List of compositions by Guillaume de Machaut

The following is a list of the complete musical works of Guillaume de Machaut. Machaut was the first composer to concentrate on self-anthologization of his works, supervising the creation of three complete-works manuscripts during his life. In the last manuscript, written c. 1370, the scribe wrote "Vesci l'ordinance que G. de Machau wet qu'il ait en son livre" (Here is the order that G. de Machaut wants his book to have). [ Lawrence Earp, "Machaut's Role in the Production of Manuscripts of His Works," "Journal of the American Musicological Society" 42:3 (Fall 1989), 461.]

Machaut's works, like those of Johann Sebastian Bach and Joseph Haydn, are foremost organized by genre. The numbering scheme does not represent chronology, especially since few of Machaut's works can be reliably dated. Rather, they represent the order taken from the original manuscript. Furthermore, as many titles are merely the first lines, pieces may be referred to by slightly different titles (for example, R20 is known both as "Douce dame" and "Douce dame tant qui vivray"). However, the number given to any particular piece is fixed.

Ballades

B1 "S'Amours ne fait"
B2 "Helas! tant ay dolour"
B3 "On ne porroit penser"
B4 "Biaute qui toutes autres pere"
B5 "Riches d'amour et mendians"
B6 "Doulz amis"
B7 "J'aim mieus languir"
B8 "De desconfort"
B9 "Dame, ne regardes pas"
B10 "Ne penses pas"
B11 "N'en fait n'en dit"
B12 "Pour ce que tous mes chans"
B13 "Esperance qui m'asseure"
B14 "Je ne cuit pas"
B15 "Se je me pleing"
B16 "Dame, comment qu'amez"
B17 "Sanz cuer m'en vois/Amis, dolens/Dame, par vous"
B18 "De petit po"
B19 "Amours me fait desirer"
B20 "Je sui aussi com cilz"
B21 "Se quanque amours"
B22 "Il m'est avis"
B23 "De Fortune me doy pleindre"
B24 "Tres douce dame"
B25 "Honte, paour, doubtance"
B26 "Donnez, signeurs"
B27 "Une vipere en cuer"
B28 "Je puis trop bien"
B29 "De triste cuer/Quant vrais amans/Certes, je di"
B30 "Pas de tor"
B31 "De toutes flours"
B32 "Ploures, dames"
B33 "Nes que on porroit"
B34 "Quant Theseus / Ne quier veoir"
B35 "Gais et jolis"
B36 "Se pour ce muir"
B37 "Dame, se vous m'estes"
B38 "Phyton, le mervilleus serpent"
B39 "Mes esperis"
B40 "Ma chiere dame"
B41 "En amer a douce vie" from "Le Remède de Fortune "
B42 "Dame, de qui toute ma joie" from "Le Remède de Fortune"

Complainte

"Tels rit au main" from "Le Remède de Fortune"

Chanson Royale

"Joie, plaisence" from "Le Remède de Fortune"

Double Hocket

David Hoquetus

Lais

L1 "Loyaute, que point ne delay"
L2 "J'aim la flour de valour"
L3 "Pour ce qu'on puist"
L4 "Nuls ne doit avoir"
L5 "Par trois raisons"
L6 "Amours doucement"
L7 "Le lay des dames": "Amis t'amour"
L8 "Le lay mortel": "Un mortel lay weil commencier"
L9 "Le lay de l'ymage": "Ne say comment commencier"
L10 "Le lay de Nostre Dame": "Contre ce doulz mois de may"
L11 "Le lay de la fontienne": "Je ne cesse de prier"
L12 "Le lay de confort": "S'onques doulereusement"
L13 "Le lay de bonne esperance": "Longuement me sui"
L14 "Le lay de plour": "Malgre fortune"
L15 "Le lay de la rose": "Pour vivre joliement"
L16 "Le lay de plour": "Qui bien aimme"
L17 "Un lay de consolation": "Pour ce que plus proprement"
L18 "En demantant"
L19 "Qui n'aroit autre deport" from "Le Remède de Fortune"

Messe de Nostre Dame

Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Ite missa est

Motets

M1 "Amour et biaute/Quant en moy voint/Amara valde"
M2 "De souspirant/Tous corps qui de bien amer/Suspiro"
M3 "Fine Amour/He! Mors com tu es haie/Quare non sum mortuus"
M4 "Puisque la douce rousee/De Bon Espoir/Speravi"
M5 "Qui plus aimme/Aucune gent m'ont demandé/Fiat voluntas tua"
M6 "S'Amours tous amans joir/S'il estoit nulz qui pleindre/Et gaudebit cor vestrum"
M7 "Lasse! je sui en aventure/J'ay tant mon cuer/Ego moriar pro te"
M8 "Ha! Fortune/Qui es promesses de Fortune/Et non est qui adjuvet"
M9 "O livoris feritas/Fons totuis superbie/Fera pessima"
M10 "Helas! ou sera pris confors/Hareu! hareu! le feu/Obediens usque ad mortem"
M11 "Fins cuers doulz/Dame, je sui cilz/Fins cuers doulz"
M12 "Corde mesto cantando/Helas! pour quoy virent/Libera me"
M13 "Eins que ma dame/Tant doucement m'ont attrait/Ruina"
M14 "De ma dolour/Maugre mon cuer/Quia amore langueo"
M15 "Faus Samblant m'a deceu/Amours qui ha le pouoir/Vidi Dominum"
M16 "Se j'aim mon loyal ami/Lasse! comment oublieray/Pour quoy me bat mes matris?"
M17 "O series summe rata/Quant vraie amour enflamee/Super omnes speciosa"
M18 "Bone pastor, qui pastores/Bone pastor, Guillerme/Bone pastor"
M19 "Diligenter inquiramus/Martyrum gemma latria/A Christo honoratus"
M20 "Biaute paree de valour/Trop plus est belle/Je ne sui mie certeins"
M21 "Veni creator spiritus/Christe, quie lux es/Tribulatio proxima est et non est qui adjuvet"
M22 "Plange, regni respublica/Tu qui gregem tuum ducis/Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge"
M23 "Inviolata genitrix/Felix virgo/Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes"
M24 "De touz les biens/Li enseignement/Ecce tu pulchra es amica mea" (Doubtful)

Rondeaux

R1 "Doulz viaire gracieus"
R2 "Helas! pour quoy"
R3 "Merci vous pri"
R4 "Sans cuer, dolens"
R5 "Quant j'ay l'espart"
R6 "Cinc, un, treze"
R7 "Se vous n'estes"
R8 "Vos doulz resgars"
R9 "Tant doucement"
R10 "Rose, liz, printemps"
R11 "Comment puet on mieus"
R12 "Ce qui soustient"
R13 "Dame, se vous n'aves aperceu"
R14 "Ma fin est mon commencement"
R15 "Certes, mon oueil"
R16 "Dame, qui weult"
R17 "Dix et sept, cinc, trese"
R18 "Puis qu'en oubli"
R19 "Quant ma dame les maus"
R20 "Douce dame tant qui vivray"
R21 "Quant je ne voy"
R22 "Dame, mon cuer" from "Le Remède de Fortune"

Virelais

V1 "He! dame de vaillance"
V2 "Layaute weil tous jours"
V3 "Ay mi! dame de valour"
V4 "Douce dame jolie"
V5 "Comment qu'a moy"
V6 "Se ma dame"
V7 "Puis que ma dolour"
V8 "Dou mal qui m'a longuement"
V9 "Dame, je weil endurer"
V10 "De bonte, de valour"
V11 "He! dame de valour"
V12 "Dame, a qui m'ottri"
V13 "Quant je sui mis"
V14 "J'aim sans penser"
V15 "Se mesdisans"
V16 "C'est force, faire le weil"
V17 "Dame, vostre doulz viaire"
V18 "Helas! et comment"
V19 "Dieus, Biaute, Douceur"
V20 "Se d'amer"
V21 "Je vivroie liement"
V22 "Foy porter"
V23 "Tres bonne et belle"
V24 "En mon cuer"
V25 "Tuit mi penser"
V26 "Mors sui, se je ne vous voy"
V27 "Liement me deport"
V28 "Plus dure que un dyamant"
V29 "Dame, mon cuer emportes"
V30 "Se je souspir"
V31 "Moult sui de bonne heure nee"
V32 "De tout sui si confortee"
V33 "Dame, a vous sans retollier" from "Le Remède de Fortune"

Alternate cataloging

The works from "Le Remède de Fortune" have presented a problem for modern-day collections, as they appeared in the manuscript in the poem, not with other works of its genre. Thus, occasionally "Le Remède de Fortune" works are given their own category and catalogued according to the order of their appearance:

RF1 "Qui n'aroit autre deport" (Lai)
RF2 "Tels rit au main" (Complainte)
RF3 "Joie, plaisence" (Chanson Royale)
RF4 "En amer a douce vie" (Balladele)
RF5 "Dame, de qui toute ma joie" (Ballade)
RF6 "Dame, a vous sans retollier" (Chanson Baladée)
RF7 "Dame, mon cuer" (Rondeau)

References

*cite web|title=The Works of Guillaume de Machaut|url=http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/MMDB/composer/COM003.htm |publisher=La Trobe University Library |date=2003-06-02|accessdate=2008-02-08
*cite web|title=Author: Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
url=http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/m/machaut/ |publisher=The Lied and Art Song Texts Page |accessdate=2008-02-08

Example

Recording

*2004 – "Zodiac. Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior in the Low Countries and Europe". Capilla Flamenca. Eufoda 1360. Contains recordings of "Riches d'amour et mendians d'amie" and "Quant je suis mis au retour" by Guillaume de Machaut.