Note 293 — Chapter IV · THE MINSTREL REPERTORY
Reading edition
Ibid. ii. 344. The Paris MS. (B. N. f. fr. 2168) of Aucassin et Nicolete preserves the musical notation of the verse sections. Only three musical phrases, with very slight variations, are used. Two of these were probably repeated, alternately or at the singer’s fancy, throughout the tirade; the third provided a cadence for the closing line (Bourdillon, Aucassin et Nicolette (1897), 157).