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This chansonnier was collected under the supervision of Johannes Tinctoris in Naples around 1475. It is a major source for the chansons of his friend Antoine Busnois (cf. collected chansons […]

The French chansonnier Sevilla, Biblioteca Columbina 5-I-43 was torn apart at the end of the 19th century. Parts of this theft have reappeared in Paris, BN, nouvelles acquisitions fr. 4379. […]

Caron is one of the most enigmatic composers of the second half of the fifteenth century. His chansons, though, were extremely popular. They also served as a basis for several […]

This Neapolitan manuscript from before 1487 is now for the first time completely available. It contains a lot of pieces destined to be played instrumentally and thus an invaluable source […]

It is one of the big scandals of musicology that there is up to now no edition of Boccherini’s string quintetts which are among the most exciting and deepest works […]

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms Magl. XIX 176 Chansons of great importance, unica of very high quality of the generation of Dufay and English provenance. Collected around 1480. Very close […]

This very fine chansonnier of French provenance around the years 1480-90 is almost an antology of chansons by Agricola and Hayne van Ghizeghem. Recent scholarship attributes its collection to Anne […]

This chansonnier was probably created in Ferrara for the Este family. It dates from around 1480 to 1490. It has not a single text and is thus conceived as an […]

Johannes Martini (ca. 1440-ca. 1497) was trained in Flanders and worked mostly in Ferrara and Milan. The most important sources of his secular work are Casanatense and Florence 229. His […]