Guillaume de Machaut - Ma fin est mon commencement (three-voice palindromic rondeau)

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229, fol. 53v

The Orlando Consort
Dreams in the Pleasure Garden: Machaut Chansons

Archiv 457 618-2 (1998)


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First six measures of refrain and last six measures, showing mirror writing of all voices.






Medial cadence, showing mirror writing of all voices.