Understanding Marty’s tune: <i>J’ai trouvé</i> (<i>La note Martinet</i>, RS474)

ABSTRACT This article reconsiders ‘Marty’s tune’ ( La note Martinet ), a texted dance song of the thirteenth century that survives in two sources, one with musical notation. It evaluates older understandings of the song’s form and generic designation, attempting to use poetic variants between the texts to understand the factors that might have preceded the writing down of this rarely notated song type.