A382: Figures of Harmony - ENG

r e l e a s e f e b r u a r y 2015 – A 382 –

F igures of H armony

S ongs of C odex C hantilly c . 1390 Ferrara Ensemble Crawford Young here an extract!

Presented in a stylish 4-CD box set, here is a comprehensive recording of one of the most enigmatic manuscripts in the history of European music, preserved in the museum at the Château de Chantilly, France.

‘Anything that can be sung, can be written in music notation,’ claimed an anonymous treatise on notation in the late fourteenth century. The harmonies thus ‘captured’ on parchment represent an apex in Western music, associated with the wealthiest courts in Christendom, called ‘decadent’ by some. Various elements of improvisation – avant-garde dissonance, astonishing rhythmic complexity, arching, lyrical melisma – meld into musical forms which test the boundaries of late Gothic sensibilities. Here are love songs for the End of the World: a time of deadly plague, devastating earthquakes, endless war, disintegrating religion, and the explosion of science and measurement.

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r e l e a s e f e b r u a r y 2015 – A 382 –

F igures of H armony – S ongs of C odex C hantilly c . 1390

TRACK LIST

CD1

1 Helas pitié envers moy dort si fort 2 Se Alixandre et Hector fussent en vie 3 Tout par compas suy composés 4 Adieu vous di, tres doulce compaynie 5 Rondeau-refrain 6 Pres du soloil deduissant s’esbanoye 7 Io vegio per stasone 8 Lamech Judith et Rachel de plourer 9 Le mont Aon de Thrace, doulz pais 10 Se Zephirus, Phebus et leur lignie

CD2

1 Pictagoras Jabol et Orpheüs 2 S’aincy estoit que ne feust la noblesce 3 Bobik blazen 4 Va t’en, mon cuer, aveuc mes yeux 5 Se July Cesar, Rolant et roy Artus 6 En seumeillant m’avint une vesion 7 Sub arturo plebs vallata 8 Par les bons Gedeon et Sanson delivré 9 En Albion de fluns environée 10 Tres gentil cuer 11 Il n’est nulz homs en ce monde vivant

5’58 12’52 2’05 3’20 1’46 9’54 2’26 3’12 11’02 4’41 7’16 10’57 1’39 4’11 10’44 8’03 4’40 7’00 3’33 3’51 10’42

CD3

1 De ma doulour 2 La fiamma del to amor 3 La harpe de mélodie 4 Istanpitta Isabella 5 En remirant 6 Le ray au soleyl 7 Chanconeta tedescha tenor 8 Sus une fontayne 9 Constantia 10 Chanconeta tedescha tenor 11 En attendant souffrir

CD4

8’41 2’32 4’12 7’19 10’54 1’30 2’26 8’16 3’18 2’21 9’11

1 Angelorum psalat tripudium 5’47 2 Principio di virtu 6’43 3 Fuions de ci fuions povre compaigne 9’13 4 Or voit tout en aventure 2’42 5 Passerose de beauté la noble flour 9’37 6 Medee fu en amer veritable 6’16 7 Tel me voit et me regarde 3’46 8 Quant joyne cuer en may est amoureux 8’08 9 Corps femenin par vertu de nature 3’04 10 Calextone qui fut dame darouse 3’26 11 Passerose flours excellente 0’58 12 Roses et lis ay veu en une flour 8’06

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