Guillaume Veau was a thirteenth-century French

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"Guillaume Veau"
''Grove Music Online'', Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 29 November 2021. Three '' chansons courtoises'' are attributed to him in the

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manuscript Reg.lat.1490:The manuscript i
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*''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

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of the first four phrases. The "moderately florid" melodies of all three are written in

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. Nothing else is known about Veau.

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