a| 9789059089051

a| (DE-599)BSZ49426229X

a| eng a| dut

a| Burn, David J. d| -1974 4| aut 9| 10017

a| Leuven Chansonnier: b| Study/studie

a| Antwerpen b| Davidsfonds b| Alamire Foundation c| 2017

a| 158 pages

a| Leuven Library of Music in Facsimile v| 1

a| In 2014 a small Brussels auction-house sold a lot containing a statue, an illuminated initial, and a song-book to a private art-dealer. The song-book was brought to the Alamire Foundation/KU Leuven Musicology Research Group for further investigation. The book, it turns out, is a previously entirely unknown late fifteenth-century chansonnier, complete and in its original cloth binding. The appearance of a new such source of any kind is extremely rare, and all the more so of one in unaltered form. It is almost a century since the last such discovery. The manuscript was acquired by intervention of the Léon Courtin – Marcelle Bouché Fund, a fund which is administered by the King Baudouin Foundation, and handed over to the Alamire Foundation, International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries, by means of a long-term loan.Both repertoire and physical characteristics date the source to the last quarter of the fifteenth century, and mark the source as a prestigious and personal object for wealthy nobility. The Leuven Chansonnier is thus an extremely important discovery in at least four respects: it deepens knowledge of the ways in which fifteenth-century song was consumed; it deepens knowledge of the circulation of fifteenth-century courtly song; it provides a new witness for known works, including the most popular songs of the time; and it adds no less than twelve new pieces to the fifteenth-century song repertory.

a| Text in English and Dutch

a| 15th Century (1401-1500) 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7018 9| 21015

a| Music history 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q846047 9| 21373

a| Song 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7366 9| 4164

a| Manuscript 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q87167 9| 2275

a| Leuven (Belgium) 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q118958 9| 26817

a| Bossuyt, Ignace 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2419781 d| 1947- 4| trl 9| 16619

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