-
^ k
fii
4R.-.YX
U
^
^
de-
T^^
tYli
TA.V
d
W
Ci.V"O
1
S
j.
lj - - $l ocliil
de
be- Ît otK
1
m '
m *
CUO
1 1 . ^=p
ITI
j.
I-S
.
1J b u
"I
* * " '
- 1
'to
. .
. . .
45
. . -to.
7T_ I
3(2).Perche tu sola dannl vita puol

Tanto dlsio dl tua belle#a sento.
4(1).L'alma mle, serv1 a tte dl buon talento,
Tanto spera et dlsla
Quanto nella tua cara luce vede.
5(1).Ama donna...
1. The flat la omitted In R.
2. In R;... o
U
3 This sharp is omltten in R.

4. This point of division appears only in R.
5. This flat appears only in F, although U is Implied in the other 1ISS. due to
the b flat in the tenor part.
6. In R:-
7. This point of division i s omitted in S.

8. In S!
~.
a.
~ T, r." Zi
10. A Long in R.
~
11. In P:/
r
' '-1 "^
12. This flat is omitted in R..
13. In editing these verses, Trucchl (Poeale.I,I55) has an extra line after this.
He attributes the text to Francesco. In R. stanza four is placed before stanza
-three.
19.
lu
=
lu. ..
- - f l A.
46
S.i3or.
de
aID-H-
f n
-- - - -.
-. no,
X-
:Qr
ton
-tr-
n'w. - . ..Wil
ton
._+
re _. . ...
- J -J
J
*=Z
3(2).Pur pieghera 1'alter cor quello strale

Che rrenda a sensi el perduto vigore
4(1).St la virtu dell' eccelso splendore
RenderS pace al mlo molesto affanno.
5(1).Amor
1. A Long In the MS.
2. The MS. has an extra Semlbreve rest at this point.
3. A more logical order for the text would be::
'2.1nnamar senpre con slncero core
Ma s'umilta contra dureca vale 1 .
Unfortunately there Is no other copy of the text vlth which to check.
47
S.i23v-124r; P.64r.
.fl ue
we.
1 ue
i l l :
i
Ae.r
\/ir_
1
11
iJf - _ L o -
Si
ae
0I
;
fa*1 g
^
\e-ei _ - - -
vet
3(2).Vens'a veder costei ch'e sol vaghepa.

Ard di lei si com'a I 1 alma mia
4(1).lla, non credo, con pace tanta guerra.
5(1).Angelica....
1. This flat is in the signature of P. only. The additional ones written in the
part are .the ones given by S.
~
2 . In P: jf
~
3 . Omitted i n P .
5 In P J J
6. Point only in P. There the following measure reariafPg i . i , i I
7. Point in S. only._A
0?r > J J J j I I
J
8. An a in P.
(7L
'
9 . in F : J I
This was previously published in Schering, Gesch. der ^:uslk In Bejapl.,
with the text omitted in one part.
48
21.
S.135V.
2.
_.\
, "fe
J s'\Ai
-j'.eke.
1. Ben
few
dt..-\e
e- ^
*'-^T-^"O
/7
f t - wf-m
"t*.
C\
-t-^-
stVe
' ,o w -y-
r. r . itI.J f!^
i r . ta.
K
3(2).Onde piangendo grido a cclaacun paaso

De 1 ! dolce morte or mi fa finlre.
4(1).Poscia che mai ne mirar ne segulre
Potro l'alta belleca,
Plena d'aspreca,
Dl voi, rala guerrlera.
5(1).Benche....
49
Sk
22.
S.158V.
/.
flenc'n'..
the--^3-,
bur
IJIAV\ te r n XS - - Dec
z>
pe. .
C4.-w.-ft e
V*o
MOn m JL
-ffret.
o a:
41
t<
DtC
O O
^
. !%.
II,
to . S&
sa..
vechiepa la vede nolosa
Al guardo dl chl plu n'avea dlletto.
5(1).Benche ora plova...

Thla pallata Is written entirely with via artls. Notice that the point of
division Is used at all bar-lines except where there are ligatures and before the
final Longs. A reproduction o^f the original notation may be found in Wolf, Gesch.
d. t'ens.not., II, 94. It is transcribed In the same work, III, 128.
50
23.
S.i57v-158r; P.ioAr.
pfeEfE
i cle
/. Che
"fa? clic
cer
pc-\-si?
3(2).Dolce riposo e pace e aol nel chlaro

Etemo clelo, non qua giuso in terra.
4(1).Se ttu nol credi, credlmi ch'egli erra
Qualunque oppinion contra queat'ay.
5(1).Che fa 1 ? che penal A..
51
1. Note this unusual use of a Third at a cadence.

2. In F;
tz \ I
3. In P:
4. In P:'
f f-
5. The text has Been published by Trucchl (II, 161).

6. This stanza is indicated only in S.
L.
. . : _t
a.- u s r ffi>L.v\-w\ji fer-vec
52
3(2).Dunque atolto e qual buon vede'l piacere

Et nol prende, per dire il vo 1 piu netto,
4(1).Che rado un dolce caso tornera.
5(1)-Chi piu le vuol sapere...
1. Through some oversight this was copied into S. twice.
2. Notice how smoothly this measure of unieon fits into the general style.
25S.I571*; F.iiv; R.5ir; P.69v.

-*-^r*
>J.
BS
0T|
o\.
\v\ vl\f . . TiX
VX>n -S* 1
'^ÛiU'iA
*^-~7
eke ec--s&
it
X:
ffce
3(2).Virtu 1de t t e , g e n t i l , dove si posa

L'anim anobilisce et fallo umile
Pero"
Perd seguir d'amore el vero stile,
Virtu e'intende, l'altr'e grande e
errore.
5(1). Chi pregio.
6(2), Alcuna volta fu' degl1 ignorantl
Che diclen che virtu e donna amare.
7(2) Non conoacleva ancor i lor senbianti
Falsi da far la mente giusta errare.
8(1) Or ch'i'so quel ohe son e quanto vare
Prova m'a ttratto fuor del lor ardore.
9(1).Chi...10
t. In R. this note is sustained without the rest.

2. An a in P.
3. This measure varies in each MS.; S. is given above; in F. it
in
i T~
I J
4. The duration of this note and rest vary in each MS. eveTi between parts
5. Note this brief unison passage following a crossing of the parts.
6. In S:JJ
The same in P:
7. A b in R. and P.
8. A point~here in F. is unaccountable.
9. The following set of stanzas is given only by S. and F.
10. This stanza is indicated only in S.
54
; F.48v-49r.
f. Cam'iA A.enVr os_ \i\
. . can
der- nil 5\> . -
.. . \kf,
ler
bevte
alei ho.- M
fc.wvar
4(1).Ne raguard1 altra, avendo lei, glammay

Et per dar vita a llel mort'are'chlesto.
13(1).Com'al eegulr....
5(1).Coma seguir...
1. These are Long rests In F.

2 . In F:
6(2).Et or ml vegglo, pur bene sperando,

Amor, del mlo eervlr, esser tradito.
7(2).Da llel ancor del che e'l come e'l quando
Tacer ml pare per non eeser udlto.
8(1).Con lsperanpa dl mostragll a dlto
Quanto'l tradlrml euo e dleonesto.
9(1).Coma...
11
iO(2).Pero mle nuova nello stremo morso

Vedl che son de dlt quando m'a offeso
11(2).Coflte' da chu Bperav' aver eoccorso
Che pur demay el plu gravoBO peso
i2(1).0nd'e partito fra mle sosplr preso
Dl star fugglendo.
55
3. The following stanzas are glvetx.

only In F.
4. The remaining lines, found In
F. only, are obscure.
27S.i57v; F.49v-5or; P.99r.
do-
re
p i p f ? fi f
we
f !f r f!f
Sos . . . |
ro
^
Cu .
^wî
56
r f
^
Ei-
4(1).Dunque slgnor, che'l sal,

Scuoprl le el mlo dolore,
Dilleê'more sanca colpa In martlro.n
5(1).Cogll ochl assal...
"1. This composition uses white notation to change the division of the Semibreve
from duple to triple.
2. The tenor is given without text In F.
3. This point of division is c i v e n o n l y l n Z
4. This very necessary flat appears only in S.
5. This accidental is found only in F.
6. In F; fl
7. This point is missing ln S.

8. This accidental is found in P. only.
?0. This point is missing in P. Note the fine hocket in these measures.
11. This stanza is not Indicated ln P.
57
28.
S.U5v; F.3v; P.94v-95r.
j j
_ . B'A . J *u,r mi
lo - _ . . _
, r Iv f
Ax
ck i
58
Che ise
rne
lo
ffr
r
1
te
1
. . . fe
\-&
1
0n._.
-- te.
^
Caw
me
- Ae
i n -Tc - -1
rl i,
fi _ _
i3i^'^^
<S< me si
le u_....
n
hi
AW Jijj;<j^^
o^|Jî44^'iJi^^
jyVfnt)-
s>
- I
"jg'r-d
E
_E:
^s
PE-I
4(1).Et non ml val sosplr,

plantl, nS utrlde
Che chl dS aver merce
per plata m'odl.
t7
5(1).D'amor ml blaemo...
1. Notice this unusual key slgnatureTf. has none In the superius but uses acciaentale to &lve the same result. P. has but one flat In the euperlus but also uses
accidentals to give the same result.
2. This point of division Is given In F. cnly.
3. This point Is omitted in S.
"
4. In P. the d Is repeated In place of this rest.
5. In F:^
6. In Si
7. In F:
8. There l s ^ polnTherein P. Notice the unusual a flat which follows.
9. This point appears only ln~P.
10. F. omits this accidental; f. has It two notes later.
11. "These points are omitted In F.
12. This accidental Is omitted In _S.
15. In F:__,
r
14. In F:_
15. This accidental appears In F. only.

16. In F;
p tfr | .
17. This stanza Is not Indicated In P.
59
29.
. co/
Car
tkt
\IB MiiL
61
)&\5v>ev>A.o
cLmwaL
A\<a^ I p
_ . .
a I - -par
.-
_ |-rn.
- -
PenSter f.arvlen
. ~f~
3(2).Piango la mie fortuna per ch'io sento

Da suo salute ogni mie ben divlso,
4(1).SI che sla di pleta m'e'l cor conquiso
Da llagrime e eoapir cotanteâparte.
1. A Long rest in the MS.
2. A Minim rest in the MS.
3. 'contate1 in the ::s.
60
v SPero'
/via, no s
30.
S.i50r.
0a.
*wm
</;'/
m<c
-fe-
rf
i
L
jT
rf
001
Ah
KV
\.
-
A-re,
r r i1 \r~fre.
-_
SLC
per--
#Ht
|. . _
-r
I
R1
rA
* re..
p iw.
Cow
Su....rM>.
a-
Cov\
J. *7Zu
> Y
P
h
tfHM
r*
61
J- r
"-"-r
3(2).Tu sola se1che m'a preso et conqulso.

Tu sola ee'mle speranca, mle vita.
4(1).Placcitl dar rimedlo alia fedlta,
C'altra che tu non ml puS aitare.
5(1).Da pol che...
1. Notice this progression of successive Octaves and Fifths, an echo of the art
of Improvised dlscant described by an anonymous writer of the thirteenth century.
Cf. Girold, La tnuslque au moyen a*ge, p.424, or Coussemaker, Script., I, 325.
2. These were each Longs in the U S .
cd.
"tie.
1
&. (. lido
fk . .lioo
fe
C . . .
n ~ . . . . n.s . .
tre \
w ^
3^?
. - .ri.
Et
S
Sit
I te.T
te
CA\I
di
j = ^ f
ft
TvAva
=P
w*'.
ri.,
<fl
...
-^Wi
"Tl" - mo. "tktto
r if
M>O live
IPî
i ^^
f r;f^
rtioir
... te
=cc
^
ri-
6S
5l
Stu
ntn
C A A t* dJk
p&'V I
A(1).Forse suo crudelta che a lasciata

L'alma tanto ondeglare ch'elle si
fura,
Piatosa fia et ara del servo cura.
5(1).Da ppo c'a tte rinasce l'core...
-fca.
1. Note the extreme rhythmic complexity of this measure.

2. This use of a Semibreve rest instead of two Minim rests in a compound metre is
rare.
3. 'prest'a1 as given in- the tenor part is the proper readinc- The extra '1'
is a nonsense vo'.vel added for the nusic.il pulse.
63
32.
S.149r.
=p
O
"&
/. bey! ' cliff
*
a/, hu.iv
. _ L
e?&
I
I
I
......Lr
S'
rtifir.
f v ir
2. Nl
**:..
i r.r.i
-
Hit:
:%. .J
-Q-
. - we
S
Del
,_oo
f ? j
m-|
. - re..
J- re
~ - r - -- -
!r r >?
4(1).D'ogsl In domane, e qual fu 1 , sono ancora,

Cosi talor aviene per troppa fede.
5(1).De'! che ml G l o v a *
T".' These measures are necessarily small because of the odd number of Breve values.
2. A Long In the M S .
33.
m
1.
S.144v; F.
(J)@
&\
^
dx
Dejncn ?u
^ #
I. De.'rmn fn
QIP
^c
I 1TV\C
VA.
-g*
* ^
VI.
I
I
in
ttz
mmc
^
4AO
65
vii -
v _
&
3
. _ - sta
"two servo,
i
it
i
3(2).Che chi mal fa e pur segue l'errore

Piu da reputare magior difetto.
A(1).Dunque segui d'amore el dolce effetto
Che nel mlsero petto
Ritorni el bene che gia solea avere.
5(1).De'l non fugir....
1. This' sharp is omitted in R.

2. This point of division appears only in F.
3. This sharp appears In F. only.
"
"
In this composition are found the shortest note values to be found in

any of Francesco's music. In R. it appears doubly augmented, so that the note
values are there the customary ones.
66
34.
S.144r; F.2r.
3
I-S2.
povi
1 u f ST'
r5^
.A
te
5"
Do . . \/e.
i/e
67
4(1).D1 lei degno non se1

Ne* a llel degno pare
Che tu la degi' araare.
Leva dunque el pensier; non amar plu.
5(1).(DeM pon 1 quest'....) 9
6(2).Levar non potrei mal
II mio amor da llei
Tanto legato m'a\
7(2).Et tu sempre staraj
Coo pena e dolglie, o mei!
Tuo non si curera
8(1).Cierto nessun lo sa,
Donna dl gran valore,
A picciol servldore
j
Per sofferenca gia benigna fu.
9(1).(De 1 ! pon 1 quest 1 ....) 9
1O(2).A quest' a chu non cale
Di questa ballatetta con riverenca di 1
11(2)-Che pa ben che nol vale
Ma fuggir la saetta non puo la qual sent^.
12(1).E'sl forte 1 1 ferl
Che chura pocha pacle.
Se tal servo 11 splacie.
Amor lo scusa e lla sua gran virtu.
13(1).De1! pon 1 quest1 amorglH....
1. In F. this entire composition is transposed a Fifth down. In the superius the
signature contains one flat (b) thus maintaining a corresponding tonality. In the
tenor the same result is achieved by the omission of sharps and the addition of
one flat throughout the part. This is the only work of Francesco's which has been
transposed thus between two MSS.
* I n ^ j j ! J J-i J JJI J'J I
3. In F:_
-+-r
4. This sharp i s omitted in the transposed P.
5. In F there i s a flat before this note which would be a b.
6. I n F : *
, i
7. In F:
8. In JV
=iP^
9. This stanza should'be assumed here although it is not Indicated in either MS.
10. The remaining stanzas appear only In F.
11. The verses up to this point have been published, with considerable variation,
by Carducci (Cant., p.318) and by Trucchi (Poe_3_le_, II, 153). The latter accredits
them to Francesco.
68
35.
S.149v.
&+&
Sosp'i . . . . r i r
d J JjQ
\le . !. oenio
L \>en . . .
So
Co*v
STretfo
pc*" sen
nieivla cer bf\--
#=
L*.
J.Tt
El
can--Sen
ffjg
sC zUe Tfi
te
I y]o\ aêr $(> |
T4w o '
,, j g fTjrpf
Con.irw - - - -Tc
Vol . . e<?r \
ock". "ho
ses
3(2).Non trovando all1 affanno

Rimedlo alcun, tanto sono In martire
4(1).Et asaai ml raggiri
Che ne 1 pensler mi pala aver fallato.
Ma pur s'i'sono errato
Placciatl fame chlara la mie mente.
5(1).De'!
69
sospirar....
36.
3.146r; F.i2r.
-X\
g
i <3
rl
Vol ._O( O(|' achi
JJJ
J r '
P
C>\
j'
^ a l f i Vn-me.
J
i r.
j=4= H
J ^ o ^ \o<
ft" ff
I'
- - -
.i
> i-rrrn
^
I
if
tf
n1!^
=rg[
r"&\
ffvf
g-gH
sS
en.t
70
-fa).
4(1).Per che quando 11 tuo e plu serrato _

Tanto plu arde e piu fla donn'altruj:
5(1).Do1! volgl gll oohl...
1. This signature Is not given In F. The flats written in the part are those of_.
2 . In F: p
~
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
This sharp is in F. only.

A c In S.
This flat Is in F only.
There Is a rest In F. in place of the d.
Semibreves in both MSS.
A Long In S.
These stanzas are In F. only.
\.\A\
~ CJ
O ,
7 Oo\ - Ce.
i cnii le.
Sio - no
deo- m"--,
I I _
~cr
.'
Q
Ve J i
"fa,
-^" i :
e>^ g' o
ae^t'<l' Vutx",
_ ^>^ "TTc - i
71
to
4-
I U - .
- -a-
it
. -
lAor
3(2).Fa creder che no sla quel ch'e provatto,

Ne piu cerchare saper quando cl chiama.
4(1).A1! fugle lui e ll'esercito brama
Di quel ch'e glusto e In vita ti reggie.
- m a,.
1. The form of this work Is definitely marked Ba32ata above the music in the MS.
Like many of the compoaltlons in B. this la written so inaccurately one wishes
there were another copy extant. Each liberty which has been taken in the transcription has been indicated, however, in the following notes.
2. There 1 B an extra Breve rest here.
3. This note Is a Long in the MS.
4. A Breve rest in the MS.
5. This was a 3emlbreve in the MS.
6. Note the Third which begins this section.
38.
S.I50V; R.36v; P.1o4v-1O5r.
St n T i
W6k\
Si
*V\O
^ _
to
m
re.
re.
, fro
t/, CL I sAj^tVa.
\a.
pvo 72
A *-
"
f*
^ _ _
__
_ _ _ _
>
VI.
P.
104v-105r,
containing
No. 148 above
and No. 38 beneath.
-TriLY\
Soseiv ^ra.-\/o
-- Si-
3(2).Tenpo nS lloeo non guardan se dire

Poseon farml morlre
Mostrandosl angosciosy
4(1).Et s'allor par nostrl oehl esser pletosl
SI vantan che nno portlan dentr'al core
II lor amore. K
Chl'l sa fatt'a lla prova.
5(1).Donna,che d'amor
1. This point of division Is In R. only.

2 . White notation Is used here and In similar places In this composition.
3 . This sharp Is omitted In R.
4. This point is In P. only.

5. This point ls.ais.1lng In .
Ji-g6. In R: J
7. This sharp is in R. only.

8. In B; |
,
~
i The same in P::
9. This stanza isyndicated only in S.
This ballata is referred to by the Anonymous V (Coussemaker, Script.III.
395-6) as follows:
'And NICOLAUS DE AVERSA, of the order of the Celestines,
said that when CECHUS DS FLORENTIA placed red Imperfect
Semibreves in the dlscant of his ballade he did not err,
but rather did he make a mistake in placing red Semibreves in the tenor, since the tenor is of minor prolaThe unknown author goes on to discuss the rules as given by
Jacques de Liege
referring to the correct usage in the Gloria and Credo of PERINETUS, a 'great motet
1
Rex Karole , the cantilena of NICOLAUS DE AVERSA. He concludes:'This is the form of
CHECUS~DE~FLORENTIA, however 1 ; and then quotes the first five and one-half measures
of the superius part, and the first four measures of the tenor part.
There is no variation of notes between the MSS. in these measures; however in the use of points Anonymous V agrees with P. which may mean that he was
familiar with that MS. Eventhere the tenor does not use any red notes or their
equivalent in white notation in spite of the reference to them. Cf.Plate VI.
73
39.
S.HAr.
u&tm * +. j^^t
ê-i
--I
*
i.
tOz
ne
fij
U*\--
r <?n--
3(2) .L'sniin'e senpre dove

Vostra bilta riluce.
C/)d-- Qu
4(1).Fiamma di^vostra luce

Quanto piu sâ nascosa
Cotanto e piu la nie vita noiosa.
. _ ee..
1. A Breve re at in the MS.

2. There Is a point of syncopation here.
74
40.
75
3(2).Ne cos'al mondo so che piu m'apaghi

Che mirar te,
Ne chegglo altro plaoere.
4(1).Pero ch'a dl virtu tanto podere
La tua eoma biltate
Ch'a onestat'e amor sempre m'invita.
1. In the MS. there is a single bar-line across the staff at this point instead or
the usual Long rest.
76
41.
S.i5ir.
/.
D o n . . , . . _ .
. . . .
.. I* We
par
. Ten _ . . . . f 3.
Cltt HUH'I "6vniert-"t o l -
(Secy id 3,
^2
=1=
\\o
DAW
_C>
Z-
. . . _ _ _ _ -
. OlAl VJA .
f\o
1&
4(1).De'J non ml tor mle donna,

Amor, sanca la qual tutto ml rodo.
SI la veglo, tutto allegro godo.
1. It Is dubious whether any significance
should be attached to the fact that the
stanza ends at this point. It la such a
rare occurence that we are Inclined to regard. It an error of the copyist.
77
42.
S.1A9r.
/ Don
, u ^
1 Ptn
Tiavlo
a is _ I. p" ... zj.
s^t"--
" f ro... ao
Ls... p4''l
'
to
^
Id
"Hio fcel Vis'6
10
Va. +M
i ^
sen.,
le/.A-J. J r ;
O |
I
,
5i
dn"
3-- no ~
I
vi.
4c~ce. So
1r
IJ.Ben dovresti esser

pla.
01 me se*grata, ee
ma'tuo grandeppa
Aver tl fa dureppa
In verso 11 servo,
e curl suo guay.
5(1).Donna....
ClllMSO:
J.Thls composition Is one Breve short. The above Is offered as a likely solution.
2.Note the similarity with the last three measures of the first section.
3. As in no.41, this unusual position of the final syllable appears to be an error.
78
43.
S.15W; F.2v-3r.
79
4(1).lloatrare'l volto bel, plen dl merpede

E durepa aver poy,
g
Non S dolor che tanto al servo noi.
5(1).Donna,,
1. This sharp Is omitted in F.

2. A Lon6 in F.; in S:dt
3. This sharp Is omitted in S.
4. In F:JL
=5*
t JJ
5. A Long in S.
6. These verses, with seven additional lines, have been published by Carduoci
(Cant., p.119).
44.
S.150V;
80
F.7v.
3(2).Ma pur tuo gentilepja

E 11 valor ml conqulse.
4(1).Pero c'amor ml mlsse

Nel cor ch'l'ml donassi
Quando m'innamorassl
A donna d'alto etato.
6
Si.
1. This signature is given only In S. The flats given with the part are those of F.
2. This nest is missing in S.
3. In F:d
4. This sharpis omitted in F.

5 In F;
JT-->_ .
6. Trucchi (11,156) a t t r i b u t e s these verseB to Francesco.
45.
S.i58r; F.tr; B.24r; R.34r; P.85v-86r.
(K
+4
ir
tit
'I
T
^
-fa. I
/.'
J3L
c)
_ .--Co
I
9L
dt
d'*.l"t"v4<Ker>
eou-ir cov\ . .
Btllata no. 45 nas also been observed by 3ukofzer m the Bodleian manuscript, C.ii. eccl.
229. f o l . 38, a fragment from the same source as the two Paduan fragments.
81
'<*' ~to piK til*"/
\L
- .
-+-
-T-i
-t -
1
<
\
ssa. -
'r
UU; #.
jj
1_^Q
t- i
J. -i
dolere
ad
T~M
'
'9
X!
^ ?*??!
v, * , .
. ,
Kanear nel vlso bello che tolto m'ay?
come
yr
-4
LJ
' 4(1).Vuo l tu, per ch'lo t'amal e tanto

T'amo o'altro ben non eento,
Tener l a v
" a mla In tal tomento.
5(1).Donna, ol t'8 falllto....

*
1. The signature of the superluB Is lacking In R. and P. In the latter the rial is
constantly Inserted throughout the part*
~
~
2. The tenor signature Is found only In B. and P. The other USS, use the flat as
Indicated In the part.
~
3. This point of division is in R. only.
4. This sharp Is found In F. and~S. only.
5. As so often happens at phrase eVidlngs, the relative values of note and rest here
vary between both parts and in each MS.
6. B. has only the first line of text for each section of the tenor.
7. This sharp is omitted in F. and B.
8. In S. and P:H"
~
~
9. This sharp Is missing in P.

10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
A Long in
These two
Including
This flat
In S. and
F.
~
notes were Semlbreves In B.
signatures, this flat Is indicated in all MSS. save S. and R.
is ômitted in R.
P::
~""
15. This accidental is found In F. only.

16. This sharp appears only In B_T
17. In S. and Pi , ,,
,, iS< f
^
18. In S. this note Is followed by another Long an octave lower.
19. The~followlng verses are not given In P.
20. This indication Is In F. and S. only.
|
(1
46.
S.U6v-147r.
/. Dan
UJJ
'
Cer
v./.._
^
ohe
1-
'__ /e,
I
I I
bet.J[
m\e.
Vila '
p/o.-rift d/c<i
i
/Ufi Vi fi.
83
ilo-rfe.
3(2).Non mie cagione diede el viso molle

Di cio pensando e l v i v e r mi displace.
4(1).Dall'amor
non si sface
Perch1io a rimlrarti spesso vegno
C'altro nonn o oonforto ne sostegno.
Ce.
47.
S.U5r.
I'd.
I A"
hi
fce-.L ra,.
C/,1 A.M/l*.
H K - .
a-
SI-
I.'
cAe ' di
Mi.
te
\A*\O
1
it
m rrjrir'f r
I
Jnov i A - n-a.
84
Ml
CIO
(Stcc^lt /^
l/t^1 MM i. t.'r
fi
tor
re
lo
m
to
^,
.1
re.
-10
da --"far
lo
II
^ t
^fz
STrug* - - - - . o
**<"'
3(2).Et non lodo soccorrere

Se da onor non fugommi.
4(1).0nd'lo ora ben purgomi
S'a dio ma'volli offenders,
C'amor m'S fatto accendere
E'l'timor mi dissanima.
1. Notice these spaces between the end of one phrase of text and the beginning
of the next. They are much more irregular than similar places in the two-part
madrigals, and here tend'to make the text appear poorly placed.
48.
S.135I*.
S2Q
la.
- - r-vera.
5.
e-
i la pn
.
.
Cht'l
' ttr
ff
fa,
\/e-r<i.
- re.
I.e.
l*r
~Tenf>
r
! CT>
1
-ra re.
4-<$ri--n,
fa
- va.
rrlff .
ti.
85
Z.
3(2).In questo vago tempo

Ogni cosa a vagheca
4(1).L'erb'e con gran frescheea
E fiori coprono prati
E gll alberi adornati
Sono in slmll manera.
1. This note was a Semlbreve in the US.
This is the shortest of the entire works of Francesco.Notice the very
unusual ending in each section, two Semibrevea and a rest instead of the usual
Long. The relative size is caused, not by a change in the verse form, but rather
by a reduction in the use of mellsma in the music.
49.
S.148v.
/.
E L-rftT
,
n\ A. I Serr'4
--H
-f
=S
Q22:
Pif*&
re
'fbr--- -I
$&
^
Me Dn dwei'o - 'a
"far
m a d,'
1.
bei
er-mel ~ I . ' . .
fit/
W-
Suo
^
5Ut
VIS
3(2).Quanto soave, altera, u-nile,

D'ogni virtu per suo natura scorta
4(1).Et per mle grave sorta
Tu vuol c h ' i ' l e ala servo, algnor mio,
C'appena tu, non ch'io,
Farle potresti degnamente honore.
5(1)Facto m'a s e r v ' a m o r e . . . .
87
50.
S.148r.
J.L
fir
"25
i
,-K
vt
ic so
le
--
Son
z=S
.!- Al we
Sol-
/lC5_ti "VlVfu.
3(2).per te di e nocte moro

Et raiaentarti mai mie cor non tace,
4(1).I'a ss'lo nonn'o tuo pace
Staranno lagrlmosi gli ochl mlel5(1).FJor.
1. Notice this imitation of the tenor.
2.. Scribal error for '!'.
J3;.147v; F.IOr; P.86v.
I.
FtrTu.-
ML |
J Fort** -r\i.
VI
n..
Son
, tonTra. v\c
I
r---
'lie
t h e Aonsi
ton
89
dan -- /?A ill
vi
SOr\
PCI*-
iuii|O
4(1).Con fortuna amor sempre si tene

In un volere al mio dolore Intera.
Ma pur non temo c'ancor nonn'e sera.
5d).Fortuna ria....
6(2).Piu ch'altro
d'altra, quest1amor m'accende
II cor e I1alma mla,
Dl star suggetto a llei:
7(2).Non vera fe, ne mlo dolor l'arrende.
Amor vuol che clo sia
Per forca dl coatej,
8(1).Ch'a volto contra me '1 cielo e li dej.
Dl vlta'l mle pensier se ne dispera
Ma pur non temo ch'ancor non B sera.
9(1).Fortuna ria.....
In
IT
2 . In
4.
5.
6.
7
8.
This sharp Is found In F. only.

A Long in F.
This sharp is omitted in P.
Here the sharp appears only in P.
This sharp is omitted In S.
9. In F : J _ _ _ _
5^
10. In P:
11. In P:.
12. There is the usual variance of note value in this measure.
13. In F::
14. In S:.
15. In P. this stanza Is placed beneath the superius part.
16. The~followlng stanzas appear only In F.
A unique feature of this work is that the last line of each stanza
which is sung to the music of the first section Is identical. The verses have
been published by Trucchl (II, 166).
90
52.
.g.160r.
/. Sj
da.-mo-I re
Vie
f u--
spcr.L an
tfi
tf
1
i I
1.
Ve&~
'
ti,
- j. ^<>
4-
Che
I A'
Tfa-.-di
f irf rir flf f

re
VMI
vc tf
<?\o
TVa
ij.jj.jij j
1-*"
i.
J<
TV.
3. S>
'
To
fiie
'
f Iff
.
-hi.
91
Iv
4(1).Et con gran fe dispuoal

Al suo servlglo tutta la mie vita,
D'ogn'altra amore essendoml partita.
1. Due to their Irregular number, the Breves must be used as units In this composltlon.
2. One wonders why this accidental was considered necessary since there Is no
signature. It Is not before a note which might be lowered by muslca flcta, and
even If the part were transposed It would still be unnecessary.
53.
F.46r.
TcnairlGi*.
ebbi
92
3(2).Anno avuto poder di far suggetto

A voi'l mlo cor ch'esser'llber'solea,
4(1).Si che la mente mia
Non puS aperar salute,
Se da vol concedute
Non son a me movendovj a pietade.
6(2).Mai non permlse forca dl fortuna

Ne amor, poi ch'i'ebi lngengno e vita
7(2).Che di me aignoria avease alchuna
Dall'altre donne aasal fosse pulita.
8(1).Salvo che voi, gradita
Sopt'ogn'altra, m'avete
D'amor preso concrete
Ma non usate pero crudeltade.
9(D.GJa.
1. An extra 'GJa1 is inserted here, inconsistent with the form.
Notice the long ligatures in the Instrumental tenor part to this composition.
93
54.
S.169r; F.1v; B.59v; R.48v; P.68v-$9r.
(3)
-fatH
ta..
.130* i d hue
cor
' sen _
5. CKe
^ _ . . . _ . .
.^._-
ti,
1. to \s - -
. . SO,' %(\ wue
fe
>'
r^^îîi^,;,
5*'
xa.
s i,^j^^j
5 ,'W-
I
3
iig
<1
- A;- --!
r?
ri.
4(1).I'temo, vaga donna, o'a quell'ora

Che fi'el tuo partimento
Non sle greve'l torraento
A ffar partir da mme l'alma smarrlta.
5(1).(GJa per
1 7
6(2).DeM dlscreto slgnore,

Ussa^nel servitore
PI eta, alguna a scampo dl sua vita.
7(2).E pero 11 tuo valore deponga,
Al mlo dolore
Se puo rlparo de la tua partita,
8(1).Se pur da morte si dlfende vita,
Fia me'pena saputa
Seray crudel tenuta
Dove non se'sol per queata partita.
1. This sharp Is given only In R.

2. In S::
3. In F. and B:
4. In Rs
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
These sharps are "gtven" In F. and B. only.

This sharp is given In S. and R. only.
Here the sharp Is omitted in S. and R.
At this point the sharp appears only"~ln B. and P.
In R:
10. S. has the sharp here; F. and B. place It after the next note; P. and R. omit
it entirely.
11. In Si
-r- - jr
-7 - r f
J.jJ j ^ JJJ.
The same in B.and

14. In S:
TO 1 i i i i i
15.
16.
17.
but
i i 1 ', -
This sharp^ls omitted In* R~. and p p

The sharp here is omitted in B. and S.
The usual indication of a repetitlon~of the first stanza Is not given here
may safely be assumed. The remaining stanzas appear only In R.
55.
>-wc
95
S.160V.
sel- -i/
-i/M .
- . o.a.ire.
bel/e.
' 3.1"
.
ii
Gz
-
/,ec.
5t=S=t
_ ..
- c-g-.
Que.s-ti
<<i
ao
\X
(Vcrfo?)
=Gs)
-
re.
S. 2fe
Mi).Suo trepa bionda, dorato colore,

C'amor conseco, non credo, che'll'aggla.
1. A Long re st In the MS.

2. Notice the use of dissonance at the beginning of the section.
3. Note that the last six measures are Identical with those of the first section.
96
S.160r.
tu
7.
ol'
-I
>n - n
HAIC
nx
'v( 1) .Et non pensando al poter degli dei

Ml stava pargoletto
Pol cercandoml el petto
Lo stral dorato dentro vl trovay.
1. A Breve rest In the MS.
97
P.68v-69r.
-._ _
re,
"NOT* SC - -i --
- ^ SA. - . "ti
M S
r
4(1).0nde piangendo l'anima a'atrlsta
E mor BI dl dolore
Che gll ochi con amor non puo vedere.
O
5(1).611 ochl che In prlma....
98
"ten.
6(2).Cosi plen dl tormento'l cor ml vegglo

Ne so ne penso che cuor la si mova
7(2).Dlmml slngnlor perche dl mal en pegglo
Costel ml gulda non con glusta prova
8{1).Ch'a gientll cor de parere cosa nova
Usando tel errore verso dl chl si muore
Pe' suo valore.
9(1).Gil oohl che in prlma.
t. F. has no signature for the euperlus part. In both F. and P. the "tenor
has no signature but has a flat before the only note a?fectedT
2. In "' f
ry 4
3. In S:.
A.
5.
6.
7.
This appears In P. only.

This Is inserted"~in P. to cancel the accidental noted above.
A Breve ligature In >.
In P:: *
*=
8. This stanza Is Indicated only In S. The following stanzas occur In F. only.
Trucchl (11,157) accredits this poem to Francesco.
58.
S.165v; F
,.f -
; P.1i3v-1Ur.
gfi
J (, in VCfi
i
i=?
i
^
oiw cle. ' mil VH&} | in twa
99
'
.0.
,,
.re
;.
~ ., . _ .
i . re.
Q~
4(1).Pero rlngratlo teênlgno sire,

Che ml ramenta ancora
Del ben ch'i/ebbl allora
Per tuo virtu et per altrul pletate
5(1).I'fu tuo serv 1 , amore,....
6(2).Paseato e'l flore e'l tempo puerile,
Immaglnay porre fin al mlo amare,
7(2).Dlsposto plu nell'anlmo virile
Delia gloria mondana um po'cerchare.
1 0 ( 2 ) . P O che tua slngnoria pur questo vole

Pill che glamal contento vlve'l core.
11(2).Ma un slnistro solo forte ml dole
Che1' ndengno ml reputo a tanto honore
;2(1).Ka sse degno mi fay, tl prlego, amore
Che qui fermo mi tenga tanto che'l mlo'fin venga
In questo atato dl felicitate.
13(1).I'fu....
14(2).Maravlglloml assay del gram podire

Ch'al dato a lley, cosl gentile e bella,
8(1).In clo fu vano 11 mlo lmaglnare
Per una vaga luce da tte pur ml rlduce
15(2).Che m'a mutato con dolcle placere
Tant'e'l valore della sua gran blltate.
Della mia lingua in tedescha favella.
16(1).La qual promessa in me mal non si svella
Da me par alcun tempo, fe'cio" eaper a tempo
Non spero may sentire aversltate.
17(1).I'fu....
1. The next four measures of this part are omitted In P.

2. In F::
3 . Note this rare use of the Third as the Initial Interval.

4. In F. and P;
.^'"V.
5. This indication Is omitted In F. and P. The following stanzas are given only
in F.
~
59.
S.141v;F.46v-47r.
c-J
WS.
71
Suo bel ol- So
ft
_^
A .
CIT
J IJ
.. . .
ype
5 ^
^=
JJJ,I
JJiTO
jt-
-tt
100
1 . . - --
. . J.
I
I
mi ore -
-de
3(2). Ma eempre amando queata In pura fede

Servendo che cci.5'1 vede
Merlto alcuno ancor trovar dovrel.
4(1).Ben temo a tanto aosplrar per lei
Forfa non n'abbla lntera
Che norte prla m'anclda, In che ella spera.
5(1).II suo bel viso....
1. S. begins the first line with an -clef instead of the -clef used in the other
MSST The mistake is not continued in~the second line.
2 . The tenor is given without text in F. Consequently some of the notes which are
repeated in ordtr tc accommodate the text as given in S. are sustained in the
former MS. This evidence definitely Indicates that the text in F. could not have
been fitted in by a alnger - in the manner in which stanzas three and four were
fitted to the music by the singer of the superlus part - and that it was consequently either played directly by an instrument or else sung on a single vowel,
which after all is an instrumental style.
3. In F::*
4. In Ft:
5. An f in S.
6. Thli accidental is found in F. only.
7. The following stanzas are found in S. only.
101
P.41v-42r.
RSV
t- 5 < n -
f ;r[frrrjr
-I -
A v\orf
*<TT
rf r ;f
+ e *i
sc I Tua.
102
3(2).Ch'e imme d'ongni bllta vera cholonna

Et di virtu sopr'ongn'altra pregiata.
4(1).Sentir per me quel ch'io per lei non fai
Terra ml sempre'n guai e in pavento.
5(1).I'non ar
61.
S.169v; R.35v-36r.
103
4(1).Ma quella crudelta che In te dlmora

Non lsta ben In si gentll flgura.
V. This point of division la In S. only.

2. This point If found only In R.
3. An f In R.
A. In R 4
5. S. uses white notation for the triplets in this composition. R. secures the
same rhythm by use of via artls and special forms of notes discussed In chapter
four.
6. In R:
7. In R:
8. This dharp appears only in S. "*"
9. There is the usual discrepancy in size between this note and rest.
104
62.
S.i36r.
?fl)grrrrrpiTrrr
1
sygfj
cto
0-7T2
la.$sJ(
s&m
3t
.,. . .
-^=
^
- -
/*)
J(
o fp prfrf!f ^ ff
Jo^
SSo
H
'
^1 ^
6 "1
1 _IS. _*_.
cW
-r
s
r
pr -
= F
1
1
1
1 |^.
-t-
i
..5a
-h,
-3t
a
^ tf f f C,gj
-4
0 .\o^'iti
--I-5*-
16
^
J.I
sn
iff
fi
VP Tf
1
1
-r
pi
h ^
'
105
^-1
7T
TCr~
11
-1
rf1
1
-1
T.
^ T -
-j
r-
-t-
3(2).0 giovineca In cui placer si stende,

Nessun grave pensier In te s'annldia.
4(1).Tutt'al 11 dlletto e vechieca la'nvldia,
Ma poco dura 11 tuo glocondo stato.
5(1).I'piango
1. This sharp was placed directly beside the flat which appeared In the part
several notes before it was needed. This practice of indicating changes in advance
suggests that normally an accidental influences the entire phrase before which
It Is placed, rather than Just a single note. Thus in the present instance, were
it not for the sharp given with the flat the latter would have continued in force
for two measures.
2. A Breve rest In the KS.
3. This represents the lowest note reached in any of Francesco's works. Gf.no.75.
63.
S.i36v.
-- ce..
106
&g^
i. u r~>do-l
' I' "
i n - -ti e
s7
-^h
ncU
si
-J
_,
- - l
TV
"
1**
?s
11
75
4(1).Et sola di se steseo s1lnnamora

Ne 1 speech! vaghegiando
Pur mirando I 1 ombra sua fallace.
1. A Breve in the MS.

64.
S.J26v-t27r; F.6r.
107
3(2).Che com pura neve al sol mi sface

Et non ei cura per ch'io mi scolori.
4(1).Et so gli affettl del mie mal giori
Che lie parole e bello vede amore.
5(1).(La bonda treppa
6(2).Dunque amor che sal lo stato mio

Che mi fa nel foco esser beato
7(2).De'I Fa che nel bel viso il qual io
Con Voci aasa'platose t'o chlamato
8(1).Ore per me vi tl vegg'a a guisto grato
Acclo che me non vengnia In dolore.
1. InF:
2. This sharp is omitted In F.
3. An a in F.
+ m g
"~
5. This stanza, necessary for the form, is not indicated in either MS.; the
following stanzas are in F only.
108
65.
F.l3r.
I
T S(i
-o
o-
. d;
3z
Viso
*.A| c*--rrL_
4=
Ct
. _ . . . . !
XX?
-K,o
o i l
' w n 0S*o, S p f i - 21M
109
do'l
Si- - f
^m
---I
H
Ben
sa?
Ser
j=g
ser
Coo
3(2).Saral sempre per me dl pieta gnuda

Come ancora sempre clascun vede,
4(1).Ma ll'amor che ml tien, questo non vede.
Che in tale errore ti tengha
Per men male ml spengha
Dalle tuo fiamme el cor per servir mlo.
5(1).L'alma.
T. In S:
2. In F:
4. A In S.
"
5- In Ft
6. In F:
110
66.
s. UOv; P.1O7r.
1^&-
-+"
1J | d
-cL* i ^
# ^
1. o a
i/Mi.
J
/.
o^
la.
>,
"^
^ ,J 1 J i |
i^J
I
I o
^ o
"^
c/'ej
ma. -
tot,
111
--,"'
c,-fei ..
4(1).Et tal sotto^color di bene a

s
Parla che plu tacer sarie felice.
1. White notation Is used for all triplets in this work.

2. In P:
3. This point of division appears only in P.

4. This sharp i s found only in S.
5 In P:
i
-^1
6. Cf. the ending of the same stanza ,in no. 41. In the present case an immediate
conclusion of the vocal part, followed by an instrumental postlude, i s possible.
67.
S.155V;
-h\.
e7
e'/
Joke. Ul d'i --\ si - -
0 9 ~?~ O
do Ice Ul J{
P.4r.
'
Si' -
- - _
| m. -
fffffl
(
112
<i-
frr
Ji.
i
4{1).Veggendo
ch'a mmle prieghi non dlecende
L1angelica figura e'l vleo plo.
5(1).L'antlca
I. In
2. A c In F.
3. The relative sizes of note and rest vary.
113
68.
S.151V.
114
-ft
4(1).Dl r l t o r n a r e a l i e ! si mmi p a r t i
Che'l corpo sanpa'l cor s t a r no p"S.
5(1).L'aspecto
115
69.
S.i55r.
/. L'o _
- - _
\
-*-
1~^~|
-%
TX TUo
eles,.
btl-.'tx
'i
ii
k-'
o*i*
-4ô
C r t - oo \ biif DA> Tel _
| Ixu, trwoel,
I "
5i=
oe--
EE
u.^ irMdel^
,, J.J.
A. _ ,
d\x sse
- wvr
116
I-a
o o . . nor fx'ui In dvlf- - il
...
'- CC
Ce.
De
De
_.. -t.
3(2).A quel dlsio c'a morte mi conduce

Seguendo tu tuo crudel nome a ttorto
4(1).M& priraa sofferro mi vegha morto,
E indarno poy ml chyaml,
Che per tuo crudelta volghl al mlo core.
1.
2.
3.
4.
A Breve In the MS.

A Semlbreve In the MS.
This rest is preceded by a superfluous Semibreve rest.
Notice this dissonant Third, used as a phrase-ending.
117
70.
S.UIr; P.66v-67r; P.i09v-110r.
r ir m
m.'
T
::
OwA '
()
-ft
J_
J
1
118
del u/\l Vuil ^vn- -f-,,,.
3(2).Alcuna volta m i fa rallegrare

Mostrando lleto a mme suo viso adorno
E pol pare smarrita
4(1).Dunque perd'io l'anlma sbigottlta.
Dolce morte tl prendl
Si ch'a u n otta e non a atento pera.
5(1).Ma 1 non s'andra
12
21. This point of division appears only in P.
r rr
3. In P:
4. This point appears in F. only.

5. S. has the signature octonarla here. From the style of the notation, the change
should com.e as Indicated, three measures earlier,
7! wSlf (Qefch.d.Mens.not.. Ill, 124) reverts to the original metre at this point
for four measures.
8. In S:
Rlemann (Gesch.d.Muslk, 11,1, 87ff.)
believes that this is a canon in augmented
porportlon, indicated by what he considers
). In F:4
to be the meaning of the text, and gives the
music transcribed accordingly. We cannot
agree with him.
10. In
J' .4.J4 4+
11. This sharp is massing in F.

12. This stanza is not indicated
In P.
There is a reproduction of the original

notation in Wolf, op.clt.. II, 91.
119
71.
; F.56r; P.11Av-1i5r.
s
1 Mel
I d JJJ.3
i^
I-
. I I
^J
ba
F^=T=
i a.n5^f- piV
O-M e
g:
5J
O
"
'
=t
- - ",
^
120
- .
p . .
p4
-._
- 1
?;
p~~
I
^
11
1
'" C a
--=
'i -Jj! H
__ 1
p ff
1
__J_
J\-
J 1 u
3(2).Et sempre epandero lagrlme fora

Fin ch'i'gli rivedr3 lleti tornatl
4(1).Et son d'ognl bllta si adornatl
Che chi gl^ guata e non prende amore
Quel si puo dir che ssia sanca valore.
5(1).Nella partita....
1. An f in F.
2. In Both F. and P. this note Is a c. Notice that this measure, as given in 5.,
is repeated by the~superlus.
~
4. Here the resolution of the dissonant Third, with which the section begins, is
delayed longer than is customary.
6. This stanza is not indicated in P.
72.
S.169r; B.28v.
121
ij J
122
iii'ui
l^p
3(2).Che fanno In terra un nuovo paradlso

Con lo splendor d'un clel dl nove stelle.
4(1).Amorxcom'e plu bella delle belle
Ml da cotanta donna per slgnore.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
A Long In B.
A Semibreve In B.
This accldental~appears only In S.
S. has a superfluous Breve rest here.
This point of division appears only In B.
B. has a superfluous Semibreve rest here.
73.
S.134v.
m-
I. Ncl
I. tVel . -
ICE
5 b< tr -
- * &**
--<}
123
I (A
3(1)*Et amor che mmi duca eterno fia

5
4(1).Nella tua
etcr.
5(2).Dunque per tua et non per mla virtute
Spera d'allor in me qual che salute
6(1).Che 11'alma questo piange et sol disia
7(1).Nella tuo luce
'
t. There is a Semibreve or its equivalent lacking at this point. We venture to

suggest the above possibility.
2. This was a Breve in the MS.
3. There is an extra Semibreve rest here.
4. Notice that this ballata is Irregular in that each group of lines contains
but one stanza for the second section. Thus the musical form is A B A A B A
A
while the poetical form is A B U
A D E
A.
5. This is a direction only, the abbreviation of et cetera.
74.
S.I59r.
$i*m
*>voVo C 1 4 --- * * *
124
vie -S*<- - -tw
f) j - j j j ^ l
EdElEEira
+
r,0
d'iirni-fe
le".
^C
I Cke
...U
] w
' ^ B
^
+r
- Ai
JL
G>
^
-I
fc-
lM.b. ~ 5 < o < "
CM
- -
^St
- - - T,
/O
*:
wmn
-3-
c^c
ti
^r~r^^
tr^
mM
5 r - - V*.
3(2).Seguisee da quel di ch'i'le mi diedy

Con la ment'e col core.
4(i).Ne
Ne
Ma
Et
fede ne pieta ne caldo amore

merce mai troval
ssolamente guay
lei crudele, lngrata et lnportuna.
5(i).Nessum provb
125
it
Ser-.-l-'vto
st
'..
75.
S.136V; P.2v; P.4v-5r.
126
3(2).Che ben vedresti Inn esso stare Amore

Et la tuo vista bella et amorosa
4(1).A ohlu eervlr non e l'alraa angoaclosa
Che tte servendo pur servlr dyela.
5(1).Non creder, donna
Tempus lmperfectum; the sign Is missing In F.

TempuB perfectum; again missing In F. In P. these come five measures later.
In S:.
r r r rr
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
This point appears only In P.

This point is missing in P."
F. omits this note.
This point is found only in F.
In S:
_
9. Again in this work we have the lowest register used in Francesco's music.
Cf. no. 62.
10. This stanza is not indicated In P. The text to this work is by Franco Sacchettl.
It has been published by Carducci (Cant., p.239). who gives stanza five in full,
Identical with stanza one. In his Rime dl Clno...e d'altrl..., Carducci prints
two additional groups of stanzas for this balJata.
127
i a.
h-vt;
-O-
ne.
,;
dh-tte
fe-r?
^.
- -,-.t.
f.'
==
3:
T-
' ifc.
Sen+^ da.
3
1.
-I
I
dla.
128
3(2).Usando pura fe ml tien nascoso

El tuo veposo vl3o e'l dolpe anore
6. In F:
4(1).De tuoi pretlosl ochl onde'l ale core

Per gran doglia si sface.
0 me! rendirni pace
Del dlslo, donna, ch'lo da tte sentia.
14
5(1).Non per falllr
7. In F:.
W&
8. In F:.
9. In Fti.
6(2).Pensando che san;a mla copla sento
Plant!, sosplr, lamentl et gran lancore,
10. In
7(2).Credo ch'ara piata del mlo tomento

Che ma'non merlta pena'l servire
11. In
8(1).0l me!, donna et slgnore, farami sent!re
Quella gioia e dlletto
C'avea dal tuo aspetto
Qual mi fu tolto per falsa reaia.
12. In .
9(1).Non per fallir
13. In F:-
1. In F:-
14. This stanza is lndicate.1 only

in S. The following stanzas are
found only in F.
Pi
2. These are Longs in F.

3. In F. this flat is not introduced until the
following measure. Once used, it is continued
in the signature throughout the conposltion.
4. Thl3 flat is subsequently continued in the
signature of each V.S.
5. In S; iV <?
129
=r+
77.
S.
r ) G>
do
/. O
|_lerv
I
Ztz
A.
e-_ A;
cK'
i. 0 _ .
I
I
1; I
bi"&.n - - o e . . _
si
Sol
O
' u.
t:c.
<Jkf
"Cr
c-U.'Jj.io^gjJ J
pry
^ JJJJJJJJ
f *v
-4c.
U.
4( 1) .Gran virtu ^ refrenar volontate

Per honestate
Che seguir donna e sofferlr tormento.
130
1. A Semlbreve l i g a t u r e In the US.
78.
V*1
f!f
c \
(. Cxi--
J- rxer
vo
S.136r.
j pii
J ' i - --,-tr
Co - - -_
^:
"Tenors
//
sWa.
2.
r**
131
-t-t
-*-<*... - - - A. .
j J JJ |o J J J
E
i^=F
Lni
3(2).?erche nessuna vaga quanta lei

Hal nacque al mondo tanto oltra misura
4(1).Et piu c'altra bella in suo flgura.
Risplende si die concede chiarepa
A chi chom a llei tra gentilepa.
5(1).0gnor Tni trovo. ..."..
1. One of the rare places where a ledger line is used. This could easily be
avoided by placing the clef in a different position as the range is still small.
2. This interval would be most awlcward if performed otherwise than with an instrument.
3. The following intervals are so uncommon that we venture to suggest that the
copyist has again erred, and that this phrase be raised a Third and the following
one lovfered a Third to read as follows:
79.
S.141r; F.7v-8r; P.1o8v.
132
O
- e'.o e t c
I "
2k.
. ek
T'
me
s 11
h.rt CreL c U - ^ *
if.
5(2).Quando gll occhi miral

C'anno traffltto el cor peneoao et lasso
4(1).Che sol partlrs'un passo
Lo spirlto mie d'amore
Ne forca a n% valore
Ua sospirando lei sempre disio.
10
5(1).0r'e ttal
1. In P:
m
2. In P:
9 m
3. This sharp appears in P. only.
4. The point of division occurs here only in S.
5* I n F:
6. In P:
-f2-2
f f^ | r*
p
The same measure in P:
m *
=*=*
8. A d In P.
9. 'PercheT in F. and P.
10. This stanza is indicated only in F.
133
* 0-
v --a,.
80.
S.141v; P.1O3r.
Co.
T T
s)\X
Co-
ff;
| -^~
"i i I
Pin., nn' Piv
~ _ - . - . re
fl
cs>
a.
Je(
\es
re.
I
r
1
J
^!
r
3(2).Et pol mi lasci et di me non ti cale

No" a costei per oui non trovo loco
4(1).O lass',a me quant'e penoso el givoco
Che sotto speme affllgl ogni amatore.
4
5(1).(0yme! el core....)
6(2).Per piu tormento m'a facto fedele
Dl coal alta et nobll flgura
7(2).Che vede la mle pena e\ crudele
Et non m'aiuta ne dl me non cura.
8(1)Fanclulla, ome!, com'e penosa et dura
La fiamma che dl te m'lncende el core.
1. The signature of the superlua occurs only In P. S.secures the same tonality
by the use of accidentals.
2. This sharp appears only In P.
\\ Thifstanza, essential for the form, 1 B not indicated in either US. The remaining stanzas are found only in P.
135
81.
; F.5v; B.7r.
ILL
^ ^
ffit$) > J , I J^ J ; .o-~
/
ftr
alUote - c v I d e l
d
\-O
ji.r-lar
l'i--(--mo
$3
^gt=j
HP
P=R
**i** * # T
. . . -
_ _
"
* \ -!
re
S'a...
rt
Uorc*
4 '' f ' J r * p >
J J,lj
I O
i 3
- - ecc -SC
I g
nK
Si
IS
sen - - \
'2.
i
cce-st
J J
a
F
-6
-/-
-i
j m i
-ft
avs.
^^
I
1,'
!
latent1
"
-fc
JA&.-T
3 Ci-erf-'
le+i"
r^P1
,^tr^
e"t~W V-
-i
oM
-ck
VI
<
iiB.
!<. ^ j , . .
S.---^M.r.
-gr ^
c^pijCt
^~ -]
St
sc
?=C
'
1H'i
"
c.\a.
ore
:n
Jd~*
ef.'
- re-
1 - |P-^
H-J
1 ij
. - Ac
nn
-1
Che.
ft c)>,'.--
^
i
J^ /a-
j]
4(1).sl che clascuna nel parlar sle presta.

S'a questo servo % stato t o l t o ' l core
Dleglisi con gran festa
Quel di colel ch'egli ana a tanto onore.
5(1).Per allegreca del parlar d'amore...''
136
1. This accidental appears only in B.
2 . A Long in F.
3 - I n T-.f
.
~
.
'
4. In F'.
5. This sharp appears only in _.
6. This sharp is omitted In S.
7. Although.the use of an upbeat is extrenely rare in the fourteenth century, it
is Justified at this point by the rhythmic progressions in the remainder of the
composition. Cf. also the line Just above this.
8. This sharp is given here in B. only. In S. it occurs three notes later.
9* I n S;
g
10. In B. the tenor is given without text.
11. This stanza is not Indicated in B.
82.
F.42v-43r.
cle e,)
-&
137
3(2).Corre la nostra vita e maj non cessa

In fin che giungne all'ultimo confine.
4(1).Chi piu combatte contra a tai m i n e
Piu tost'e vlnto et piu s'apreesa
morte.
63.
S.165r.
138
J| | .
--Ae.
a. s?
/.
139
4( 1) .Che^6 ent H e Pa esser platosa auole

Pero el cor non^crede
Che non soccorra., BI langulr ml vede.
5(1).Per la belleca
1. Note the relationship of the text In the tenor to that of the superlua. Most
of the time It 1 B rhythmically In canon although not melodlcally.
84.
S.166V; F.3r; P.88v-89r.
ZEE*
ra..
Se--
DT
O \jLi
d
140
- \e
3(2).Questa che morte* ml torra da llel

Non pleta d'altra donna ne placere.
4(1).Ha quanto seguo suo crudel volere
Et a costei plu darml
Tanto a disfarmi piu la trovo fera.
5(1).Per servar umllta
1. This sharp is in F. only.

2. This accidental is omitted In F.
3 This accidental appears only In S.
4. A Long In S.
5. This flat is omitted In S., in keeping with the accidental appearing in the
next measure.
"~
6. This flat appears only in P. It Is presumably Inserted to cancel the natural
three measures earlier which is understood by mualca flcta and actually written
there by S.
7. This stanza Is not indicated in P.
85.
S.i66v.
I. fhr
. '
Kn
,. Per
SV-
un
iJiNJ.lJ4.Ji
..to.
tu
-+tr
I ct.
/.'
el
sk
-4^^
te--li
| fir
I
I
iSi
e
31
f eke
I .
*
o-
d:
Per
J iJJJ
* =
\ .1.
^
Se - -
e.jj A, _ . jo - n e
142
j J i J J j JJ
3(2).Ond'l'non posso, o vera virtuosa,

Veder quant1lo vorrei la tuo biltate
A(1).Ch'e mle tesoro e mle felicitate;
Quest'e la caglon del mle tormento.
5(1).Per un amante rlo....
1. This point l a lacking In the MS.

2 . This r e s t i s omitted In the US.
3 . A Semibreve in the MS.
86.
B.32v.
a. I
ret
Jonyj
" - - do
J
1
- on/a.
*L
o-
--
- - -
=_
A,
-C/ielh
- e-'
-e-
--
ie.
nun
cU
of'a.
0/c.
,6) I
A
fi
T-g- I
EE
x-Gl.-
!>*-- Cent-.'
3(2).Che spesso sol per gli ochl so'selvagia

Ml fano sparger gran plantl e sospir molti
4(1).Che dentro nella raente son raccolti
Per ch'io non vegio anchora
5
Quell'ora ohe slate pla.
5(1)(PJu bella... )
6(2).llerce, al lasso! I1sol merce dlmando

Et ben servando degna paccle aspetto
7(2) .Istrlngavy a ml platate, olme1! mlrando
Gil gran afannl del fedel sugetto
8(1).E cho'benignio e gratloso aspetto
D'alqun beatto slgnlor
Fatte-nl degnlo con ne'cor dlala.
1. This Is one of the group of compositions definitely labelled ballate in B.

As evidenced by the inany points of division, there is considerable use of via
artls.
2. This progression Is mos* unusual.
3. This sharp was placed before the preceding a. Cf. measure four above.
4. A Semlbreve in the MS.
~*
5. Tlii3 word was illegible in the US.
6. This stanza, necessary for the form, was not Indicated in the US.
7. Scribal error for 'con 1 .
144
87.
S.168r; F.
m
/^\
C.V-
m"
TT-
3?H
/. Po
j *e>
of,
be I ~ -
=3=F
-ULJ
ei-
- - oli'
rri
->
o- C.A. . . . .
Mt
, V_
^JU'i
| ^r1-i-- ~
p v#j
'-^~
VO -
h/5
c^
be/
-h9&n
i j "J
I pi'il,
J.'
^n
_/3
er
Ja,
t*=t
o>t
a-
Q)
2
Po St. *i
f at - -- H5
-^
lt*e . .
_ de.
3(2).Et che eommo dolore mle vlt'aesale

Che BBS abandonat'esser el vede
4(1).Ma se leclto m'e chieder merpede,
Humlle quant'lo degglo,
V'a llel, ballata, dl ch'l'glele chegglo.
5(1).Po c'amor ne.
1. In S. there is not room for the text in the tenor part so only the beginning
of each phrase Is given in the 1!S. as indicated. In F. the complete text appears.
2. In F:- "
3. In P::
in F,
5. A Breve in the MSS.
6. The following stanzas appear only in F.
88.
S.142v; F.5r; B.37r; R.9v-1Or.
- - So.
- - Jo.
1. In S:3
2. In R::
3. There is a point of division here in R. Throughout this composition R. frequently uses the point in such a way as to indicate a division of the metre Into
2/2 time. We have not shown these points In the above transcription.
4. This sharp appears only in S.
5. In S;^
, The sane in F:^
.
,
6. In B:
m+-Jr-d^
7 This rest Is omitted in B.

8. R. has a bar-line in place of these rests. The other 1ISS. vary slightly as to
the size of the rest.
9. In R. this bar is no different from those between phrases.
10. The appearance In R. of stanza four as given here has helped immeasurably In
ascertaining the true ballata form. In all the other MSS. It appears at the end
as usual, and Is followed by the restatement of the beginning of stanza one.
11. In S. this stanza Is given under the superius part.
12. In F. and B : ^ ;
r
15. This point appears in B. and R.

14. In
f>.167r; F.Urj P.7v-8r.
it
TenPo ivi -tar\
n2L. tfif'l
di
(Pi)
ne,
, Po.
4(1).Dunque da poi che sol per te sosplro,

Donna, che'l vedi et say
Esser men1dura pur convlensl omay.
18
5(1).S'andra
1. In Si
rf1' ;
1a. In S:
2. P. has a point here which cannot be accounted for.
3. This sharp appears in F. only.
4. Long r e s t s in F.
5. In S. t h i s measure has a Semlbreve extra;jfc+
6. This measure Is emitted in P.
7. Only a Breve in S f
8. In S:a"
-
In
i.i
10. This flat must have been observed in each MS. although it is actually indicated in P. only.
,
It. In P;J,
.rp,
tThe same in SJJ
12. In
JThe sane in
13. In P::
14. This sharp appears here in P. only. In the other MSS. it follows the next
note.
15. This flat is missing in S.
16. In S: "
17. In S>;
18. This stanza is not Indicate
150
90.
S.167v.
SfH
. o
J<
m
> .1
djJdJjd.
..J
J J J U J
Z.
.-
Ui
Eg
Pfrfrlff
i
-1 VI
-r
-~A
*!
i
i
M p M r r'i =
-J' J ver
'e "tor- -
^ îe^,^ 1
/nr, +- sai inen juttf?
I" - - -
o sof-- fer
151
m
l
re
I
d.'
- . ~__ J_.+..
PIT-!
v/.V
3(2).Ua che a mme, perc'al mle eervlr merto,

Si piega a darml suo giusto volere
Se'l mlo dlstino in cio puo di te piu,
4(1).Se la tua forca per tenpo non more,
Vinci t signore, di mie fortuna i venti.
Si che buon porto i mle disiy contenty.
5(1).Se la nlmlca.
1. There is a point of syncopation here in the MS.

2. This point of augmentation is missing in the MS.
152
, Jr=
ohe Te,onna4 ej mie
5dMi if Sli
153
o .n
'
'
-
___
4(1).Se offendo tua honestate

Seguendote, la tuo blltk ne colpa,
Et dl te e* la colpa
Che tolto gll al dl llberta la chlave.
5(1).Se lla vista soave...
1. The copyist failed to put the flags on this triplet In the MS.
So.
92.
F.20r.
me
r,"_ |_
,-JU
*&&
J
- ne.
r
frr
re.
155
J JJ-i
JJ-iJiJ
1
)\J
n
. ne,
3(2).Per servar onesta soffert'o tanto

Pena ch'esser dovrel dl pacle dengno
Et non e la colpa, l'altruy dlfetto.
4(1).Deh! raerpe^mova collel'n c'or'aspetto
Vpsta bilta serena
In atto dl pleta del mle martlre.
5(1).Se merpe,
156
93.
S.i7or; F.12v; B.28r; P.9iv-92r-
_ - - fe
::
- 4
157
3(2).Ne questo fare alcun debb'esser g

Pensando'l fin c'aBpetta di vedere,
4(1).Se non s'aspettl ancor molto dolere
Quando'l paseato non potra tornare.
5(1).Se pronto non aara l'uom....
1. This composition was actually written in 4/2 metre, but it employs so many
triplets of various sizes, indicated In the KSS. by white notes, that we have
changed it to the above metre for the sake of clarity. Rhythmically this is the
most intricate of any of Francesco's music. It has been transcribed by Coussemaker and published in Capelll, Poesie mualcale. and Rlemann, Belsplelen.
3. In F. and >. this note is a c.
4. This flat appears in B. only.
5 3. has an extra Semibreve rest here.
6. Tn Bid
...!
-
' '
7. In
8. A Breve in B9. This flat appears In P. only.
10. This stanza is given in S. and F. only.
158
94.
S.i70v; F.6v; R.28v; P.67v-68r.
o
"
JL
.S.c
jr.
7>itlok--<Jet
GD
to e>' Z)
_ _
ec
rr.
yo
_
_ .
See _
rvi
- - ~*o
r
i n
--vwo _ - - . -
la.
/3\ rsQ)
ss
&
'
ltd
#
- - Mfc.
S. / * - , .
SL
J - JJ
fen,
'
&
C^V mv\
' " ^ "
s .^ T i
' l
-^
~tfct -
159
3(2).Sie la costanfa mie, le fe, le prove,

Le Ia5rim'e sosplr ch'i'sparsi may
4(1).Sie benedetta tu che lieta stay
Del mlo greve dolore
Tanto se'bella e dl virtute honore.
12
5(1).Sie maladetta....
1. This point Is in R. only.

2. In S:;"
3- In P::
&
4. In F:2E:
5. In S::
6. In F::
7. In F::
8. In R::
9. In P::
U--"*
10. There is no point here in P.

11. In S. and R;p
,
12. This stanza Is not Indicated in P. The complete text has been published in
Levi, Llrlca antlca, p.285*
160
95.
S.142v; F.8r; R.48v-49r; P.89v-9Or
r
i'vJj?JJ? Jl>JJjj.'4î
guij.JUi'JJjJj
^See-u-x ia-
hArt:)
Ho P o ^
: r u -
H
- - - le,
jrc
- I- <
mr*-
r
o
be life
."1
6
161
d ^
3(2).Et non fara tua dureea tal plagha

Ch'a servlr te mle fe non sie piu nova
4(1).La qual cercando, altro modo non trova
Per farti ben platosa dl crudele.
5(1).S'Jfti son.
1. There is the usual variation between the relative size of note and rest here.
2. In R:_
a.
3. This sharp appears in R. only.
4. In S; V a ,
J - -i, This is a good example of the use of the rest to which
~ m-t e(
6 ~ i Schering calls attention (Stud.z.Mft.d.Fruhren., p.54),
i ""*^~-o~~
a rest to give the organist an opportunity to fill the
windbox of his instrument. Coning In the only MS. known to have been made especially for an organist such an explanation is reasonable.
6. This point of division appears in P. only.
7. This sharp appears in F. only.
96.
S.i39r.
63
-c
-I- te
be/-J _ le.
--
in I 4"-'
A-//\
_L
~-s _ tau
in,
tri&w - _
'
162
3(2).Perche'l mle cor tuo suol esser conaente

Si vago oggetto in B~b veder gll fay
4(1).Et benche tuo placer contenga guay
E'pensler dl speranca Inanpi vanno.
5(1).Tante beliefe
1. The relative sizes of note and rest vary here.

97.
S.165r; F.1Ov-11r.
163
. . or4(1).D'ongni doglla e sosplro son contento

Et d'esser tuo fedele.
Po che1 non se' crudele
A darmi dl tuo vista dolce posa.
5(1).Vaga fanclulla
1. Thla accidental appears In F. only.
3
2. In s i|
3. In S:
4. This accidental Is omitted in F.
5- m F:r J
, ,
a
6. In S:.
7. This rest is missing In S.
164
H- fe
r
- - -ta
i
. fe
-&-&
i
165
3(2).Ne potra'mai con tua sagicetate

Plgliarml po ch'io conosco 11 rapace
4(1).Tuo pelago, le reti e la fallace
Esca che come sui
Aesalti, e tuol* aversi,
E abasal tuoy.
5(1).Va pure, amore, colle retl tue...
sfc
2. There la tha usualÛscrepancy between note and rest values here.
3.
In F; c\[ A fff f '

* '
~*
'
4. This sharp appears In S. only.

5. This point is in P. only.
6. This stanza is indicated in _S. only.
99.
S.171r.
3d:
/ v;..
di
6
i.V)'-.Ji
-t;
ilL-
- - re.
/>*r
d.
--
At / W-Trt
A-
J J I u - ,j ijitga^j
Jen- -
166
SCT#U:*
Jo .-"tfo
i\
93-
jr^jjj-jiiW^
iVo.
I
^<cejTo
sla
3(2).Vuoi vendetta far per mio fallire *( J

Qual non cognosce e aesai ci 8 penaato.
1'anlmo tuo al servo Srato

6
'""
Puoi acquietarese per durepa d'amorei
5(1).Vidi t i , donna
too.
S.167r; F.lov; R.49r; P.1o3v.
a.
e. bell' e
167
V I P - tM.#t' e
v*
a. _ - -_. .- ---- rS,
- -a.,
3(2).Po che principio fosti della piaga

Si'a ssanarla com'a ffarla ardita,
4(1).Virtu che.regna in te non sie smarlta
Siche in due corpl un B O I O animo sia.
5(1).VJta non e
t. This accidental is omitted in R.

2. In R. and F::
3. In R:.
4. In R:
5 This sharp appears in P. only.
6. The relative sizerof note and rest vary.
7. In F; , ^ &> f; The same in R; ,t. ^~ -08. This sharp appears in S. only,
o. This stanza is omltted~in P.
The text of this ballata appears in Sercambl, Novelie (c.1400), where
it is rendered by singers and players in the introduction to the ninety-seventh
novella. The framework of Sercambi1s work, Including this ballata, Is being
edited at the present time by Dr. Robert S. Pratt from the Milan Trlvulziano
US 1
The text of this ballet;, appears in Sercaubi, Novelie (1374-C.139O), where it is

rendered by singers ind players in the introduction to the ninety-seventh novella. The framework
of Sercu.M's work, incluoin. this ballata, has been edited by Robert S. Pratt in Wm. F. Bryan,
et. al., Sources cmd analogues of Ch.-iucer's Canterbury Tale3 (1941) from the Milan Trivulziano
MS. 193.
168
101.
S.164v; B.30r; P.62r.
//-A
[--d.u.,
r.fTf
I 3L
m- -s^h?
-.. - _
fj!
I S
; r>
far
He
diu
rifffr r .pr f f f
i. 1=^
^*^l ^ * ^ ~
1
-
' I
ffl
EE:
169
11
3(2).Bien che loyal sera'n tout ma vie
4(1).Poyr tant, ay! clere stelle, vos prie
Com lermesê sosplrs trls dousmante
Che loyaiite haies pour vestre amye.
1. This is one of the compositions definitely marked ballata in B.

2. This part is not given in B.
3. A Breve rest in B.
~
4. There is an extra Semibreve rest here in B.
5. There is a point here only in B.
6. This sharp appears in B. only.
7. There is no point here in S.
8. This change is made necessary by the odd number of Breve values in this section.
9. This sharp is missing in S.
10. . has an extra point here.
11. The following stanzas appear only in B.
This is the only work by Francesco that is not written in the Florentine
dialect. Neither is it in the French form which Machault uses. It rather shows
many traits of the Provencal dialect, supporting other evidence as to the influence
of the Troubadour art on the Italian music of the fourteenth century.
170
102.
S.I56V; F.63r; P.I14v-1I5r.
171
-i - ."Ten. - - To
III
172
I Sio.
cti"
Co
3(2).Et certo son seguir fin alia morte.

Cos! sanca martlr ml penao stare.
4(1).Et se per ben servlr ml vorra'atare
Dl sciogller dal legame si crudele,
Inbalslraar faro" pol le catene.
5(1).Amar si....
1. This accidental appears In F. only.

2. S. omits this accidental.
3. This point appears in P. only.
4. In SiJU
'
5. A Minim in S.
6. In F: "
J Jj J 1
173
S.140v;
P.Ujr.
%
Utor
e'A.1
^^-j-t
^ ^
17-4
I //g
,'
3=3=
R,
sen
a-
&-
3(2).C'a nulla cosa si puo aguagllare

Tal la produese chl tutto potea.
4(1).Per che tutta virtu In lei el crea.
0 fellce cul leghl a ttal catena!
1. This part Is not given In P.
2. In S::*
\ J ' 4/
175
104.
F.29V.
di g ^
=^=fr
p I /3
in I
^
"tg
r " f
--inks?)
.- frr r PTT
-fif? -f
176
r:
&
m\ ha.
'' 1
X-
%
<)'-
Uo
oeT- . - "fe
|3
i
ui
COS
_.
- 7
^1
9 .
1
"i'
= ^
j^r-
ê
0 '
J-fi
*-'
te
\ -
-i
. - -11
3(2).Et senpre lej segul per drltte Btrade

Ne ancor troval platS per dire omel.
4 ( 1 ) . M o r t u , solo, sa'quelch'lo vorrel,
Ne la Htaglone a tte mancra, ne'l tempo.
5(1).Anor In te spera1
177
't
105S.152I-; F.34r; P.1o8v-109r.
1. A-.. 1 S-:. -
us
i.
178
l\t
' ss
^f
ob*N-vrva.Ve
VerV.
3(2).In ben oprar veloce, al male % lento
Et 11 suo passo aretra
Per non voler del mondo false lode.
4(1).Onde sua vita a buon porto conduce
Di che suo fama splende
E magior gloria dal superno attende.
5(1).Amor
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
This point
There is a
This point
This sharp
This sharp
6. In F;
of division is found only In F.

point here in P. only.
is not given in S. .
is omitted in S.
appears only in P.
-f- ,
. p
,~.
- ^ ^ r \ \'\\ f ^
7. S.alone indicates a return to the first stanza here.
179
106.
S.161v.
/ . & - -
-r~i-
/.<*..
,. .
9~-
n. i
2=t
J.
/l - -
180
\IO
O - -
C#/i
- -
4(1).Pero ch'i't'amo at perfectamente

Che come che del dono l'ral sia vago
Pocho nel cor m'apaga
Pensando ch'appagata te non senta.
1. A Breve rest in the MS.

2. There Is a point after this ligature. If we assume that this could mean a
repetition of the ligature as indicated above, the tenor part comes out evenly
with the others; otherwise it is two measures short. There is no precedent for
such an assumption however, so the omission is probably a copyist's error.
182
107.
S.163v; P.25v; P.63v-64r.
"t~u.e> I leoafi.
183
cces-he.
Vev+o;
184
3(2).Ne lsperRluro sente o'nganno vede

Pur c 1 adenpla suo voglla con dllecto
4(1).De! non tl sla dispecto
Quell'amorosa ferca ch'ell'accesa,
Fiamraa ch'1'5 nel pecto
Usar ml fece a mmle vita dlfesa.
5(1).Caro
1. In
rff
2. This accidental appears in F. only.

3. This part has text in S. ~
4 . In Ft 0
i ' i J( \4A
5. This flat appears only in P.
6. In F f c
J J j . ' j J 11 J J - * J g> J :
7. This point appears only in P.
8 In
- " ,f, j J J J
9. This point appears only in S.

10. S. has an extra Semibreve rest here.
11. In Fs
12. This stanza isHîdicated in F. only.
185
108.
F.36v-37r.
OU
Vke.
anest
m:
*>'el
m
b-
V ziel bro -
-a1
I
^ -
\o
^Jj
I
-Ce
Jkr
4(1}.Et a chui lice star fixo a verderla

Tutta giola e virtu in se conduce.
6(2).Ancor l'alme beate che in d e l eono

Guardan questa per fena e gentil cosa
7(2).Dicendo: fla che in queeto trono
Segga costei dov'ogni ben si posa.
8(1).E qual nel soramo ldio flccar gll ochi osa
Vede corae esso ogni virtu in lei induce.
1. In S:
2. Although not a true canon, this part is written in rhythmical imitation of the
superiua throughout. It is without text in F.
3. In S;
^=
7\
4. In F:
5. In P:
J.^lhl.1
fj
&
6. This stanza is indicated only in F. The following stanzas are given only In >.
187
109.
S.130v; F.35v-37r; P.
sir &)rie- se -Me//
188
; Parls,n.a.49t7.
- -
3(2).Ben potranno dlr mal, se dir vorranno

Ch'i'non segulti quel ch'l'mi dispuosi.
4(1).Gia lungo tempo e farogli dogliosi
Non gla con vlllanla
lla per tener tal via
Che far non mi potran diventar rosso.
11
5(1).Che pens.....
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
This point is omitted in S.

This sharp appears in P. only.
F. omits this point.
This point appears in P. only.
Only F. has appoint here.
In F; ,.. J
12. In Parl8,n.a.49i7;
13. This sharp is omitted in P.49I7.

14. In P.4917; ....
p
15. This part is omitted In P.49I7.
7. in S:,
* I n -F;
^3
9. In F:
10. Note this progression of six
parallel Fourths.
11. This stanza Is indicated in F. only.
190
110.
S.i53r; 3.79r; P.I13v-114r.
o-'-var
- ' _ . _ _ .
3(2).Che quanto lo'ntelletto e piu possente

Nella ragion piu manca d'ogni lato
4(1).Ma vengamo a rrimedio che cc'8 dato
Che toglie el viver mesto
Del creder puro e stiam contenti a questo.
5(1). Con templar
14
1. This composition is definitely marked ballata in B.

2. This sharp Is omitted in S. Notice that the interval, with the sharp inserted,
is the tritone.
3. A Breve in S.
4. A Long in B.
5. This sharp is omitted in S.
6. This point appears only in B.
7. B. has a sharp before this g.
8. This sharp appears only in B.
9. This point occurs in P. only.
10. B. has an extra Breve rest here.
11. In S;,.. g.
12. In P:
13. This is one of the few points at which the Maxima is used.
14. This stanza is Indicated in S. only.
192
111.
S.152v-I53r; F.32v; R.7ir; P.1O7v-io8r
I. Co*
-Pe-
r r
193
...Je.
'g>
mm
Z. W - - 3. /Ma.
Lre.
s.
o/;.-
ffil
OtrrLjL.
' ua&l
Car,
O <U
tUor
^^71 j ; ,1 j j
va
ai
so
i=fai
,f f f if....
194
,-
VII.
R. 71r,
containing
No.
111.
V.rtk;
5(1).Convlens'a fede.
6(2).Non puo l'anlmo alter senpre
lenere
Subgletto el suo albltro a
chl nol cura >
7(2).Ma vuol dovere ogni cosa a
mlsura
Che con dlsdegno isdegno
fuge'l core.
8(1)
. 2t
9( U.Conviensl a fede fe....'.
1 In F. stanzas four and five are

given after stanzas six and seven.
2. This point is missing in F.
3 This sharp is omitted in S.
4. R. omits this point.
5. This point appears only in S.
6. This point is given in P. only.
7 Note this Imitation of the contratenor of two measures previous.
8. In F:-'
9. This sharp is missing in R.
10. In E:
-f
11. This Is one of two compositions
which have the verto and chluso in the
first section. Gf. the discussion in
chapter V.
12. In F.and R:a
13. In S:/j
16. In F.and P:
17
18.
19
20.
This sharp appears inl?. and R.

This point appears in F. and P.
This sharp Is missing In F. ~
In S
r-
_~
21. The true order of stanzas in this work

is uncertain, due to the variation between
MSS. In S. stanzas 1,2,4 are given with the
music, as above. After the music stanzas 3,
6,7.9 appear in order. In F. 1,2 are with
the music; 3,6,7A,5 are after. In R. 1,2,
3,4 are with the music; none follow. In P.
1,2,4 are given with the music; 3 only is
given after the music. Cf. Plate VII.
*>' -^ -i-
&
14. A Semlbreve in S.
15. In P:j
"
195
112.
S.i32r; F.35v; P.87v-88r
ro c'2*-r-rr\of now) I
J. Pe
%. Dor,
3- - Doirv
ere -de r>iA-
-da.
4(1).L'arco per saettar cuor che oontenda
A llegladrie per moBtrarsi a che'l
g
vede.
5(1).CoBa....
6(2).Ma cerca amor un fedel cuor gentile,
Honeato, umlle et cheto et quel
saetta.
7(2).Et sottomette al BUO caldo futile.
Se quest*e, dunque a tte, donna,
s'aspecta
8(1).D'aver pleta della mle fe perfecta
Che grida ognor merpe, mer?, merje.
1. The relative sizes or note ana rest

vary.
2. A d In S.
3. There Is an extra Semlbreve rest here
In P.
4. This stanza is placed here only in P.
The other MSS. place it after the music.
5. This sharp 1 B omitted in S.
The following stanzas appear only in 2 .
7. The contratenor 1 B without text ln_F.
197
113.
u ''j ^H.IS
j
. Dei,-.,
tl
II
x t
/'d-!-',-
&&
- - - - - - 4 .
S.145v-H6r.
q
g^=c
\S- - - J -
,{
m
< /?
ê
g-
.V. J
' di.
^feJt
l-d-
Urt
198
Cl
LJ
\ Q
rt r%
v
r r n i ff y t
- _ ,_l
i
=t=z
1. Note this imitation of the contratenor, with a

figure which is used several other times.
2. The MS. has an extra Breve rest at this point.
3. The fourth stanza, which is found in all other
ballate save the fragments beginning with no.150,
is missing here although there was adequate space
in the US. for it. The position of stanza three
indicates that the ballata form was nevertheless
intended.
199
114.
F.39V.
m
/. Oi'_ --j Venne*
I?'1'
oc
fcr
/>/
+!îi'
I6 J J j 1 j . J
iro ui-?r'-o5e.
I 9<*e
be
1- ?//
I (T
'
**;
200
oc-^/ I />/
/
>
,1
f f'
-r&
11
fl<
5
*
^_^_
in.e
r>-
11r^
i
|k
"
I
r+.
--
Sen - "tc
Tj
V\-yf2.-C
W-p 95p
Tf
<*- -- |-a-
IT 1
â
| o
^;
'
...rti, Ctrci
"l
1
-H
uto :
3(2).Ritorna a immaglnare quella eerena

Vista la qual ml par Candida rosa
A(1).Et coal guldo mie vita noiosa
Et tanto sto in guerra quant'io tardo
D'immaginar per chul passommi 11 dardo.
Y. There Is a cross at this point In the MS., Indicating the exact beginning of
the yerto. It is the only place where this is clearly indicated; usually the
transcriber must Judge by the length of the chluso.
201
J
J
115.
S.145r; F.33r; B.53v; P.i0iv-i02r.
.
7en.r-. OendL//
fTf'f
&?=&?
-$,
JL.
3
T?^
Sfeuv
202
Lr>;
.ftfr.
=c
I 3*v
3s
^
b e - I
I
-gr
h*
U2-
sreva
I P
rr.ffr.f
3(2). Et se lie sentlral tanto angosclose

Quanto le sente el mle cor con affanno
4(1). Forse che allor ristoreral 11 danno
Delle mle pene aniare
Et per te poy non flen tenute care.
5(1). Donna, i'prego
1. A Minim in B.
2. This point is missing in B. and P.
3. Here the point is omitted in S.
4. This flat appears only in F. "~
6. This part has text in P. Many times notes, sustained in other 1ISS. as given
above, are divided in this 1CS. to fit the syllables.
7. This sharp is giver, in B. only.
8. This flat appears in P. only.
9. These are Long rests in B.
10. This point is given only in F.
11. This point appears in F. and B.
12. In addition to the signature of F. this flat appears in B. and P.
13. This sharp is given in B. and P.
14. This point occurs in B. only.
15. A d in B.
16. Notice the triad at this cadence.
17. In Si
> ^
..^*7>,,. n
203
116.
; F.5v-6r; P.52v-53r.
JJ.
C(,
AIM.
T=!
=4
VI
rff
ft if f - f
klri:
3(2).Po che non vedrete

El bel vlso lucente et gratioso.
4(1).Lasso, a mme doloroso
Dunque omal vl chiudete
Po che'l placer perdete
Che consolava ongnl altro sentlmento.
Q
5(1).Donna,
6(2).Quel ben che tu m'a'dato
Anor, del, dlmml se gli e da gradlre
7(2).Da po ch'i'son prlvato
Dal dolcle, po che B'% facto sentlre
8(1).Non e maggior martlro
Ch'esser abandonnato
Dl'l diletto gustato
E ben llo provo onde ne ne lamento.
9(1).Donna11 tuo parti
1. S. has a c-clef by mistake at the beginning of this part instead of the

f-clef. The part is not Given in F.
2. A Breve in S. In P. this measure reads;
3. This sharp is omitted
4. F. has text with this
all the syllables.
5. This sharp appears in
6 I S
in P.
part, dividing some of the notes to accommodate
F. only.
"
JSO.d~
7. In F:
8. This stanza is omitted in P. The remaining stanzas are given only in F.
205
S.146v; F.36r.
206
207
3(2).Et penso quando ad te mi diede amore

Che frutto diventai per tuo virtute
4(1).Morto nell'ombre con nove ferute
A lluce ritornal
La quel mlrando, non morro giamay.
5(1).Donna....
6(2).Questo valor tien seco la mie fede
Et fammi d'ogni pena trar dlletto.
7(2).Se l'ocohlo fer'aver di me ti vede,
Rlcorre la nemoria al primo effetto
8(1).Mostrandoti pletos'all1inteletto
Tal che gli amarl guay
Da mme dlscaccio e fa clo che tu say.
6
9(1).Donna....
1O(2).Fa', credi, pensa et dl'pur a tuo posta
C'ongni mal quanto in me pace mi fia.
11(2).E ver che tua vergongnl'assai ml costa,
Che biasno segue a donna usar follia
12(1).Dulml che lla tua colpa vuo'far mia
Ma quanto piu diray,
Tacendo mosterro ch'i'non fallay.
13(1).Donna per farmii
1. This sharp occurs only in F.

2. In F:ty ,..%i, . - ^
4. Notice again the use of a triad as partial cadence at the verto. Here its
resolution is shown in the chluso.
5. This stanza is indicated in F. only.
6. This and subsequent stanzas are indicated in F. only.
208
118.
S.147r; F . 3 1 r ; 3 . 7 4 v - 7 5 r ; P . 8 4 v - 8 5 r .
I
I. El
| j / ' e - ran_i.
ULJ
v*7
209
y f' f
210
t9
4(1).Onde mal fa chi tanta fede oblia
Et raostra altrui
Che'n donna non si puo aver fidanca.
on
5(1).El gram
1. This sharp is onitted in P.

2. This point appears only In B.
3. In F. and P; f}
,
4. This part is omitted in P.
5. This sharp Is omitted in S. and B.
7. A Long in B.
8. There is an extra Semibreve rest here in B.
9. In S. this is only a Breve.
10. A.n a in B.
11. This sharp appears in F. and B.
12. In F:.
13 B. has a Breve rest here.
14. This sharp occurs in B. only.
15. In F:_
1-6. In B. and P:
17. S. has a b here."^
18. In B:
^~>

<
'
19. This stanza is omitted in S.

20. This stanza is given in F. only.
211
119.
S.U7v-H8r; F.24v.
212
^SH
&
tera
'/T
1-
T=
s
4
i
I
LAis
s^tE
ji
o-
Okiut"^ I
-L..Tfe.
'^-
UJ=
. rt.
gt-
cl'.. 5oJ21
^t
Ckiu*<>:
3(2).Pogli dinancl al volto aceio che grave

Conprenda quanto a mm'e del suo conspecto
4(1).Esser lontano e gli e c'altro dlletto
Non 6 che llei veder di tutt'el fiore.
5(1).El mie dolce
1. This sharp appears only In

F
.
.
2. This is the highest note reached In any of Francesco's music.
'
5. In F::
6. Notice this imitation of the contratenor. It is repeated Inversely in the

next measure of the superius. Cf. a similar passage six measures later.
7. This stanza is Indicated in F. only.
Wolf has published this composition in his Sing- und Spielmuslk
and his Geschlchte der Huslk, confusing it with the madrigals as to form.
213
120.
.
S.i33r; F.27v-28r; R.52V; P.66v-67r.
>- f g? '
#H^
*\ Ff <
3 . A/e
>-*-
i
Sfcu-nil.
215
4(1).Po che la tuo bilta tanto mi tene

Sugetto a tte che d'altro non ni
Sosta la grave pena che m'assale
Vegendo a ss^ gram fe far vlllania.
5(1).Gentil aspetto.,..... *
1. The unusual signature of two flats occurs here In P. The use of these accidentals (b and ) In other MSS. Is Indicated at the appropriate places throughout the part. P. also has text with this part, dividing some notes to accommodate
all the syllables.
2. This point occurs only In R.
3. This sharp appears In P. only.
4. This point is given only in P.
5. Here the point appears in both R. and P.
6. This point is omitted in F.
7. This flat occurs in R. as well as P.
8. This flat is given in F. as well as P.
9. In F. and R;I
3
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15-
This flat is given in S. as well as P.

This accidental appears in all MSS. save R.
ThiB accidental is found in all MSS. save P.
This flat appears only in S_.
Here the sharp occurs in all MSS. save F.
In Si,., ,
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
This accidental appears in P. and R. only.

This flat is given in F. only.
~
This sharp is found in~R. only.
This point appears in F. and R.
In Pi 0
'
"
S.
21. This is the only composition by Francesco in R. which has the first and
second endings marked. They are called Overta and Clus.
22. In R. the stanza ends at this point and is followed by the indication for
stanza five.
23. This stanza is indicated in F. only.
The first section of the music to this work has been published in
Besseler, Muslk d. M.A., p.162. The text has been published in Carducci,
Cant., p.3W.
The first section of the music to this work has been published In
Besseler, Muslk d. M.A., p. 162. The text has been published in Carducci,
Cant., p. 317- A portion of this ballata has been identified on fol. 3v
of the fragmentary manuscript of the Archivio Capitolare of the Cathedral
at Pistoia. Cf. Federico Ghisi, 'Un frammento musicale della "Ara Nova
Italiana,"1 Elvlata mu3icale ltaliana, XLII (1938), 162-168.
217
121.
S.169v; F.39r; P.1i7v-118r.
rTT . '
L fe
TO
Li
&
I-
Fr - - - i
i f
^^=gt
er Jc
mrir
-rr-
), l / o tuorir
jfe
Qt:
/>.">
sell
La.
218
rz.
4(1).De! per Dio, B\ ml dolgo; abblral un poco

Per lscusato, amore,
tu'ardore non a In coatel effetto.
1. In S. this note Is omittea.

2. In S;.(?
7. A In S.
8. In F:_n
3. An f In F.
4. In S. this measure Is written:
9. This stanza Is Indicated In F. only.

5. This flat appears only In F.
219
122.
S.160v; P.25r.
220
3(2).0be come son dlnanpi al suo conspetto

In pace pongo clascun mle desire
4(1).0gnl vllta nel cor aento perlre
E'n se virtu destare.
Chi l'usa dl mirare,
Ha nne'costuml auoi l'anim'avecpa.
5(1).Giunta.
1. S. lacks the followine four neasures.

2. In S:_J_
V j ;. *..
\ l
phrase of the text to stanza two at this point
in the tenor.
The complete text has been published in Capelll, Poe_sle, p.29.
123.
; F . 2 6 r ; B.29v-3Or; R.34v; P.67v-68r
ocht ;
-I-
222
I uvfcve d(Ji
al|
~
.re.
I 0\ en
4(1).Et ben ch'lo viva, mal non vo'eegulre

Se non vo 1 , chlara stella et dolc'amore.
5(1).Gram plant'agll ochi.
1. In all three parts in all five MSS. the time values vary here, some having a
long note and Breve rest, others having a Long note and Long rest.
2. In B. only; In all others the c is repeated here.
3. A point of division only in B."
4. This flat appears only in B.
5. A in F.
6. In F; }
*'
7. Note that the last four measures are alike in both sections.
This is one of the few compositions which are definitely marked
ballata in B. It was previously published by Ludwig, Z. f. Kw., V, 459. The
verses have been published by Levl, p.142.
223
124.
S.161v; F.2ir; B.24v-25r.
I-Gulr
d'u. J
- - /a,IV\-e>"a.J
verse
l+*>
'
I
\ser- .
. 54.VHe/f/j?
PPH
5 *4\*
4(1).Quella virtu d'amor che llul splra

Per che d1assal ti vede
Accenda te per la suo pura fede.
rd.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
B. has an extra Semibreve rest here.

In B. this is a Long, followed by a point.'
This sharp appears only in S.
This is only a Breve in S.
An f in S.
This sharp appears only in F.
In B:-
t^j=
=
' m5u *
8. This signature is given in F. and B.
9. Note the unusual spread of the harmony at this point.
10. This sharp appears two notes later in B.
11. This flat is omitted in S.
225
125.
S.162r; B.47v-48r.
SP
HL.
j ; ijJjNj;
^=C
/ I
-&*
3
or/ . . p * a.-'--men
|
L
'e
-1 - ^
226
i 1 ^ . - - "I
'
^
I /
P
dt
-te.
41-
J-ffjH
bet
k - --
'
:rriJJi-iJg ! J J !
I
tile
-iJnL
in
liri
- JJN-'tfJ-'Jg
L
J3L
<73i
rJL,
227
3(2).Pero pur spera l'anlma mle trista,

Per ben servlr, suo merto In tal creatura.
4(1).Che mal sarfa che('n) ssi nobil figura
Celato stesse sdegno o crudeltade.
1. This part is omitted in B.

2. A Breve rest in B.
3. A Semibreve rest~ln S.
4. There is a Long rest here in B.
5. This flat appears in B. only.
6. This point is given in B. only.
7. Note again how the phrases of the contratenor overlap and imitate the superlus.
8. A d in B.
9. This sharp is given only in S,
10. In B:-
^ ^ J J J J J '
11. In B:.
12.
13.
14.
15.
This Maxima is given in B. only} S. has two Longs instead.

B. has an extra Minim relit here.
There is a point after these two notes in B.
B. has an extra Breve rest here.
228
; B.SOr; R.47v; P.ioor.
'
/I
229
3_
JI
I
D'I1
-i___.
&r
is
3(2).Adorna se'colla suo gentllejpa
Humana, no, ma su, dal paradlso
4(1 J.Donne, vedete el plu bel c'altro viso,
Da llel aprendete, ch'l'dir nol eaprel,
Quanto tieogna a ttal virtu da ley.
5(1).La dolce.
230
5-
1.
as
in
is
2.
3.
4.
In B. this is definitely marked baliata. Only the first three words are given
title; otherwise the text is entirely missing in each part. Except for no.143
the Prague MS., this is the only occasion where one of Francesco's compositions
given in such a manner, indicating its probable use as an instrumental number.
This point appears only in R.
This point is given in B. and R.
In B:
~
5. R. and P. have text with this part, dividing some of the note values in order
to accommodate all the syllables. The flat is found in the signature of S. and P.
6. This part is given only in R. Its style is so different from that of The other
contratenors, especially the passages of parallel Fourths at the end of each
section, that we doubt very much if Francesco wrote it. There are no captions
given with the part.
7. In B: .
,
8. In B:
==3=3
1~I
R:.
11. In B:
12. In P:
ff, . .Tf'
The same in P;_
13. In B:
14. This is only a Minim in B.

15. In R:
16. B. has two extra Minim rests here.

17. In R: .
lA=P3=i
18. This stanza is given only in P.

19. The following stanzas are omitted in R.
The text to this baliata has been published by Trucchl, Poesle.II.161.
231
127.
S.i3ir; F.31v-32r; B.75v-76r; P.65v-66r.
/. L XI
/. Ill
. --ce
U'oL\-v4,
i>o
cfie "folio
232
rvi,>
pia.n
jc
m
-
- y-
r! *
233
!r
he( ,-tuo t>r{mo t***-
3(2).Sperando aver la gratia che ss'aquista

Ispesse ' volte per virtu d'amare
4(1J.Or^veglo la speranpa mia mancare
Che l'uso non ni fay
Che tu solevl, ond'lo sto in pane et in guay.
24
5(1).L'alraa
234
1. This
2. "hi a
3. This
4. This
5
* In B
6
7.
8.
9.
composition is definitely marked ballata In B.

accidental is given only In B.
~
sharp appears only in P.
part is given without text In B.
This sharp is omitted in B. and P.

A c in B.
This is only a Breve in S.
In B:J
10.
11.
12.
13.

This Breve rest is lacking in S.
A Long in B.
In B;
n .
14. An a in S.
'5- In B;.(?
16. B. omits this sharp.
17- In B: j>
18. In F .
. 9 . In
!
Lm 'y
''
2.
2 0 . In B:
J
21. B. lacks this Breve rest.
22. This point appears only in B.
23. In S. and Z ; ,^. u
H
24. This stanza is not indicated in 3. and P.
235
128.
S.i50v; F.26v-27r.
236
4(1).E ben ch'io m'accoatassy

A mirar suo blltate
Pur mia lealtate
Ruppe el vaso aspecto
Che rleplende.
5(1).La mente.
1. An e in S.
2. In
''$
3.
A.
5.
6.
This 1 B only a Minim in both MSS.

This sharp appears in F. only.
This entire measure is missing in S.
The last six measures of both sections are identical In each part.
The text of this ballata, with four additional stanzas, has been
published in Carducci, Cant.~ pt'55
237
129.
- - so
'
S.i32v; F.28v; P.92v-93r.

i
owe
vin -&. ir\-mlmjo~-rii.-\~.-to
fi:
=e=f=jft
238
-I. -
3(2).Placer non e che mai potessi averlc

Ma le promease dolcl e'l viso belle
A llel sanca raglon ml ffanno
uralle,
ACt).Ben ch'i'conosca 11 euo raalvaglo
'
stile
Ancor la mente atolta non si sacia
Famml si lncontro, non prendo la
gratia.
Altrl che'l vero amante fa beato.
5(1).LasBO!, dl donna
'I. The alternative to this upbeat is a metre based on the Breve vûe. Cf. no.153.
2. In S:M
r
:
3 . This sharp appears onlyin F.
8
P
%\ St ms triafcoSlns
6. A
<J
of a section, and i t s prompt resolution.
T^
in F.
8*. Se^list-êven measures are identical In both sections.

9. This'stanza is indicated only in 5.
239
S.131v; B.48v-49r.
10
i n - -
3(2).Ma par che'l rale servire ell'abbla a sdegno

Cone crudel ch'alcun'amor non eente
4(1).Ne per altra caglon cosi dolente
Vlver mi fa e stare In tanto ardore.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
A Long in B.
A Minim in B.
This sharp Is in B. only.
This accidental is in S. only.
A Breve in B.
In B:_A_
33
7. There is a point here in B.
8. A Semlbreve in B.
131.
S.i29v-i3Or; P.i27v-128r.
fwvx S f i
(">
Ssen
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
__
J J;J J J i
243
_ _ _
PS
TCr
7
Cfj a
--sci
OBI*-*
sen - - U> -if!
^ c M^ ^ ^
UJ-
sn*o
4(1).Sara la norte non picciolo acqulsto

Po che tanto diviso
Se'dal tuo paradlso
Dimque, de'7 chlama lei pietosamente.
1. In PJNotice the altered position of 4. In P:
the text):
)
&
-ma seguendo quel tuo dolce

El me gli dl te qui - - - -vi5. This sharp appears in P. only.
2. S. has an extra Breve rest here.
6. In P; ^. _^ _^_ ^_ ^2. .g.
r
3. In P:
j. 1 r r 1 ;
1 '=.
r ff-
3={
qual ti priv'attor
7. A d in P.
do-ve tutto gir non se poe-sen'8. In_P;
-sci'ogni senso t r i - - -
132.
S.168v; P.23v.
(5)
A IA
r*ii
^-1^
n't
J. ' "Jttjl J
\W;
i.
In F: p
I I . '
4(1).Pero che prima puo l'anima mia
2. This sharp is'given in F. only.
'
Ch1abandonarti col corpo morire. 3. This point appears only in F.
4. A d in S.
9
5- A Long in S
5(1).Nella mie vita.....
6. In S:
*9-i
-f
ir
7. A c in S.
8.
A ,lnS.
9. This stanza is indicated only in 3.
246
133.
S.139V; F.38v;
j J
-QL
J'lJJWiW* -i | JJ JJjJ^P
*
P.1i5v-1t6r.
i*j>**i
7^..
^ô^ b f~l |>X-C.
1. F. and S. have a flat and sharp

aide by aide here; P. haa only the
latter.
3(2).Ma 1 dolcl mle sospirl
2. A d in S.
Chi torra? che con plu ml TTai dolere
eento amore che mral conauma e sface 3. This flat appeara only in P.
4. Thia accidental is given in F.only.
5. This accidental is omitted in S.
4(1).Tu sola, la mla pace,
6. This flat is missing in F.
Quel ben che'l mio cor chlede, al In
7. In S:H'
tua balla
Et fuor dl te non spera ne dlsla.
5( 1).Ne'n clascxm.
8. This stanza la indicated only in S.
248
134.
S.162v; F.4or; B.76v-77r; P.116v-1i7r.
7
ZTs
' Net . . I . .
on-- A- %Pet-r*n
"
JSL
a/M
g
/. ATcs .
TTT
Sun
DO~-.
f " \f f ri s
a*
/. M r s - - .
-oil-
--to
5ri
- .
on
-- f3-
cat-
sin
*V
2-V
250
&
VIII.
P- 116v-117r, containing No. 134
3(2).Che se nel tenpo verde non s'appara,

Tropp'e greve nel tenpo.
4(1).Vol, glovanl, per tenpo,
Vogllate el tenpo porre,
Che ssl veloce corre,
Nella virtu c'ogn'altra cosa avanca.
5(1).Nessuh ponga speranca....
2. B. has an extra breve rest here.
3. In B;^.'
4. In B. this part Is without text. The three following measures have a confused
succession of via artls signs.
5. This point is missing in F. and P.
6. This point appears In F. and B. only.
7. This point is given in B. only.
8. There is a sharp here in F. only.
9. Tnis is a Semlbreve in S.
10. There are two Minims here in B.
11. There is a point here only in F.
12. In ]
13. This is a Long in B.
14. This measure is made out of proportion in B. with via artls signs.
15. This point is found in F. and P.
16. In P. the flat of the signature is omitted for one line. This has the effect
of raisinp. this and the following b. Cf. Plate VIII.
17. B. has an extra flemlbreve rest here.
18. This accidental appears in F. and B.
19. Fron this point to the end, B. has an incoherent succession of via artls.
20. This stanza is indicated in F. and B. only.
251
135.
S.1;34r; F.30v; B.23v-24r; R.52r; P.61v-62r.
252
38
3(2).Sol pella sua beliefa che conforto
D'altro non prende l'anlma dolente.
4(1).Forse da llei earebbono In me spente
Le fiamme che nel core
Di giorno in giorno crescono 1 dolore.
39
5(1).Non ara ma'
% A to:
253
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
This point appears in B. and P.

This sharp is given in S, B, and P.
This point appears In B 7 only.
B. lacks this point.
In P::'
6. This part has text In S.

7. This point is only in R.
8. B. has a Semibreve rest and point here.
9. This sharp 1 B found in F. n,nd B.
10. This point is missing in S.
11. This point is found in B. and R.
12. This sharp is omitted in R.
14. This point is found in R. and P.
15. This accidental is in F. only."
16. In S. and P. this flat comes in the previous measure.
17. In F:?
The same In R:_
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23
mm
In B. the following two measures contain only Minims.

This accidental is in S. and B.
S. and P. omit this accidental.
In S. and P. this flat occurs two measures earlier.
This accidental is given only in S. and P.
I R
1
in
n:
r
24. In R:
25. In S. and P:^

$=*
26. This point apceai
27. In F. and
-4
*
4
in F. and R.
1
29. This point Is found in F. only.

30. This sharp appears in B. and P.
31. In R:.
3?.
33.
34.
35
36.
This point appears In R. and P.

S. and R. lack this accidental.
This point is missing in R.
In F. this is the first Semibreve of a ligature.
In Ft2
.
The same in R:
j
1
37. This sharp is given in S.

38. In ^. this stanza is beneath the second section of the tenor part.
39 This stanza is Indicated in F. only.
This was the first of Francesco's works to receive transcription
to modern notation. Fetis deciphered the first section and published it In the
first issue of La Revue Muslcale, 1827. It was later reprinted in his Hist, de la,
musique, V. The text is by Bindo d'Alesso Donati, and is published in Carducci,
Cant., p. 309.
254
136.
S.134V;
255
F.24r; R.37r.
c W *;
3(2).Ma per torraento del tuo servldore

Che In te si specchia e muor per tuo vagheea
4(1).Po che degli ochl vaghi usci la frecca
Che 11'amoroso cor conquide a ttorto.
19
5(1).Non do la colp'a
1. A l l points of division used i n this

composition a r e given in R . only.
2 . A b in F.
3. A Semibreve In S.
4. This accidental is omitted in R.
5. This sharp is riven in F. only.
6. Semibreves in F.
7. A d in R.
~
8. ThTs note is omitted in S.
9. A g in F.
10. This accidental i s omitted in S.
11. In F:
12. A d in S.
256
12a. In S:.
13. A Long In S.
14. This flat is in S. only.
^l
ri f
16. In F:.
17. A b In F.
18. Th chiuso in this part was omitted
in R.
19. This stanza is not indicated in R.
137.
S.159V;
r i r Tt\
257
F.34v; P.86v-87r.
i riff
irrr f
258
1r
4(1).Se conteco dimora

Benignita che sdegnosa non sia,
Per certo ogni altra da parte si stia.
5(1).O fanclulla giulia....
6(2).Ognor fra me quanto plu te rlpenao
Piu creace'l foco e plu soapir fuor mando.
7(2).Per che di te mi pare aver conprenso
Sempre magglo virtu a ccio pensando.
8(1).De'! glovine sta'quando
Che tu di me pensassi esser porrla,
Et ch'lo vedessi un poco a me te pia.
1. Thia part haa text In S.
2 Ins
"
7"H i l l
5. This sharp is lacking in S.

4. In F; t
=
5. In P:
6. S. and F. have a point here.
7. In
8. A Long in S.
9. This sharp~appears In F. only.
10. Note the triad at this cadence. It is resolved in the chluso.
11. This stanza is not indicated In P. The
following stanzas appear only in F. ~"
12.S.lacks the chluso of the contratenor.
"~ The text to this work is by Francesco.
It has been published in Carduccl, Cant.,
p.319, and in Trucchl, Poesle. II, 154.
259
138.
S.142r.
H c -*d ; u$ ***J2
..I' +1 I Vs.. le-te|T
f ^/Iff fffI
i
260
m
i. N e \ - . | - l e
i1
Mm
S u o I w . , c e l s . c \ e * . 4 ' ' e-
s
sf&vil.. .la.
W~*JlAiJJ
A - -
3(2).(Ma l'alma mia,fedeliasima ancllla,

Plata non trova in questa chiara lampa,
E null1 altro che lei ama o dJsira.
4(1).O sacra idaea, al tuo servoûn po1splra
Hercd: mercS sol chlamo, gla conquiso:
De, fallo pria che morte n'abbia anciso.)
1. Stanzas three and four do not appear in S. but are given by Carducci, Cant.,
p.320, and by Wesselofsky. The text is probaBly by Francesco. This is the ballata
which was sung in the Paradlso dep;ll Albertl. The text as given there has the
following line In place of line three of the first stanza: 'Mlrate d'esta Cosa
auo bel vlso*.
261
13
; P.27v-28r.
x
EL I Cor- - . - P
-.re
a.
el
^ni ' i"
r *h'f f
262
I m
\ r i r.
263
1. . lacks this sharp.

2. In B;;M
W
3
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
This point Is missing In B.

From this point to the end of the first section, S. was copied a Third higher.
This sharp appears in B. only.
~
An a in S.
""
This point was given only in S.
In B:__
a
9. In F:
The same in B:
10. In B:
11. This point is omitted in F.
12. Cf. these last seven measures with those of stanza one. There is a Long rest
here in S. and F. In the tenor and contratenor parts these USS. have a phrase
Indication, as shown above, at the beginning of the next measure. B. has a single
barline here, similar to the ones which it has at the verto and chluso earlier.
These facts indicate a distinct division of the work at this point, so that the
music which follows may be regarded as a new setting for the third stanza, in place
of the usual repetition of tl>.? music of stanza two.
15. In B. this work is definitely labelled a ballata.
14. This stanza is not given in B.
15 Cf. the use of the verto and chiuso in the first section of no.111. The music
continues with stanza two, reserving the chluso for the return In stanza four.
17. This sharp is given in F. only.
18. The following three measures of the tenor are missing in S.
19- The last eight measures are identical to those to be sung with stanza four,
and are also very similar to those of the first two stanzas.
264
HO.
S.J64r; F.3pr; B.25v; P.64v-65r.
_ _
X. Ntau
4. - OHO.
fHOJi
0 >
PPP
tero
Jell a-[
3. TM
^
3=TJE
-r
c /a. fi
7-Ti^
=St
- - - M<r >
?: -P
^
es
"Ac
T\f f!|'irta
aMe/ eAa J/TH.
^=v-
cni- Sew.
1. + e .
15
4(l).Convien che sia sentita'
Da 111 quanto'l nimlca la mle voglia
Se gla con greve doglia
La vita non conduce a mortal segno.
5(1).Perche
8(2).Di clo che's1 ffatto mi fia sofferente
La mente da che vuoi, donna gradita.
9(1).Ma la fortuna mia or'e smarita,
Forse tenpo verrS con mlglior segno.
10(1).Per che tuo serv'e
1A
i3(2).Perche cerca la mente
Far cosa che dallei fosse gradita
14(1).Adunque se'punlta.
Non vuol che^sia l'offesa
Non e far piu contesa,
pe'rlverenca del suo aspecto degno.
266
17
1. This Is marked ballata In R~

2. This point appears in B. only.
3. This accidental Is given only in P.
4. A c in S.
"*
5. This accidental is missing in B.
7. B. has a Semlbreve rest extra here.
8
-Tn
9. A Minim In S.
10. This aharp""is lacking In B. and P.
11. This sharp is given in P. only. ~
12. A Semibreve in S.
13. In P;
p +.+.jLm ^.. In B. the three parts read;
~ -y. ' T I T li '. ~
I i II
.gj. J ^ ^ j J
')'f ff^.
\~-^~i
14. In S:
15. Stanza four is given after the superius part in each MS. These first four
stanzas have been published by Trucchl, Poesle, II, 163*
16. This stanza is indicated In F. only.
17. Stanzas eight and nine are given after the tenor part in each US.
18. Stanzas thirteen and fourteen are given after the contratenor part In S. and_P.
Sach part has a complete ballata text of four stanzas unto itself. As
In the case of no.11, the continuity of the text Justifies the belief that the
verses were sung separately, one at a time In order, as numbered above.
267
S.143r.
JJjijjJ.
Cfce
Mv
i so
--
! r ...f
268
Ju^, "
i
i
. _
. i - - - - - -
fifrfr
269
-->
3(2).Principal verbo fosti al gran dlsio

Perfecto, gratioso e tanto soro
4(1).Che come tra metalli fulge l'oro.
Alia virtu di te ognl
altra more,
Tanta nel mondo seYdegnia d'onore.
5(1).Per la mie dolce piaga
6(2).O nobil treca di color d'argento
Troppo serrastl el cor al tuo servlre.
7(2).Che nullo amante piu lo, bene el sento,
Nel fraile mondo giu potrebbe patire.
8(1).Tante virtu'n un corpo el sommo sire
A giunto alle believe e'l gran valore
Per legar ben'e stretto el eervidore.
9(1)Per la mie dolce piaga
1. Tempua perfeotvm.
2. This is a d In the MS.
3. A Minim in the MS.
4. Tempus Imperfectum. In the MS. both these signs fill only one space, rather
than the entire staff as was the later practice.
A reproduction of the original notation may be found in Wolf, Gesch.
d.Mens.not., II, 92, with a transcription in III, 125. Riemann (Hdb.d.Masiicgesch.,
1,2, 330) gives this in a distorted form to support his hypothesis regarding instrumental preludes, etc. With this he also gives an added distortion to show the fundamental structure based, as he maintains, on faux-bourdon.
270
142.
S.166r; F.21v; R.48r; P.62y-63r.
la
spr- - an- -f
i eha
mi
271
ore
3(2).Pero che lla ragion pur mi rafrena

Onde dlsposto son cosi morire,
4( 1) .lla ben tl pregho, amor, de! non soffrire
Ch'lo pera in tanto obllo,
Talle palese tu el voler mio.
5(1).Per seguir la speranca.
11
T. This accidental is omitted in P.

2. An f in P.
3. There is a natural here in F.
4. The sizes of note and rest vary here in each MS., in all three parts.
6. In R. from this point to the end of the first 'section, the part 16 written a
Third Higher.
7. This accidental is found in F. and B.
8. In F. and R., this sharp doe's not occur until the next measure; whereas in S. it
affects the entire phrase.
9. Note that the last six measures are Identical with those of the first section.
10. In R. and P. this sharp is placed before the follo7/lng f rather than here.
11. Thili stanza is indicated only by S. and P.
This text, accredited to Francesco, Is published in Trucchi, Poe_sie_,II, 156.
272
S. I65v; F 23r; P.
; Prrguo, XI.E.o, S4Sr.
"fe
ver_. .
- - - i
273
Ve Xô A^-
3(2).Solo 11 pensler ch'l'sle da llel dlvlso

Ben che l'ochlo mental sempre la vede
4(1).0nde ti chero, alta donna, mercede.
Che quando tornera quel dolce tempo
Al quale per vedertl'l1spendo'l tenpo
Non ml sla del tuo aspetto avara.
5(1).Po che partlr con
1. In F:
2. This sharp is given in F. only.
3. In P. and the Prague MST
''" vi r 'A r g
4.
5.
6.
7.
S. omits this o,
This is a Semlbreve in S.
This sharp appears only~in S.
In S^
^
8. In S:
:^TJ ;
9. In S:
10.
11.
12.
13.
This
This
This
This
stanza Is lnalcated In S. only.

composition appears without text In the Prague US.
sharp Is omitted in the Prague MS.
note is omitted in the Prague MS.
275 .
144.
S.i54r; F.35r; P.88v-89r.
I. Po
, - Sft,
1
<til( a s - - - .
m
v/
</.!('
mm
Co M
276
\{ieL--
ore
6~'
dSi
/.<"
Sen
c o I ca_ - - -
rie
/--/a.
i"^ ...m
i
ica--i
ve- - -
i=p
\ p
V/ei-f- .
IT
*"**+
/
i
3(2).Et benche separato el corpo dolga

Raceordaral di lui da refrlgerio
4(i).Quando da see a sse l'uom nel pensiero
Rassegna e suoi fidatl et chi e atato.
5(1).Posto che
1. This sharp is lacking in S.

2. This point Is omitted in P.
3 In P; o
j
4. An f in S.
5. Hal's flat appears only In P.
6. This point is omitted in S.
7. In P, this b is flatted, thus making an Augmented Second with the -sharp
which follows.
10.
11.
12.
13.
This sharp is given only in F.

P. lacks this Semibreve value.
In Si
- ^ N-p- r
14. In F
15. This is sharped in P, making another augmented Interval for the singer.
278
145.
S.U3v; F.26v-27r; B.49v-50r; R.50r; P.9Ov-9tr.
too
I
- Co
? " ?r
Co
Co
/hi
s\cceniel
0
{J
I "& - a-
m$
r0-
be oh'
C3
. J - CO.
^" 3LCCffid
'(
re
_ _ . . _ _ . -
279
-to.
Dd- "/wo (M//
-f
2. Se.
-&-*-
'
pe
^h-^m
H
I.Sc
Se/-
- .-4
i-
r rr r
280
3(2).El non sara che'l contrano fa prova

Plil si dlsla quel ch'e duro ad avere.
4(1).Ma vuole el mlo placere,
Allor che'l tuo el move
A rrl5uardar altrove.
Da tte segulre non partir glamay.
5(1).Quanto piu caro fay
6(2).I'credo c'onesta et tua grandecca
Isdenga me e non tl cal d'amore.
7(2).Ma plu amante In donna pon fennecc'a
Servlr quand'e" onesta e dl valore.
8(1).Pero si ch'e non creder fore
Esser della mia mente.
Pero ch' ssi poasente
Ml fe'che non tern partlra glamay.
o(1).Quanto
1. This part lacks text In R.

2. This part lacks text in R. and P.
3. This sharp is given in B. and RT only.
4. This is a Long in B.
~
5. A Semibreve in S.
6. There Is a point here in B.
7. An e in R.
8. A Breve in the ESS.
9. A Breve in F.
10. This accidental Is In R. only.
11. In B:, u
^
(
12. This and the following Semibreve are each minims In B.
13. A Breve in B.
14. In R: _ . _
~r- f r v 11 ^
_ The same in B!
" i^rrr r v m
15. R. has a sharp here which ought to go with the note before thia if anywhere.
16. This sharp is given in B. only.
17. A Long in B. and P.
18. This point is given only in P.
19. This rest is missing in F. In S. the note which follows it Is missing.
20. This stanza is Indicated In S. and B. only. Those following are given only
In F.
281
146.
S.138V;
CovsWoTtwoi"-.
HA.1
|J f
''' r l
282
F.22r; P.99V.
, 3 1
Tl
+-
I ITT
283
3(2).Come nel sole nonn e mal dlfetto

Speral che tu dl me non fussl dura.
4(1).Or vegio bene che contra natura
Son dl dureca tuo blltS vestute
Pol che non al pleta dl rale ferute.
5(1).Quel sol che raca
1. In
2. In
3. P. lacks this sharp.
4. In S:.
5. In S:_A
6. In S:
J' J i J-
11
7. In S:
0
0 Bm
8. In S:
-IJ; -Q.j--i'.
9. S. lacks this
T-0-sharp.
-w1*- ^ -m10. This sharp Is given only In F.
11. I" grp
r,
12. In P:
m
13. This stanza is Indicated only In S.
28-4
147.
S.i38v; F.22v; P.70v.
^j|i J j i
JPCHKOCI.
285
pdfS:
= &
d'Hmr bety
<
s. - -
'ft ffe
r r
it>e
|-
ir
po- -
srrr
3(2).El cor dl me da rame tu at rimosso
Cogll ochl belli et la faccla gloyosa
4(1).Peroâl servo tuo, li\ sle pletosa

Merpe ti chiegho alia gram pena raia.
1 - So
5(1).Questa fanclulla
6(2).Se non soccorri alle doglose pene
II cor mi verra meno che ttu m'a'tolto
7(2).Che la mla vita non sente ma'bene
Se non mirando'l tuo vecoso volto
8(1).Da poi fanclulla che d'amor m'a involto
Priego ch'alquanto a mme benlngrtia eia.
9(1).Questa fanciulla
1.
2.
3.
4.
This part lacks text in F.

This point is found only~in P.
This note is omitted in F. ~
In P:-4
,
5 This measure was omitted in >.

6. This sharp is given only in S.
7 . This stanza is indicated only in S. The following stanzas are found only in F.
Wolf (Hdb.d.Not.kunde.11.254) gives an arrangement of this work in two-part
organ tablature, taken from R. where it appears anonymously. Ludwlg (Adler, Hdb.d.
Muslkgeech..1.281) refers to~an arrarre->ent in the Munich MS.3232a as a Kyrie.
286
148.
S.i37r; p.1oAv-1O5r.
/.Se(--
/c/ior:
J JJ.
-.a.
*=?
i
3=
ccr _ . . . i-
I r fr if r
Ver+b :
3(2).Vinca pieta la tuo voglla gelata

SI ch'a tte placcla el mle leal servire
4(1).Non per ch'l'ntenda mal da tte partlre
Sll quanto vuo'ver me apletata et acerva.
5(1).Selvagia fera,
7
6(2).Nel prlmo aspetto fostl graclosa
Colle tue belle et figurate membra
7(2).Or pur selvagla, altera et dlsdegnosa
Ti Be'mostrata a me se ben t'lnmebra
8(1).O quanta chlara et fulglda tl senbra.
Quella veloce Stella dl Minerva.
9(1).Selvagla
1o(2).Giola, graveca, placimento et doglia
Fan per pieta dl me duro lamento
11(2).Per non ben cerner dl qual piu si spoglia
Quest'angelica forma per cul spento
i2(1).Rlputo me s'el mi e" duro tormento, .
Nel mod'usato lunghamente osserva.
i3(1).Selvagia fera,
1.This point is given only in P.

2.In S.there is a break here in the
staff which is so even in each line
as to indicate the use of a sixpointed lining pen by the copyist.
3.This point is given only in S.
4. This flat appears only in P.
5. This accidental occurs only in S.
6. Another use of the triad at the
cadence.
7. The following stanzas are lacking in P.
The original notation of this
work may be seen in Plate V I .
149.
; P.29r; P.1o6v.
1
noli /lice - tvl Tu*' vol
\~ '
3(2).Et se in me pene tte vedro allegrare

Sera contento'l core.
4(1).Che lumi tuol ml tolgon el dolore
' Et fan.Till si contento
Che mal non sento che sal sia martire.
5(1).S1j'foesi
I. In F:_
2. This measure is missing in S.
3. P. lacks this sharp.
^
4. In F: ,,. - ' " V
i P'
5. This sharp is only in F.
290
FRAMMENTI
150.
S.Uor.
JJ
_-
fn, J ! J J)jJJjj!J
re.
1. Frapments of ballate, having stanzas one and two only. Note that they are
found only In S. No.138 would also be in this category were it not for the
text found elsewhere by Carduccl.
This work uses white notation for the triplets.
291
151.
S.152V.
c.'l\+rJL
r*\i
Con-"Un-ti"
Dov-.-
.-- left; 'o - ^- * M i

Q
ft b-i
292
These verses have been published In Capelll, Poeale muslcall, p.28.
293
152.
S.144v.
eflu -
-&-
e*B
-*t3_ bbtrche.
ere
i/ui
'Sblî'
J J j J J J J J | -I
0'
bh,'
-t-rr
"K
t. Ma-
! SJieciie
Bt
j ^JJU
la.
\/\v\tero
13>
per
fio-
pr
r
pro . _ .
_ _ _ . - _
ML.
This worlc uses white notation for all triplets.
295
153.
S.l38v.
Duo.
com e /
Uo
Uler,
i.
VO--
mm
V*
$-/>< -
-an-.
JJJJ
Ct
-, ' JJ
3==
- - j. .
BL.
::
i e-rfer
296
*C
. - . ._
_|_ . 5e
1. These flats are not In the signature of the HS. but are Inserted each time the
note appears in a phrase throughout both parts of the composition.
2. A c In the MS.
297
S.170V.
>en -
bre-
ifc
0! - ro
cAen - do'(
"tn, --o
~cr
kne
T-?
be-/
z.Gt;
T3L
rf I
&=*
%blei*Aor
I
a
V3L-- U;
de
298
I u.
C e*\ _ _
__
- re
\. The US. has an extra semlbreve rest here

2. The MS. lacks a Semlbreve rest here.
3. This Is only a Breve In the T3.
299
DOCUMENTS
From the records of Magistro della Grascia nell1 Archivo centrale di

Stato (Florence): 1
MCCCLXXXXVII die IIII mensis setembris Magister Francischus de Orchani,
de populo S. Laurentii, decessit; de quarterio S. Johannis; sepultus fuit in
dicta ecclesia per Giglium Luchini bechamortum.
II
The inscription on the grave stone:
Luminibus captus, Franciscus mente capaci cantibus organicis, quern
cunctis Musica solum pretulit, hie cineres, animam super astra reliquit.
M.CCC.LXXXXVII.die.II.sep.
Ill
Giovanni Villani (.c. 1275-1548) was a patriotic merchant of Florence who,
attending the Roman Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII, conceived the idea of writing
a history extolling the glories of his native state. After his death the work
was continued to 1363 by his brother, Matteo, with a still further continuation
by the latter1s son, Filippo. The entire section devoted to music is given below,
taken from the edition of 1847:
De IOANNE BARTHOLO et FRANCISCO Musicis

Musicae artis disciplinam Florentini multi memorabiles habuerej sed qui
aliquid in ea scientia ediderint pauci exstant, inter quos loannes a Cascia, Bartholus et Laurentius Masini prae ceteris praestantius et artificiosius cecinerunt.
Quorum primus, cum partim organo, partim modulatis per concentum vocibus
in nostra maiori ecclesia symbolum caneretur, tarn suavi dulcique sono artisque
diligentia eumdem intonuit, ut relicta consueta interpositione organi, cum magno
concursu populi, naturalem sequentis harmoniam, deinceps vivis vocibus caneretur,
primusque omnium antiquam consuetudinem chori virilis et organi aboleri coegit.
Nam cum Mastini de la Scala tyranni atria quaestus gratia frequentaret, et cum
Bononiensi artis Musicae peritissimo, de artis excellentia, tyranno eos irritante
iGandolfi, Una riparazione a proposito di Francesco Landing.
301
502
TEE VvORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI
muneribus, contenderet, mandrialia, sonosque multos intonuit, mirae dulcedinis et

artificiosissimae melodiae, in quibus magne quam suavis fuerit in arte doctrinae
manifestavit.
Sed hos reliquosque omnes, quos laudabilis tulit antiquitas, vivus adhuc
Franciscus excedit, de quo non sine affectatae fabulae timore scribere ausim.
Hunc vix tempus medium infantiae egressum, sors iniqua varioli morbo
coecavit, hunc eumdem ars Musices famae luminibus reformavit. Severior illi
occasio corporalia abstulit lumina, sed interioris hominis oculos speculatio
lyncea fecit. Argumentum sane, si verum amemus, quo illos verberibus adigamus,
qui plenis censibus miserrimo torpescunt otio, quibus abuti honestius putarem,
quam illos sinere sub ignava desidia obdormire.
Hie natus est Florentiae, patre Iacobo pictore, vitae simplicissimae,
rectoque viro, etcui scelera displicerent. Postquam tamen infantiam luminibus
orbate am excesserat, caecitatis miseriam intelligens, ut perpetuae noctis horrorem in aliquo levamine solaretur, Caeli, ut puto, benignitate, quae tantae infelicitati compatiens solatia praeparavit, decantare pueriliter coepit. Factus
deinde maiusculus, quum melodiae dulcedinem intellexisset, arte primo vivis vocibus, deinde fidibus canere coepit et organo, cumque in arte mire profecerit,
omnium stupore musicae artis instrumenta, quae nunquam viderat, tractabat, prompte,
ac si oculis frueretur, manuque adeo velocissima, quae tamen mensurate tempora
observaret, organa tangere coepit, arte tanta tantaque dulcedine, ut incomparabiliter organistas omnes, quorum memoria haberi posset, sine dubio superaret. Et
quod referri sine commento fictionis fere non potest.
Musicum instrumentum organum tantis compositum fistulis, tantis interius
contextum artificiis, tamque dissimilibus proportionatum servitiis, expositis
tenuissimis cannulis, quae facile etiam contactu perminimo laeduntur; et exenteratis visceribus instrumenti, quorum stilus si locis dimovetur suis per linear
spatium, corrumpitur, et intromissum follibus spiritum stridulis compellit vocibus dissonare; omnibus remotis quae ad compagem eius et ordinem pertinerent,
temperatum et consonantiis modulantium restituat in integrum, emendatis quae dissonantiam obstrepebant.
Et quod est amplius; lyra, limbuta, quintaria, rebeba, avena, tibiisque
et omni musicorum genere canit egregie, et quae reddunt sonitum concinnum per
varias symphonias ore aemulans, humanoque commiscens concentui, tertiam quamdam
ex utroque commixtam tono musicae speciem adinvenit iucunditatis ingenuae.
Insuper genus quoddam instrumenti ex limbuto medioque canone compositum
excogitavit, quod appellavit Serenam Serenarum, instrumentum sane quod reddat
verberatis fidibus suavissimam melodiam.
Referre quanta et quam pulcra fuerit in arte molitus supervacaneum puto,
cum hu iuscemodi virorum ephemeridas dicentes obnubilare soleant gratiam brevitatis. Scire tamen operae pretium est neminem organo unquam excellentius
cecinisse: ex quo factum est Musicorum consensu omnium eidem artis palmam concedentium, ut Venetiis ab illustrissimo ac nobilissimo Cyprorum Rege publice, ut
poetis et Caesaribus mos est, laurea donaretur.
DOCUMENTS
303
Praeter haec ad laudis eius cumulum accedat, quod grammaticam atque

dialecticam plene didicerit, artemque poeticam metro fictionibusque tractaverit.
VVLGARI BUSQVE RHYTHMIS egregia MVLTA dictaverit: in contumeliam, ut ita
dixerim, Florentinae inventutis effeminatae, quae muliebri studens ornamento,
turpi mollitie, virili animo deposito, fatigatur.
IV
A eulogy by Christoforo Landino, grand nephew of Francesco: z
Sed nee tu fueras una contentus in arte
Cum posses veterum dogmata nosse patrum,
Nam solers rerum causas, penitusque repostae
Naturae occultas tendis inire vias;
Et quod terrenis oculis vidisse negatum est,
Cernere mente parens Calliopea dedit.
A letter from Archiv. centr. di Firenze: Signori, Carteggio, Missive,

Registri. 1 Cancellaria, filza 16.3
Episcopo Florentino
Reverende in Christo pater. Specular! pulcerrimum est ingentia Dei dona,
quae humano generi immensa sua bonitate concessit, quibusque fuerunt mortales
ornati participesque divinae beatitudinis sunt effecti
Ea propter, ut aliquando concludamus, sentientes de hospitali Sancti
Iohannis, quod Sanctae Reparatae vulgariter reputatur, de quo fuerat cuidam
vestro familiar! provisum, controversiam nuperrime suscitatam, ut dicatur ad
comune Florentiae pertinere, nos, Franciscum Iacobi musicum et organistam honorare suarum virtutum meritis cupientes, cujus in hac quam longa oratione commendavimus, facultate, non quasi caecus, sed plus quam Argus oculatus emicuit, ex
quo et urbi nostrae gloriosum nomen et ecclesiae Florentinae ab isto caeco lumen
accedit, Paternitatem vestram affectuosissime deprecamur, quatenus ad tolendum
omnem litigium, de eo sibi praemissis opportunis, canonice dignemini providere:
ut qui in ecclesia Dei, ornatus moribus et decoratus tantae professionis splendore, laudabiliter est versatus, possit suppetentibus necessariis ad divini
cultus ampliationem quod sibi superest vitae ferventius dedicare.
D a t u m Florentiae X septembris XIII Ind. [1575]
Wesselofsky, II Paradiso, I, 104.

Ibld., App. 10.
504
VI
A eulogy from Cino Rinuccini, written shortly after the death of
Francesco:4
E accloche nelle arti liberall niuno savio ci manchi, avemo in musica
Francesco, cieco del corpo, ma dell 1 anima illuminato, il quale cosi la teorica
come la practica di quell' arte sapea, e nul sul tempo fu migliore modulatore di
dolcissimi canti, d'ogni strumento sonatore, e Massimamente d'organi, co1 quali
con piacevole dolcezza ricreava i stanchi.
VII
A eulogy from Guido del Palagio, a poet contemporaneous with Francesco:5
Fioriva in quel tempo Francesco degli Organi, musico teorico e practico
(mirabil cosa a ridirel) il quale cieco quasi a nativita, si mostro di tanto
intelletto divino, che in ogni parte piu astratta mostrava le sottilissime
proporzioni de' suoi musicabili numeri, e quelle con tanta dolcezza col suo organo praticava, che (cosa non credibile pure a udirla!) non ostante questo, egli,
con ogni artista e filosofo disputava, non tanto nella sua musica, ma in tutte
le arti liberali, perche di tutte quelle in buona parte erudito si era.
VIII
A letter in verse from France Sacchetti, inviting Francesco to some proposed festivities:6
Veggendo tante piaghe e tanti segni,
Francesco, io temo che nel ciel sovrano
Non abbia preso gia la tromba in mano
Que' che voira che ciascun si rassegni;
E temo ch' al gridar: Venite, a' degni,
II numero non si ritrovi vano,
Perche lo 'ngrato popoi cristiano
Segue pur mal con forze e con ingegni.
Abbiam fame e discordia, morte e guerra,
Chi vacilla e chi fugge, e non sa dove,
Ma da sue' vizi nessun si disserra.
Dunque col dolce suon che da te piove,
Anzi che quell' orribil giunga in terra,
Priego ch' adorni le parole nove.
Wesselofsky, II Paradiso, I, 251.

Trucchi, Poesie Inedit., II, 152.
6
Wesselofsky, II Paradiso, I, App. 9.
5
DOCUMENTS
Francesco's reply:
Se per segno mirar che dal ciel vegni
Dover tosto finire il monte e'l piano
Pensar si puo, temp' e che noi veggiano
Di cio dimostrazione, e tu l'assegni:
Discordia, fame, e regni contra regni,
Aer disposto a dar morte all' uom sano,
C'hanno a significar fine mondano;
Di che possibil e quel che disegni.
Ma se'l mimer de' buoni andra. si a terra,
Come tu temi, a me lagrime piove,
E'l visio n' e cagion che'l mondo affera.
Vestita la canzon, che'l cor commove,
Rimando a te, si ch'omai per la terra
Cantando potra gire qul e altrove.
305
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS.
G. Adler, Handbuch der Musikgeschichte (Berlin: Mlmersdorf, 1930), I.

C. Burney, General History of Music (London: Robinson, 1782), II.
F. Fetis, Histoire generale de la musique (Paris: Didot, 1869-1876), V.
H. Riemann, Handbuch der Musikgeschichte (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 19011913), I,2j II,1; 11,2.
, Musik Lexikon (llth ed., Berlin: Hesse, 1929).
C. Sachs, Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1920).
H. Wooldridge, Oxford History of Music (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1929,
1932), I, II.
II. ITALIAN LITERATURE

L. Biadene, in Rassegna bibliografica della letteratura itallana, VI (1898), 329.
A. Capelli, Poesle musicall dei secoli XIV, XV, e XVI (Bologna: Romagnoli, 1868).
G* Carducci, Cacce in rlma dei secoli XIV e XV (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1896).
, Cantilene e ballate, strambotti e madrlgali nel secoli XIII e XIV
(Pisa: Nistri, 1871).
, Qpere, VIII: Musica e poesia nel mondo elegante itallano del secolo
XIV (Bologna: Zanichelli, 1893).
, Le Rime dl Clno et d'altri del secolo XIV (Florence: Barbera, 1862).
E. li Gotti e N. Pirrotta, II Sacchetti e la tecnica muslcale del trecento
ltaliano (Florence: Sansoni, 1935).
E. Levi, Lirlca antica, novissima scelta di rime dei secoli XIII, XIV, XV
(Florence: Bemporad, 1908).
F. Truechi, Poesie italiane inedite di dugento autorl dall' origine della lingua
infino al- secolo" XVII (Prator Guasl, 1846), II, Poeti trecentisti.
307
308
III. WORKS ON THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY

H. Besseler, Muslk des Mlttelalters und der Renaissance (Potsdam: Akad. Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1931).
, 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters,1 Archiv fQr Musikwissenschaft,
VII (1925), 167, 252.
A. Bonaventura, 'II Boccaccio e la musica,' Rivista Musicale Italiana, XXI (1914),
405.
C. Van den Borreh, Les debuts de la musique a Venise (Brussels; Lombaer.t, 1914).
L. Ellinwood, 'Francesco Landini and His Music,' Musical Quarterly, XXII (1936),
190.
; 'Origins of the Italian Ars Nova, '. Papers read by members of trie
American Muaicological Society, Dec. 29 and 30, 1957.
F. Feti.s, 'Decouverte de MS. interessans pour l'histoire de la musique,1 La
Revue Musicale, I (1827), 111.
R. Gandolfi, Una riparazione a proposito di Francesco Landini (Florence: Cellini,
T. Gerold, La musique au moyen age (Paris: Champion, 1932).

t
Les instruments de musique au moyen age,' Revue des Cours et

Conferences (1928), 614.
0. von Gerstfeldt, 'Francesco Landini degli Organi,' Deutsche Rundschau, CXXIII

(1905), 444.
H. Gutman, 'Der Deearnerone des Boccaccio als musikgeschichtliche Quelle,'
Zeitschrift fur Musikwissenschaft, XI (1929), 397.
F. Ludwig, 'Die mehrstimmige Musik des XIV Jahrhunderts,' Sammelbande der
Internationale Musikgesellschaft, IV (1903), 16.
, 'Die Quellen der Motetten altesten Stils,' Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft, V (1923).
1
'Musik des Mittelalters in der Badischen Kunsthalle Karlsruhe,' Zeitschrift fur Musikwissenschaft, V (1923), 434.
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine' Painting (New York

University, 1930), Section lf.1, Vol. II, Pt. II.
H. Riemann, 'Das Kunstlied im 14-15 Jahrhundert,' Sammelbande der Internationale
Musikgesellschaft, VII (1906), 529.
J. B. Rietstrap, Armorial General (2nd ed., Gouda. 1887), II.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
309
J. B. Rietstrap, Planches de l'Armorial General (Paris: 1912), IV.

A. Schering, 'Das kolorlerte Orgelmadrigal des Trecento,' Sammelbande der
Internationale Muslkgesellschaft, XIII (1912), 172.
, Studlen zur Musikgeschichte der Fruhrenalssance (Leipzig:
Breitkopf & HSrtel, 1914).
M. Schneider, Die Ars Nova des XIV Jahrhtmderts in Frankreich und Italien (Potsdam: ~ ^ y T ^ b y r ~ l r ~ 7 ]
J. Wolf, 'Florenz in der Musikgeschichte des XIV Jahrhunderts,' Sammelbande der
Internationale Musikgesellschaft, III (1902), 599.
, Geschichte der Mensuralnotation von 1250-1460 (Leipzig: Breitkopf &
Hartel, 1904).
, Handbuch der Notationskunde (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1919), II.
, 'Italian Trecento Music,' Proceedings of the Musical Association (1932).
, 'Die Tanze des Mittelalters,' Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft, I (1918).
IV. EDITIONS AND REPRODUCTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY MATERIAL
Antonio da Tempo, Trattato delle rime volgari (G. Grion, ed.; Bologna: Romagondi,
1869).
P. Aubry, Cent motets du X H I e sieele (Paris: Lerolle, 1908).
E. de Coussemaker, L'art harmonique aux Xlle et X H I e siecles (Paris: Durand,
1865).
ed., Scriptores de Musica Medii Aevi (Paris: Durand, 1864-76) :
Anonymous III, I, 325; Anonymous V, Ars cantus mensurabilis, III, 379;
Prosdocimus de Beldemandis, De Contrapuncto, III, 195; Prosdocimus de
Beldemandis, Tractatus practice de musica mensurabili ad modum
Italicorum,7 III, 228.
S. Debenedetti, 'II Saporetti di S. Prudenzani,1 Giornale Storica della Letteratura Italiana, Suppl. 15 (1913).
A. Einstein, Beispielsammlung zur Musikgeschichte (4th ed., Leipzig: Teubner,
1930).
R. Gandolfi, Illustrazioni di alcuni cimeli concernenti l'arte musicale in
Firenze (Florence: 1892).
Gidino da Sommacampagna, Trattato de li rithimi volgari (G. B. Giuliari, ed.;
Bologna: Romagnoli; 1870).
7
Newly edited by Cl. Sartori (Florence: Olschki, 1938).
S10
THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDIN1
F. Ludwig, ed., Guillaume de Machault Werke, Pub'lieationen Alterer Muslk des

Deutsche Muslkgesellschaft (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1926 ff.), I,
H. Riemann, Musikgeschlchte in Beispielen (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1925).

Y. Rokseth, Polyphonies du Xllle slecle (Paris: L'Oiseau lyre, 1935 ff.).
Cl. SartorJL, La notazione itallana del trecento in una redazione inedita del
,'Tractatus Practice Cantus Mensurabilis ad Modum Ytalicorum dl
Prosdocimus de Beldemandls (Florence: Olschki, 1938).
A. Schering, Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel,
1931).
Sercambi, Novelli (projected ed, by R. Pratt).
G. Villani, Liber de civitatis Florentiae famosis civibus (Galletti, ed.;
Florence: Mazzoni, 1847).
A. Wesselofsky, ed. II Paradiso degli Alberti ritrovi e ragionamentl del 1389
romanzo di Giovanni da Prato (Bologna: Romagnoli, 1867).
J. Wolf, 'Johannes de Grocheo Theoria,1 Sammelb'ande der Internationale Musikgesellschaft, I (1900).
-, Sing- und Spielmusik (Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1926).
In addition to those cited above, the following recent works are signifi
cant:
Willi Apel, The notation of polyphonic music, 900-1600 (Cambridge, Mass., The
Mediaeval Academy of America, 1942).
E. Li Gotti, La poesia musicale italiana del sec. XIV (Palermo, G. B. Palumbo,
1944).
, 'Poesie musicali italiane del sec. XIV, Atti della R. accademia di
scienze lettere e arti di Palermo, Serie IV, vol. IV, parte II (1944).
F. Liuzzl, 'Musica e poesie del trecento,' Rendiconti della pont. ace. Rom, di
arch., XIII (1957), 59-71.
Gustave Reese, Music in the middle ages (New York, V.W. Norton, 1940).
CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE OF FRANCESCO'S WORKS
Music
Verses
og
1 Beginning of text
o c Q
H
I
+> ta
P.
Manuscript sources
S.
14 2 B Abbonda di virtu
F. B.
n.
P.
Transcription
previously
published
Author
Text
previously
published
F.Sacchetti
Carducol,
Cant., p.250
Trucchi,
II, 155
156r
101 3 B Adiu,adlu dous dame 164v
30r
62r
15 2 B Allexandra.lo spirt 135r 37v

16 2 B Altera luce
17 2 B Altri n'ara
156v
157r
140r
18 2 B Ama donna chl tt* 164v
8v
102 3 B Amar si li alti
156v 63r
103 3 B Amor c f al tuo
140v
19 2 B Amor con fede
130r
104 3 B Amor in te spera'
150 2 F Ara' tu pieta
123v
135v
151 2 F Benche la bionda
152v
106 3 B Cara mie donna,
114V
115r
113r
108v
109r
64r
Schering,
Bel spielen
140r
21 2 B Benche crudele
22 2 B Benche ora piova,
F.Landlni
29v
105 3 B Amor inn uom gentil I52r 34r

20 2 B Angelica bilta
26v
Capelli,
Poesie mus.p3
158v
Kiolf,
Gesch.Notation
161r
107 3 B Caro signor.palesa 163v 25v

163r 36v
37r
fa 1 ? che penal? 157v
L58r
pena e quest' 130v 36v
37 r
126r
piU le vuol
166v
157r llv
pregio vuol,
63v
64r
108 3 B Che cos' e quest'

23 2 B Che
109 3 B Che
24 2 B Chi
25 2 B Chi
104r
lOOv
lOlr
51r 69v
1. 1i - 3allata, F - Franmenlbo, M - Madrigal, P - Pescha.

2. This appears in two parts in Parlfs, B.N., Mouv. acq. 4917.
311
Trucchi,
II, 161
THE WORKS OP FRANCESCO LANDIMI
312
u
e
t,*
Beginning of text
5.
F. B,. R. P.
Trtinscription
published
to
S,
11
iFenor)
Ciascun vuole
121v 89T lOv
26 2 B Com* el seguir
90r llr
153* 48v
49r
27 2 B Coell ochi aseai
1 5 7 T 49T
Adler,
Handbuch. I
Author
Text
published
F.Landirii
Carducci,
Opere.VIII.320
99r
EOr
110 3 B Contenpier le gren
111
112
j
K
B Conviens'a fade fe 152v

B Cosa nulla p i )
13 3 P Cosl pensoso
79r
15Sr
32T
153r
132r 35v
113v
114r
71r 107v
103r
87v
88r
123v 45v 397
46r 40r
28 B D'aaor rai biasuo,
145v
29 2 B Da pol che va mia
153v
30 2 B Da poi che vedi
150r
ELlinwood,
Mus.Quart .XXII
3v
G.Sacchettl Carducci,
Cacole, p.41
94v
95r
31 2 B Deppo c'a tte rin- 151r

113 3 B Debba l'anim'alt32 2 B De* ! che mi giova
10 3 M De't dinini tu che
33 2 B D e 1 : non fuglr
145v
I46r
149r
125v
126r
144v 32r
34 2 B De*t pon*quest*amor 144r
50v
ELlinvood,
Mus.Quart.XXII
ELllnKOod,
f31r
Mus.Quart.Xni
2r
F.Landinl
Trucchi,II,153
Carducci,
Cant.. p.318
35 2 B De'! sospirar sov- 149v

36 2 B De* t Tolgl gli ochi 146r 12r
114 3 B Djvennon gli ochi
39v
79v
37 2 B Dolcie signiore,
39 2 B Donna, che d'amor
36v 104v
150T
105r
39 2 B Donna con vo'ritnane 144r

115 3 B Donna, t'prego amor 145r 33r 53v
10lT
102r
13v
40 2 B Donna, la mente nia

41 2 B Donna, la raia part- 151r
42 2 B Donna, languir ni
149r
43 2 B Donna, l'animo tuo 151v

116 3 B Donna,*1 tuo part-
149T
2v
3r
5v
6r
Carducci,
Cant., p..119
52v
53r
1. Also l i Padua, Biblioteca Univer3itarla, MS.1475.
nber

01
Beginning of text
t(0
S.
F.
152 2 F Donna perche ml
144v
117 3 B Donna per farmi
146v 36r
44 2 B Donna, s e ' l cor
153v
45 2 B Donna, si t ' o f a l l - 153r
47 2 B Duolsi la vita
146v
147r
145r
48 2 B Echo la prlmavera
135r
46 2 B Donna, tu prendi
ua
3 B EL gram dlslo
B.
R.
P.
7v
l r 24r 34r
Author
Text
published.
F.Landir.1
T/ucchl,II,156
85v
86r
84v
85r
147 r 31r 74v

75r
119 3 B SI rale dolce sospir 147v 24v

1 2 H Fa metter bando
Transcription
published
Wolf.Sim?- und
Spieimuslk
148r
123r 41v
Carducci,
0pere.TIII.S81
42r
49 2 B Fatta a ' a serv'
148v
50 2 3 Fjor dl dolce;a
148r
51 2 B Fortuna r l a ,
147v lOr
120 3 B Gentll aspetto,
133r 27v
52v
121 3 B Gja non blaslm'
66v Besseler,
67r Mus.d.M.fc R.
F.Landinl
Carducci,
Cent., p.317
Adler,
Handbuch, I .
F.Landinl
Carducci,
Opere.Till.320
160r
53 2 B Gja ebbl l l b e r t a t e
11 Joiitra) GJa furon l e
Truccb.1,11,166
86v
28r
52 2 B Gja d'amore
46r
122r 90r l l r
169v 39r
117v
118r
54 2 B Gja perch'l'penso
153r l v 59v 48v
55 2 B Gjovine donna
160v
5G 2 B GJovine vagha,
160r
68v
69r
122 3 B Giunta e vaga belta l60v 25r

57 2 B Gil ochi che In pr- 149v
123 3 B Gram plant* agll

124 3 B
53 2 B
59 2 B
S13
7r
133v 26r 29v 34v
30r
161v 21r 24v
Guard* una volta,
25r
165v 53v
I* fu tuo serv*,
54r
141v 46v
11 suo bel vlso
47r
41v
I'non ardlscho mos42r
60
61
>
B In sornm* alteca
169v
62
>
B I'piango, lassoJ
136r
68v
69r
67v Ludwig,
63r
L13v
H4r
35v
36r
1. Also In Padua, Biblloteca UnlverBltarla, TA5.684.
F.Landinl
Capelli,
Poesle Mus.p.29
Trucchl.11,157
Lev!, p.142
Number
314
125
1gc
Beginning of text
S.
?. B. R. P.
0
1,
1
B I'
prlego amor
Transcription
published
Author
Text
published
47v
48r
162r
63 2 B I'vegio ch'a nnat- 136v

64 2 B La bonda tre;pa
126 3 B La dolce vista
65 2
B L'alma
legladra
127 3 B L'alraa mle piange
66 2 B La mala lingua,
126v
127r
150r
6r
155v
I56r
131r
13r
80r 47v lOOr
31v 75v
32r 76r
Trucchi,II,16l
65v
66r
107r
140V
128 3 B La mente mi ripren- 150v 26v
67 2 B L'antlca fiamma
68 2
129
130 3
B L'aspecto
Carducci,
Cant., p.155
27r
155v 4r
qul
151v
B Lasso!
di donna
132v
B Lasso!
per mle
131v
28v
92v
93r
48v
49r
69 2 B L'onesta tuo bilta, 155r

2 2
70 2
Lucea nel prato
B Ma'
non s'andra'
80v
81r
127r
I41r 66v
109v Wolf.Gesch.Not.
llOr Rlemann.Peach.
67r
3 2
a llostron oi
amor
131 3 B Muort* oraaa
13v
I4r
124v
132 3 B Nella mie vita
129v
130r
121v 89v
122r 90r
168v 23v
71 2 B Nella partita
I39r 56r
72 2 B Nella piu cara
169r
73 2 B Nella tuo luce
134v
11 3 u Muslca son che mi
Trucchi.11,165
127v
128r
lOv
llr
Adler,
Randbuch.I
F.Landini
Carducci,
Opere.VIII.320
114v
H5r
133 3 B Ne *n ciascun
28v
139v 38v
115v
116r
116v
117r
134 3 B Nessun ponga sper- 162v 40r 76v
77r
74 2 B Nessura provo glam- 159r
4 2 M Non a Nnarcisso
llv
125r 46v
135 3
Jonn ar& ma'pi eta
47r
12r
134r 30v 23v 52r 61v Fetis. Hlstoire Bindo d'Al- Carducci,
75 2
Ion creder, donna,
136v
24r
136 3
B Non
do la colp'a
76 > B Non per fallir
134v 24r
168r
62r ai al.
4v
5r
2v
4v
37r
95v
96r
eeso Donati Cant.,p.3O9

F.Secchettl Carducci.Cant.
" Rime d.Clno

u
JO
to
Beginning of text
S.
F.
R. P.
Transcription
putlished
77 2 B Oehi
137 3
dolenti-
B Ognor mi trovo
5 2
M 0 pianta vagha
79 2
133 3
80 2
139 3
81 2
140 3
86v
87r
el core
F.Landini
Carducci,Cant.,
Trucchi, II, 154
136r
128r 43T
44r
141r 7v
Or'e ttal l'alma
8r
Orau, gentili spir- 142r
B Oymet
Text
published
135T
B 0 fanciulla giulia 159v 34v
78 2
Author
315
Levi, p.233
108v
KLlinwood,
Mu8.Quart.XQI
141T
T.Landini
Carducci.Cant.,
Levi, p.225
103r
B Partesi eon dolore 154v
B Per
allegreca
B Perche dl novo
27T 30v
28r 31r
159r 5T 7r
164r 30r 25v
64v
65r
140 (Tenor) Per che tuo ser 164r 30r 25v
Trucchi, II, 163
64T
65r
42v
43r
82 2 B Per che virtu fa

83 2
141 3
6 2
142 3
B Per la belleca
165r
B Per la mie dolce
143r
M Per l'anfluenca
126v
Ootti,
11 Sacchetti
Wolf.Oeach.Wot.
Rleaann.Gesch.
50v
51r
B Per eeguir la sper- 166r 2lT
84 2
B Per servar umllta
168v
85 2
B Per un amante rio
166T
86 2
B Piu bella donna
87 2
B Po c'aaor ne'belgli 168r
J.Sacchetti
48r
62v Ellinwood,
63r
88v
89r
3r
F.Landini
Trucchi, II, 156
MUB.Quart .XXII
32T
9T
153 2
7 Po che di simil
138v
143 3
B Po che partir
165v 23r
92T
93r
88 2
B Poyche da tte
142v
5r 37r 9v
lOr
144 3
B Posto che dall'aep- 154r 35r
145 3
B Quanto pii caro
146 3
B Quel sol che raca
143v 26T 49T 50r

27r 50r
138v 22r
147 3
B Questa fanctull*,
138r 22v
B S'andra sanca
167r 14r
89 2
88v
89r
90v
91r
99T
70T
7T
8r
90 2
B Se la nimica
167v
3. Also in Padua, Biblioteca UniTersitaria, US.684. and in Prague, University Library, XI.E.9.
[Parts 1
[Form 1
Number
316

Beginning of text
S.
F. B. R. P. Transcription
published
Author
Text
published
91 2 B Se lla vista soave 137v

143
B Selvagia fera,
104v
105r
137r
20r
92 2 B Se raer9e donna
154 2 F Senpre giro caendo 170v

93 2 B Se pronto non sara
170r 12v 28r
12 3 M Si dolce non sono
123v 44v
124r 45r
170v 6 T
94 2 B Sie maladetta
CM
149 3 B SfJ'fossi certo

2
B Sf j'ti son
95
139r
M Tu, che ll'oper'

M Unna conlonba
B Vaga fanciulla
CM
93
B Tante bellece
CM
97
127v
CM
M Somraa fellcita,
CM
8r
CM
96
142v
CM
138r 29r
91v Coussemaker in
92r Cepelli.Poesle
Rlenann,Belspiel en
12v ELlinwood,
9v
13r Mus.Quart.XXII
lOr
28r 67v
68r
106v
B Va pure, araore,
122v 42v
43r
129r
llv
12r
165r lOv
llr
171r 9r
140 (Contra) Vendetta far
99 2 B Vidl ti, donna,

100 2 B VJta non e piu
48v
49r
Levi, p.295
89v
90r
F.Sacchetti Capelli,
Poeaie, p.32
Wolf,
S.I..M.G.,III
Eliinwood,
Mus-Quart.XXII
70r
164r 30r 25v

171r
167r lOv
Capelli,
Poeale. p.23
Levi, p.294
49r 103v
1. Also in Modena, Biblloteca Estense, L.568.

2. Also in Padua, Biblioteca Dniversitaria, MS.684.
Carducci,
0peretVIII,362

Landini Francesco

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Landini Francesco

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Landini Francesco

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

THE MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

The Miniature of Francesco Landini in the

THE MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA

The publication of this book was made possible by grants of

THE MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA

EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

The Works of Francesco Lanaini

I. Early Italian Polyphony

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LAMDINI

Cf. the quotation from Villani given in the Documents.

II. Francesco Landini

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

An account book of Andrea de1 Servi records a payment of nine 'solidos'

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

Gerstfeldt, 'Francesco Landini,1 Deutsche Rundschau, CXXIII, 444 ff.

III. Manuscript Sources

Una riparazione a proposito di Francesco Landlni.

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LAMD1NI

set forth, although with a considerable number of brief omissions disconcerting

Many times J^J J

In several of the madrigals the second section is separated from the

Cf. Plate IV.

LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM, ADD. MS. 29,987

This is one of two manu-

scripts where a composition of Francesco's appears with no text whatsoever,29

Cf. no. 57 below.

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

Cf. the section on notation, below.

IV. The Notation

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

modus longarum perfectus, indicating the change from a duple to a

triple division of the Long.

This later usage

, a popular rhythmic combination

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LAWDINI

and is used much

In other words ^ =<?in a aa-

One other n o t e , ^ , is occasionally found; this equals an augmented Semi-

breve in duple time, i.e., o- in 4/2 time.

An i n i t i a l note is a Breve if (l) there is a t a i l down on the left, or

V. The Musical Forms

Cf. p. xvi above.

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

Trattato delle rime volgari (c. 1352).

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDIMI

Oxford History of Music, II, 2, 325, (2nd edition).

of a perpetuum mobile. Twenty-three of these ballate have one or two additional

The position of the text of stanza three is variable. Sometimes it is

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

VI. The Musical Style

a triple-simple metre, corresponding to the French perfect mode, time

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

Hocket is frequently used with moderation in these same places:

Coussemaker, Scriptores, I, 325 ff.

Coussemaker, Scriptores, III, 195.

THE WORKS OF FRANCESCO LANDINI

is a smooth progression back to consonance, as in the following instance: