Guillaume Veau was a thirteenth-century French trouvère. Three chansons courtoises are attributed to him in the Vatican manuscript Reg.lat.1490:
- 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 tonal centre of the first four phrases. The "moderately florid" melodies of all three are written in bar form.
Nothing else is known about Veau.
References
- ^ Theodore Karp, "Guillaume Veau", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- The manuscript is digitized online.
Further reading
- Holger Petersen Dyggve. Onomastique des trouvères. Ayer Publishing, 1973.