Joie plaisence et douce norriture is a monophonic song by the fourteenth-century French composer Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377). It is designated as a 'Chanson Royal', though the meaning of this term is unclear. Although Machaut wrote several chansons royaulx as poems, this is Machaut's only musical setting of this genre. It is quite clearly an continuation of the troubadour and trouvère schools as it is monophonic, strophic (in five stanzas and an envoy), has a text which is a poem in praise of love, and is cast in the musical form AAB, which was utilised by many troubadours and trouvères.

It forms a part of Machaut's extended poem Remède de Fortune, which also includes examples of the ballade, rondeau, virelai (or chanson balladée) and motet. Remède de Fortune also includes Machaut's only example of the Complainte form, Tels rit au main que au soir pleure, also a troubadour/trouvère form.



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