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Douce Dame Jolie
"Douce Dame Jolie", sometimes referred to only as 'Douce Dame', is a song from the 14th century, by the French composer Guillaume de Machaut. The song is a virelai, belonging to the style ars nova, and is one of the most often heard medieval tunes today. Many modern recordings omit the lyrics, however. One of the most famous musical pieces of the Middle Ages, 'Douce Dame' has been performed by a plethora of artists, mostly but not always in medieval style. Among others are Annwn (with lyrics), Ayragon (with lyrics), Theo Bleckmann (with lyrics), Els Berros de la Cort, Corvus Corax, Schelmish (with lyrics), Dr Cosgill, Fable of the Bees, Filia Irata, Två fisk och en fläsk (with lyrics), Wisby Vaganter, A La Via! (with lyrics), Lisa Lynne, The John Renbourn Group (with English lyrics), WirrWahr, Wolfenmond, Saltatio Mortis, Angels of Venice (soprano Christina Linhardt, harpist Carol Tatum) and Legião Urbana (no lyrics, named "A Ordem dos Templários" (The Templar Order) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machaut Douce Dame Jolie
Guillaume de Machaut (, ; also Machau and Machault; – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate the from the subsequent movement. Regarded as the most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century, he is often seen as the century's leading European composer. One of the earliest European composers on whom considerable biographical information is available, Machaut has an unprecedented amount of surviving music, in part due to his own involvement in his manuscripts' creation and preservation. Machaut embodies the culmination of the poet-composer tradition stretching back to the traditions of troubadour and ''trouvère''; well into the 15th century his poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets, including Geoffrey Chaucer and Eustache Deschamps, the latter of whom was Machaut's student. Machaut compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A La Via!
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th-century Songs
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was a century lasting from 1 January 1301 ( MCCCI), to 31 December 1400 ( MCD). It is estimated that the century witnessed the death of more than 45 million lives from political and natural disasters in both Europe and the Mongol Empire. West Africa experienced economic growth and prosperity. In Europe, the Black Death claimed 25 million lives wiping out one third of the European population while the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France fought in the protracted Hundred Years' War after the death of Charles IV, King of France led to a claim to the French throne by Edward III, King of England. This period is considered the height of chivalry and marks the beginning of strong separate identities for both England and France as well as the foundation of the Italian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire. In Asia, Tamerlane (Timur), established the Timurid Empire, history's third largest empire to have been ever establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Compositions By Guillaume De Machaut
The French composer Guillaume de Machaut was the most prolific composer of his time, with surviving works many forms, the three ''formes fixes'' rondeaux, virelais, ballades, as well as motets, lais and a single representative of the complainte, chanson royale, double hocket and mass genres. Most of his extant output is secular music, with a notable exception in the renowned ''Messe de Nostre Dame''. His ''oeuvre'' as a whole represents an unprecedented amount of surviving music for a single medieval composer, largely in part due to his own efforts to preserve and curate manuscripts for his music. The dominate figure of the style in late medieval music, Machaut is regarded as the most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century and often seen as the century's leading European composer. Since many titles are merely the first lines of the texts used, in different sources individual pieces may be referred to by slightly different titles. For example, R20 is known both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medieval Music
Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period. Following the traditional division of the Middle Ages, medieval music can be divided into Early (500–1150), High (1000–1300), and Late (1300–1400) medieval music. Medieval music includes liturgical music used for the church, and secular music, non-religious music; solely vocal music, such as Gregorian chant and choral music (music for a group of singers), solely instrumental music, and music that uses both voices and instruments (typically with the instruments accompanying the voices). Gregorian chant was sung by monks during Catholic Mass. The Mass is a reenactment of Christ's Last Supper, intended to provide a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtly Love
Courtly love ( oc, fin'amor ; french: amour courtois ) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various deeds or services for ladies because of their "courtly love". This kind of love is originally a literary fiction created for the entertainment of the nobility, but as time passed, these ideas about love changed and attracted a larger audience. In the high Middle Ages, a "game of love" developed around these ideas as a set of social practices. "Loving nobly" was considered to be an enriching and improving practice. Courtly love began in the ducal and princely courts of Aquitaine, Provence, Champagne, ducal Burgundy and the Norman Kingdom of Sicily at the end of the eleventh century. In essence, courtly love was an experience between erotic desire and spiritual attainment, "a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legião Urbana
Legião Urbana (Portuguese for Urban Legion) was a Brazilian rock band formed in 1982 in Brasília, Distrito Federal. The band primarily consisted of Renato Russo (vocals, bass and keyboards), Dado Villa-Lobos (guitar) and Marcelo Bonfá (drums). In its earlier days, Legião Urbana also had a full-time bassist, Renato Rocha, but he left the band due to creative divergences. While Legião Urbana disbanded officially in 1996, after frontman Renato Russo's death, it is one of the most famous Brazilian rock bands, alongside Os Mutantes, Titãs, Os Paralamas do Sucesso, and Barão Vermelho. History The beginning Renato Russo (born Renato Manfredini, Jr.) founded Legião Urbana in 1982 in Brasília, after leaving his previous band Aborto Elétrico ("Electric Abortion"). Aborto Elétrico broke up due to repeated disagreements between Russo and brothers Flávio and Fê Lemos, his bandmates. After Aborto Elétrico split and Russo created Legião Urbana, the two brothers would al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Linhardt
Christina Linhardt is a German-American singer, actor, and director, best known for her roles in the production of the film ''Guantanamo Circus'', and as the former fiancée of Prince Daniel of Saxony. Linhardt produced, directed, and wrote ''Guantanamo Circus'', which won a Hollywood F.A.M.E. Award for "Documentary of the Year," and was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its permanent collection. The film also won an LA Music Award for its music score by Linhardt. She is staff writer for the California Philharmonic Orchestra. Linhardt has released two music CDs: ''Circus Sanctuary'' and ''Voodoo Princess''. She performs on vocals and flute with the Angels of Venice, and has been interviewed on LA Talk Radio, KPFK Radio and KPC Radio. Linhardt played the role of "Party Girl" in ''Movie 43''. She starred opposite Maximilian Schell in a production of ''Goethe's Faust Comes to Grand Avernue'', for which she was also associate producer. The daughter of scholar, hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Of Venice
Angels Of Venice is a harp, cello, flute and vocal group founded by harpist Carol Tatum in 1993. The group's core sound is harp, flute and cello but also combines Middle Eastern, medieval and neoclassical styles.Billboard - 22 March 1997 - Page 42 "The Angels Of Venice started out as a classically inclined chamber ensemble. On their 1996 album, "Awake Inside Dream" (Epiphany), they adopted Moroccan rhythms and wailing Middle Eastern vocals. "The influences I draw upon are the ..."" Members * Carol Tatum - harp, Irish bouzouki * Cathy Biagini - cello * Susan Craig Winsberg - flutes/recorder * Irina Chirkova - cello Their self-titled album was released through Windham Hill as well as numerous tracks on various Windham Hill compilations. Originally Angels of Venice was purely an instrumental group with cameo vocal performances. Featured guest vocalists who have recorded with Angels Of Venice are shock-rock/goth singer Charles Edward (featured vocalist on ''Ancient Delirium'') from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltatio Mortis
Saltatio Mortis is a German medieval metal group. The Latin name means "dance of death". It is an allusion to the Danse Macabre, and a motto of the band is: "He who dances does not die." Members Current * Alea der Bescheidene - vocals, bagpipes, didgeridoo, guitar, Irish bouzouki, shawms * Falk Irmenfried von Hasen-Mümmelstein - bagpipes, vocals, hurdy-gurdy, shawms * El Silbador (since 2006) - bagpipes, shawms, smallpipes, uilleann pipes and other pipes * Bruder Frank (since 2006) - bass guitars, electric upright Chapman Stick, guitar * Till Promill (since 2012) - guitars * Jean Mechant der Tambour (since 2009) - drums, piano, guitar, vocals * Luzi das L (since 2011) - pipes, shawms, flutes Past * Lasterbalk der Lästerliche (up to 2021) - drums, davul and other percussion * Dominor der Filigrane (2000 to 2009) - guitars, German bagpipes, shawms * Die Fackel (2000 to 2006) - bass guitars, mandola, harp, German bagpipes, shawms * Ungemach der Missgestimmte (2000 to 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
