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Collage a Trois Trobar
8 Mar 2014
Geoffrey Gordon's Collage a Trois Trobar, commissioned for Twin Cities-based, Dare to Breathe, for five mixed voices with recorders and percussion--from a performance at the Cliff Dweller Club, Chicago (December, 2000).
From the composer's program notes:
Collage a Trois Trobar is inspired by, and draws musical materials from, three Troubadour songs of the 12th and 13th centuries--namely: Dehors Lonc pre el bosquel, Volez Vos que je Vos Chant and Bem platz longa . . . the texts of which follow below.
Dehors Lonc:
Dehors lonc pre el bosquel
Erroie avant hier.
La vi mener grant revel
Enmi un sentier.
D'une jolie tousette,
sage, plesant et jonete,
Dex tant m'abeli,
Quant seule la vi;
Et la touse tout ensi
Commence a chanter:
"Robin, que je doi amer,
Tu puetz bien trop demorer."
(TRANSLATION:
Near the arbor of Loncpre,
I wandered the day before yesterday.
There I saw, moving tremulously
along a pathway,a pretty maiden
Intelligent, pleasant and young.
God, I was enraptured
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