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]

Nothing else is known about Veau.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Theodore Karp, "Guillaume Veau", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  2. ^ The manuscript is digitized online.

Further reading

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