Odh

De tous biens plaine R4:8 (abba)

Language: 

fr

Composer: 

Hayne van Ghizeghem

Lauda: 

Di tutto ben se’ fonte eterno Iddio
5:7/11 (ABAbX)

Notes: 

note: FallowsCat, 129-30; CattinCI, 424-5. Gall4 incipit = ‘Di tuo ben pleni’. Music ed. ThibaultM, 38 (Cord); PopeM, 320 (MC); PerkinsM, ii, no. 32 (Mel); HewittO, 263 (Odh, w/added CtA); JeppesenK, 7 (Cop); and others (see FallowsCat). For lists of later pieces based on Hayne’s song, see CMM74, xxxix-xli; ThibaultM, xcix, & MeconiA, 27. For a recent edition of 28 settings of ‘De tous biens’, see CyrusD.

Cantasi Come Sources: 

Nunca fue pena mayor Cancion 4:8 (abab cdcd abab)

Poet: 

Don Garcia Alvarez, Duke of Alba

Language: 

sp

Composer: 

Johannes
Wreede?

Lauda: 

Non fu mai pena maggiore
6:8 (abbaac cddcce ...)

Lauda Poet: 

Francesco d’Albizo

Notes: 

note: FallowsCat, 624-5; CattinCI, 431-2 (with comparison of Spanish & Italian texts); RubsamenLS, 16-17. Survives in four different versions and lute tablature (c. 19 extant sources); the most popular of all 15thc. songs. Music ed. in StevensonC, 228 (CMC); IMM/iv, 28 (Pix); HewittO, 226 (Odh version w/added voice); ed. & discussed in PerkinsMAR, 492-4 (see FallowsCat, 624 for further editions). Music adapted by Tromboncino as a macaronic barzelletta (‘Nunqua[m] fu pena maggiore’; in PetF/iii & Bas2441, ed. CesariLF, 136), and T & D voices cited in a number of other compositions. Cited in Italian (esp. Florentine) sources with Latin version of incipit, ‘Nunquam fuit pena (poena) maior’. In LA424, lauda sent to ‘Francesco miniatore’; cc. = ‘Nunquam fu pena maior’.