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The Orlando Consort» More |
As they walk back to the castle, the lady asks the Lover why he disappeared so suddenly earlier, and, bolstered by Hope’s teaching, the Lover explains the whole story, recapitulating for her the events of the narrative thus far. As proof of his feelings of love, he tells her, if she ‘looks over that last little song I sang [Dame, a vous], whose words and music I composed, you could readily discover whether I lie or speak the truth’. The song thus authenticates the Lover’s emotions, and the lady accepts his love. The after-dinner entertainment includes an elaborate list of nearly two dozen instruments of all sizes and sounds, which nevertheless performed ‘without discord’, and then performances by singers so skilled in both ‘old and new styles’ of music that they were superior to Orpheus.
from notes by Anne Stone © 2023
Machaut: Songs from Remede de Fortune Scenes of courtly life and love in fourteenth-century France woven by Machaut into a magisterial work of poetry and music.» More |