Guillaume Veau Explained

Guillaume Veau was a thirteenth-century French trouvère.^[1] Three chansons courtoises are attributed to him in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.1490:^[2]

• J'ai amé trestout mon vivant^[1]
• Meudre achoison n'euc onques de chanter^[1]
• S'amours loiaus m'a fait soufrir^[1]

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.^[1]

Further reading

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

Notes and References

1. [Theodore Karp]
2. The manuscript is digitized online.