| Description |
1 score (x pages, 340 pages) ; 26 cm. |
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score |
| Series |
Toronto medieval texts and translations,
0821-4344 ;
11
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Toronto medieval texts and translations ; 11.
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| Note |
Unaccompanied melodies, in original and modern notation. |
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Sixty-one songs in the manuscripts Paris, Bibliothèque nationale Fr. 24406 and N.A. Fr. 1050. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-89) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Virge des ciels clere et pure = Shining and pure virgin of the heavens -- Mout sera cil bien norris = He who will be well fed -- De la tres douce Marie = Of the most sweet Mary -- De la flor de paradis = Of the flower of paradise -- Mainte chançon ai fait de grant ordure = I have made many a song from the worst filth -- Chanter vos vueil de la virge Marie = I wish to sing to you about the Virgin Mary -- On doit la mere Dieu honorer = One should honour the mother of God -- Quant voi le siecle escolorgier = When I perceive the world slipping away -- Prions en chantant = We pray by singing -- Lonc tens ai usé ma vie = For a long time I have spent my life -- Mere au roi puissant = Mother of the powerful king -- Qui bien aime a tart oublie = He who loves well takes a long time to forget -- Je te pri de cuer par amors = I ask you from the heart, for love -- Or laissons ester = Now let us leave -- Fox est qui en folie = A fool is he in folly -- J'ai un cuer trop lent = I have a heart which is too slow / Thiebaut d'Amiens -- Je ne vueil plus de sohier = I do not wish to sing of foulness any longer / Thiebaut d'Amiens (?) -- De la mere au sauvëor = Of the mother of the Savior / Thiebaut d'Amiens (?) -- Quant voi la flor novele = When I see the new flowers -- De Yesse naïstra = Born from the lineage of Jesse -- Fine amor et bone esperance = True love and high hopes -- De penser a vilainie = From thinking of villainy -- Et cler et lai = Both cleric and laic -- Douce dame, virge Marie = Sweet lady, Virgin Mary -- Chançon ferai, puis que Diex m'a doné = I will make a song, since God has given me grace -- Por ce que verité die = Because it speaks truth -- Au douz comencement d'esté = At the sweet commencement of summer -- Buer fu néz qui s'apareille = He who prepares himself -- Qui de la prime florete = About the first budding flower -- Une tres douce pensée = A sweet thought -- |
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Chanter m'estuet de celle sans targier = I must not delay singing of her -- Vivre touz temps = Living forever -- Chanter m'estuet de la sainte pucelle = I must sing of the holy maiden -- Quant Diex ot formé l'omme = When God formed man -- L'autrier m'iere rendormiz = I was asleep one summer morning lately -- Quant froidure trait a fin = When cold weather comes to an end -- De la gloriouse fenix = Of the glorious phoenix -- La volentéz dont mes cuers est raviz = The willingness which transports my heart -- Cuers qui son entendement = The heart that wishes -- Tout ensement con retraient a l'aire = Just as birds take to the air -- De fin cuer et d'aigre talent = From tender heart and active desire -- Quant glace et nois et froidure s'esloigne = When ice and snow and cold retreat -- Loée tant que loer = You who are praised so much -- Rose cui nois ne gelée = Rose which neither snow nor ice can destroy -- Per vous m'esjau = In you I rejoice -- Talent me rest pris de chanter = Desire compels me to sing -- A la mere Dieu servier = Serving the mother of God -- Aveugles, muëz et sourz = Blind, mute, and deaf -- Emplorant me couvient chanter = I am moved to sing while weeping -- De la mere Dieu doit chanter = Sing of the mother of God -- Dame, s'entiere entencions = Lady, if wholehearted intentions -- De la mere Dieu chanterai = I will sing of the mother of God -- Bien est raison puis que Diex m'a donné = It is a good thing since God has given me -- Toute riens ont commencement = All things have a beginning -- Ja ne verrai le desir acompli = I will never see fulfilment of the desire -- Droiz est que la creature = It is right that the created -- De l'estoile, mere au soloil = Of the star, mother of the sun -- L'estoile qui tant est clere = The star which is so bright -- De volenté desiriere = From willing desire -- En la vostre maintenance = In your keeping -- Tant[ne] me plaist toute phylosophie = It would please me to know all of philosophy. |
| Language |
Songs in old French, with English translation. |
| Subject |
Sacred songs, Unaccompanied.
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Sacred songs, Unaccompanied. |
| Genre/Form |
Trouvère songs.
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| Subject |
Songs, Old French.
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Songs, Old French. |
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Sacred vocal music -- France -- 500-1400.
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Sacred vocal music. |
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France. |
| Chronological Term |
500-1400 |
| Genre/Form |
Sacred vocal music.
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Songs.
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Songs.
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Notated music.
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Notated music.
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| Added Author |
Epstein, Marcia Jenneth, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0802008402 cloth |
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0802078265 paperback |
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