Guillaume Veau

Guillaume Veau was a thirteenth-century French trouvère.Theodore Karp, [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/11986 "Guillaume Veau"], Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 29 November 2021. Three chansons courtoises are attributed to him in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.1490:The manuscript is [https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.lat.1490 digitized online].

  • J'ai amé trestout mon vivant
  • Meudre achoison n'euc onques de chanter
  • S'amours loiaus m'a fait soufrir

The first two of these are unica, that is, they appear in no other source. They both end on a note other than the tonal centre of the first four phrases. The "moderately florid" melodies of all three are written in bar form.

Nothing else is known about Veau.

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Further reading

  • Holger Petersen Dyggve. Onomastique des trouvères. Ayer Publishing, 1973.

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Category:Trouvères

Category:13th-century French people

Category:French male classical composers