Baude Cordier
Other names: Cordier, Baude (Grove, MGG), Baude Fresnel,
`Tout par compas' tells us Cordier was born in Rheims. Most likely to be identified with Baude Fresnel, harpist and organist at the Burgundian court (Wright). Lindley: he may also be `Baudecet' (i.e Baude `of the cetra') in Arnaut of Zwolle's treatise.
Works (11)
- Amans ames secretement rondeau
- Belle bonne sage rondeau
- Ce jour de l'an que maint doist estrenier rondeau
- Dame excellent ou sont bonte ballade
- Gloria
- Je suy celuy qui veul toudis servir rondeau
- Pour le deffault du noble dieu bachus rondeau
- Que vaut avoir qui ne vit liement rondeau
- Se cuer d'amant par soy humilier rondeau
- Tant ay de plaisir et de desplaisance rondeau
- Tout par compas rondeau
Literature
Baude Cordier
LIFE
- BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Cordier, Baude', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, II (1952): 1665-1668 .
- REANEY, Gilbert. 'Cordier, Baude', The New Grove, IV (1980): 767-768.
EDITIONS
- RIEMANN, Hugo. Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, 5 vols, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904-1913 .
- Le manuscrit de musique polyphonique du trésor d'Apt, edited by Amédée Gastoué, Paris: E. Droz, 1936. La société française de musicologie, series 1, Vol. X.
- Early Fifteenth Century Music, edited by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1955. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 11/I.
- Medieval Music, edited by W. Thomas Marrocco and Nicholas Sandon, London: Oxford University Press, 1977 .
- French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564, First Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1981. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XVIII.
- French Sacred Music, edited by Giulio Cattin and Francesco Facchin, Monaco: Editions de l'Oiseau Lyre, 1992: Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century Vol. XXIIIIA.
STUDIES OF WORKS
- APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942 , pp. 425-426, & example 62( Amans ames secretement) .
- REANEY, Gilbert. 'The Middle Ages', [in] A History of Song, edited by Denis Stevens, 2nd edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1970, pp. 15-64, p. 52( Belle bonne sage).
- WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174( Belle bonne sage).
- REANEY, Gilbert. 'A consideration of the relative importance of words and music in composition from the 13th to the 15th century', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 175-196, p. 190( Tout par compas).
- KOEHLER, Laurie. Review of Gordon K. Greene (ed.): Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vols. XVIII-XX, Journal of the American Musicological Society, XXXIX/3 (1986): 633-641, p. 637( Tout par compas).
OTHER LITERATURE
- APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942 , pp. 425-426, & example 62.
- Early Fifteenth Century Music, edited by Gilbert Reaney, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1955. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 11/I.
- REANEY, Gilbert. 'The Middle Ages', [in] A History of Song, edited by Denis Stevens, 2nd edition, New York: W. W. Norton, 1970, pp. 15-64, p. 52.
- MEYLAN, Raymond. 'Réparation de la Roue de Cordier', Musica Discplina, XXVI (1972): 69-71 .
- REANEY, Gilbert. 'Cordier, Baude', The New Grove, IV (1980): 767-768.
- French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564, First Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1981. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XVIII.
- WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.
- REANEY, Gilbert. 'A consideration of the relative importance of words and music in composition from the 13th to the 15th century', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 175-196, p. 190.
- KOEHLER, Laurie. Review of Gordon K. Greene (ed.): Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vols. XVIII-XX, Journal of the American Musicological Society, XXXIX/3 (1986): 633-641, p. 637.
Recordings
Recordings of works by Baude Cordier
- Dictionnaire des Instruments Anciens: Harmonia Mundi HMU (3) 445: Tout par compas; .
- Ballades, Rondeaux & Virelais from the 14th and 15th Centuries: Odyssey 32 16 0178 (1967): Tout par compas; .
- Cinq Siècles de Musique dans la Cathédrale de Reims: Erato LDE 3377/ STE 50277/STU 70277 (1968): Gloria; .
- Historical Anthology of Music in Performance. Vol. 1: Late Medieval Mu: Pleiades P 250 (1968): Belle bonne sage; Amans ames secretement; .
- Codex Chantilly: airs de cour: HMC 901252 (1987): Belle bonne sage; Tout par compas; .
- The Chantilly Codex: Harmonia Mundi HMC 1252 (1987): Belle bonne sage; Tout par compas; .
- Ars Magis Subtiliter: New Albion Records NA 021 CD (1989): Belle bonne sage; Tout par compas; .
- Lancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420: Hyperion CDA66588 (1992): Ce jour de l'an que maint doist estrenier; .