The Loire Valley Chansonniers in debate

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]

[Christoffersen 2013]

[Fallows 1999]

[Fallows 2021-01]

[Higgins 1987]

[O'Sullivan 2024]

Collaborators

Belliot Hyacinthe
Besson Vincent
Canguilhem Philippe
Fiala David