I wasn't aware of Codex Chantilly, Solage or Fumeux Fume before listening to a radio program last Sunday.
Shows how huge holes we have in our knowledge! ;) FWD: Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:48:30 -0500 Reply-To: Early Music List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Early Music List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: bgarfink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Tobacco music In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Paolo Pesenti wrote: > Charles Hillen wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > I am trying to locate a resource that would tell me all the Renaissance > > and/or Baroque music themed around tobacco. It could be songs, or > > > instrumental works with tobacco in the title. > > If you don't mind some pre-Renaissance references, I would suggest "Fumeux > Fume par fumee" by Solage, and "Puisque je suis fumeux" by Johannes Simon > Hasprois, both preserved in the Codex Chantilly [Musee Conde' MS 564 olim > 1047] compiled in the 1380s. They are recorded by Ensemble PAN on New Albion > 021, titled `Ars Magis Subtiliter'. They are kind of extraordinary pieces, > very unusual and, well, weird even with respect to the (very high) standards > of the Codex Chantilly. I suppose they qualify as good examples of > psychedelic ars nova... There's good reason for this: Europe did not have tobacco until it was brought back from the new world, so the medieval songs are probably about either the relatively easy-to-come-by hemp flowers (or marijuana, as we know it) or the exotic and mystic opium. . . Oh, and there's always the Pipe song in the Anna Magdalena Bach notebook. I'm pretty sure there's also one by Telemann, which (I think, but don't quote me on this) can be found in his music tutor (the exact title escapes me at the moment). Beth ************ Here is a bunch of CD:s with version of the same http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000074R/qid=1118315362/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5178046-9712631?v=glance&s=classical On 6/9/05, Arto Wikla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all > > I did some Googling and found the recording I told about - well actually > a 2-CD version of the old 3-LP recording. The page I found is: > > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002SSB/102-5627750-3067359?v=glance#product-details > > and the recording is > The Art of Courtly Love by David Munrow & co. (LP 1973, CD 1996) > > The liner notes are not there, but now everybody can check her/his > record collection, read the liner notes if found, and repeat it > here... ;-) > > It that page there are some reviews, though. Here are some clips: > > "The first part is devoted to Guillaume Machault's songs, works which > can be dated around 1350 to 1360. The second part of the programme is > concerned with the so-called avantgarde from Avignon (including names > such as Matteo da Perugia), composers who wrote for esoteric circles > around 1380 to 1410. And the third part (the third LP of the original) > is devoted to fifteenth-century music from the court of Burgundy, the > two great composers here being Dufay and Binchois." > > "The Old French texts are printed in full with English translations, so > it is possible to follow every nuance." > > "The second part is weirdness from the Avignon court of the Popes, the > time when rhythmic notation got more sophisticated, and composers grew > more experimental. The unusual chromaticism of -Fumeux fume- is given a > great performance here. The -Tre fontane- estampie is given a reading > here that is truly frenzied. -Plasanche, ou tost- is a lovely song. You > also get rhythmic oddities like -Le greygnour bien-." > > "The sleeve note, written by Munrow himself, provides wonderful > explanations of the hallmarks of each composer's style. " > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
