Dorian Discovery
DIS-80123
Music of Medieval France
Sonus
James Carrier: shawm, recorders, oud, harp, gemshorn.
Hazel Ketchum: voice, saz, percussion
John Holenko: oud, chitarra, psaltry, saz, percussion
Will Mason saz, chitarra, vihuela, hammer dulcimer, percussion
The beginnings of vernacular song in western music can be traced to the 12th century troubadours in the south of France. These aristocratic poet/musicians travelled from court to court and benefitted from the education and wealth of the ruling classes. Their poems and songs were often spread by wandering jongleurs, the itinerant "professionals" of the time. Writing in the language of Provençal or langue d'oc, the troubadours left us 2600 poems and 275 melodies. Musical influences were Gregorian chant and the older Goliardic art. The subjects of the songs were literary and political satire or some aspect of courtly love, idealised and highly abstract. Chivalric romance presented a deification of woman, mirrored in the feminization of the Divinity and worship of the Virgin. All of the songs presented here express the medieval concepts of love and chivalry.|
[ 1.] Dance - Penser ne doit vilenie (Anon., 13th cent.) [ 2.] Gaite de la tor (Anon., 13th cent.) [ 3.] Chanterai pour mon coraige (Guiot de Dijon, 12th cent.) [ 4.] Quan je voy le duc (Italian, 14th cent.) [ 5.] Non es meravelha s'eu chan (Bernart de Ventadour, 12th cent.) [ 6.] Souvent souspire (Anon., 13th cent.) [ 7.] Quant je suis (Guillaume de Machaut - 1300-1377 ) [ 8.] Je puis trop bien (Machaut) [ 9.] De bonté, de valour (Machaut) [10.] Ma fin est ma commencement (Machaut) [11.] Gaite de la tor (Anon., 13th cent.) [12.] Reis glorios (Giraut de Bornelh, 12th cent.) [13.] Estampie real (Anon., 13th cent.) |
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