Webportal for the interdisciplinary investigation of the six central chansonniers of the French court songs repertoire of the second half of the 15th c. This portal offers a unified access to all Ricercar•Data•Lab's material connected to the corpus, primarily focusing on collecting new information on the individuals involved in the creation, production, and early transmission of these manuscripts.
The six central Chansonniers, c. 1465-1475
Cop – Chansonnier de Copenhague
Dij – Chansonnier de Dijon
Wolf – Chansonnier de Wolfenbüttel / Chansonnier d'Estienne II Petit
Lab – Chansonnier Laborde
Niv – Chansonnier Nivelle de La Chaussée
Leuv – Leuven Chansonnier / Chansonnier de Philippe de Savoie

To the five "central chansonniers" of the French courtly songs repertoire of the second half of the 15th c., known since the 19th c., once labelled "Burgundian" and then "from the Loire Valley", was added another one since the public discovery of the Leuven chansonnier in 2015. The question of their provenance and precise dating is still much discussed. A new complete analysis of their decoration from an art historical viewpoint is still needed. The only available discussion of this matter is still a ten-page section of Paula Higgins' 1987 dissertation which argues for the Loire Valley provenance and connects some features of Niv's decoration to Jean Fouquet (Higgins 1987, p. 285-296, 'The Art Historical Evidence').

Musicologists interested in contributing are invited to contact the responsible of the project, David Fiala.

External links

Appendices of Alden 2011 (Appendices of Alden 2011: separate PDF files (on DIAMM ressource webpage) with full codicological descriptions, tables of contents and introductions to the five central chansonniers prior to the Leuven chansonnier discovery)
DIAMM set of chansonniers records (The whole corpus in DIAMM — adding the Italian Berlin Chansonnier to the six central chansonniers)
P.W. Christoffersen Website (Peter Woetmann Christoffersen's open access website on the chansonniers, with tables, articles, links and musical editions, regularly and generously updated since 2013)

Bibliography

[Alden 2011]

Alden, J., 2011, Songs, Scribes, and Society: The History and Reception of the Loire Valley Chansonniers, Oxford, New York.

[Christoffersen 2013]

Christoffersen, P. W., 2013, The Copenhagen Chansonnier and the ‘Loire Valley’ chansonniers. An open access project. http://chansonniers.pwch.dk/ (consulté le 27 avril 2024).

[Fallows 1999]

Fallows, D., 1999, A catalogue of polyphonic songs, 1415-1480, Oxford ; New York http://www.sudoc.fr/048033650.

[Fallows 2021-01]

Fallows, D., 2021, The Chronology of the Central Chansonniers, Journal of the Alamire Foundation, 13, p. 53‑63 https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.JAF.5.124207 (consulté le 27 avril 2024).

[Higgins 1987]

Higgins, P. M., 1987, Antoine Busnois and musical culture in late fifteenth-century France and Burgundy, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à , 1987.

[Merkley, 2017]

Merkley, P. A., 2017, Music and Patronage in the Court of René d’Anjou: Sacred and Secular Music in the Literary Program and Ceremonial, Tempe, Arizona.

[O'Sullivan 2024]

O’Sullivan, R., 2024, The Leuven Chansonnier: Provenance, Transmission, and Authorships - KU Leuven, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à Leuven, 2024 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/4135154&lang=en (consulté le 9 juin 2024).

Contributors

Belliot Hyacinthe

Besson Vincent

Canguilhem Philippe

Fiala David

Mort j'appelle de ta rigueur Delahaye ; Jean de La Haye MEI

Catalogues: DIAMM ; JONAS-IRHT

N'aray je jamays mieulx Robert Morton MEI

Catalogues: DIAMM ; JONAS-IRHT

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Fiala David, The Loire Valley Chansonniers in debate (2024-...), in RicercarDataLab [http://preprod-ricercar.cesr.univ-tours.fr/projects/17/] (accessed 13 March 2025).