Solage
Three of the ten works by Solage in Ch suggest that he was close to the French royal family during the 1380s. `S'aincy estoit' is dedicted to Jean, Duke of Berry. Two further ballades probably allude to Catherine of France.
Works (11)
- Bien dire et sagement parler ballade
- Calextone, qui fut dame terrouse ballade
- Corps feminin par vertu de Nature ballade
- En l'amoureux vergier vis une flour ballade
- Fumeux fume par fumee rondeau
- Helas! je voy mon cuer a fin venir ballade
- Joieux de cuer en seumellant estoye virelai
- Le basile de sa propre nature ballade
- Pluseurs gens voy qui leur pensee ballade
- S'aincy estoit que ne feust la noblesce ballade
- Tres gentil cuer amoureux, attraians virelai
Literature
Solage
LIFE
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die Musiker des Herzogs von Berry', Musica Disciplina, XVII (1963): 79-95.
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Solage', The New Grove, XVII (1980): 448 .
EDITIONS
- French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950 .
- French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1971. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/II.
- Norton Anthology of Western Music. Vol. I. Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, edited by Claude V. Palisca, Yale University: W. W. Norton, 1980.
- French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564, Second Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1982. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XIX .
- LEFFERTS, Peter M. '"Subtilitas" in the tonal language of "Fumeux fume", Early Music, XVI/2 (1988): 176-183.
STUDIES OF WORKS
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Der Gebrauch des tempus perfectum diminutum in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960): 277-297, pp. 290-291( S'aincy estoit que ne feust la noblesce).
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Datierbare Balladen des späten 14. Jahrhunderts. Part 1', Musica Disciplina, XV (1961): 39-61 (pp. 58-61)( S'aincy estoit que ne feust la noblesce).
- HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley): 1970, p. 214( Bien dire et sagement parler).
- SWARTZ, Anne. 'A new chronology of the ballades of Machaut', Acta Musicologica, XLVI (1974): 192-207 (pp. 197, 203, 204)( En l'amoureux vergier vis une flour).
- WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I , p. 33( Fumeux fume par fumee) .
- 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( Fumeux fume par fumee) .
OTHER LITERATURE
- French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950 .
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, pp. 225, 245-249.
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die Anwendung der Diminution in der Handschrift Chantilly 1047', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XVII (1960): 1-21 (pp. 12-13, 15).
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Datierbare Balladen des spaten 14. Jahrhunderts. Part 2', Musica Disciplina, XVI (1962): 151-174.
- MARGGRAF, Wolfgang. 'Solage', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, XII (1965): 831 .
- HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley): 1970, p. 214.
- HIRSHBERG, Jehoash. The Music of the Late Fourteenth Century: A Study in Musical Style, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania: 1971.
- NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Solage', The New Grove, XVII (1980): 448 .
- 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.
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.
- GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Unusual phenomena in the transmission of late fourteenth-century polyphonic music', Musica Disciplina, XXXVIII (1984): 87-118, p. 103.
- LEFFERTS, Peter M. '"Subtilitas" in the tonal language of "Fumeux fume", Early Music, XVI/2 (1988): 176-183.
Recordings
Recordings of works by Solage
- French Chansons of the Fourteenth Century: Anthologie Sonore AS 110 (1953): En l'amoureux vergier vis une flour; .
- Music of Mediaeval France 1200 - 1400 [Songs of Birds, Battles and Lo: Bach Guild BG 70656 (mono BG 656) (1961): Helas! je voy mon cuer a fin venir; Pluseurs gens voy qui leur pensee; .
- The Ars Nova: Vocal Music of 14-Century France and Italy: Expèriences Anonymes EA/EAS 83 (1966): Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- Music from the Hundred Year War: Philips 6747 004 (set 5) (INT) (1969): S'aincy estoit que ne feust la noblesce; .
- Recordings to accompany A History of Western Music and Norton Antholog: CBS P8 15483 (1972): Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- The Late 14th Century Avant Garde: EMI/HMV ASD 3621 (GB) (1973): Helas! je voy mon cuer a fin venir; Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- Dufay and His Times: Telefunken ER 6.35 257(2) (GER) (1974): Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- Codex Chantilly: airs de cour: HMC 901252 (1987): Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- The Chantilly Codex: Harmonia Mundi HMC 1252 (1987): Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- Ars Magis Subtiliter: New Albion Records NA 021 CD (1989): Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- The Medieval Romantics: CDA66463 (1991): Joieux de cuer en seumellant estoye; .
- Febus Avant!: Sony Classical SK 48 195 (1991): Fumeux fume par fumee; .
- The study of love: (1992): Le basile de sa propre nature; .
- Lancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420: Hyperion CDA66588 (1992): Tres gentil cuer amoureux, attraians; .