2009/8/1 Sauvage Valéry <[email protected]>: > There is a medieval song : Ja nuns hons pris , by King Richard "Lion > Heart"... Could be arranged for lute...
Very good! Didn't Blondel de Nesle sing for Richard? Here's the myth in the Wikipedia version: "...after Richard I of England was arrested and held for ransom in 1192, he was found by the minstrel Blondel, whom he saw from his window, and to whom he sang a verse of a song they both knew. Later versions of the story related that Blondel went from castle to castle, singing a particular song that only he and Richard knew, and that the imprisoned Richard replied with the second verse - thus identifying where he was imprisoned." There are some _beautiful_ songs by Blondel. I arranged his 'L'Amour dont sui espris' as a lute solo. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
