Holger Petersen, Deux versions de la vie de saint Eustache en vers français du moyen âge, 1925

Wallensköld A. Holger Petersen, Deux versions de la vie de saint Eustache en vers français du moyen âge, 1925. In: Romania, tome 51 n°203, 1925. pp. 446-449

Holger Petersen, Deux versions de la vie de saint Eustache en vers français du moyen âge, 1925

Wallensköld A. Holger Petersen, Deux versions de la vie de saint Eustache en vers français du moyen âge, 1925. In: Romania, tome 51 n°203, 1925. pp. 446-449

The polyphonic rondeau c1300: repertory and context

Any explanation of the emerging polyphonic chanson in the years before 1330 must negotiate varied repertories and compositions. One of the central genres in such a study would be the polyphonic rondeau. It is characterised by a musico-poetic structure more or less analogous to the rondeau of the later fourteenth century, but also by three-part music – mostly syllabic, note-against-note – that is copied in score. Our view of these sorts of compositions is dominated by the works of Adam de la Halle, whose sixteen score-notated polyphonic settings of vernacular lyrics are preserved in a manuscript now in the Bibliothèque Nationale (F-Pn), MS fr. 2556