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Mon Dieu, la belle entrée Du grand roy des François

Mon Dieu, la belle entrée

Sung to the tune of: Mon Dieu, la belle entrée du grand Roy des François

 Mon Dieu, la belle entrée of the Ansteorran King,  
The nobles rise to bow while the people stand and sing.
The Queen in all her glory, inspiring chivalry,
Joins in our story of nobility.
 
The grandeur of the court is a marvel to behold.
The ladies crowned with jewels, and the Knights all chained in Gold.
Counselors in their red hats lined with ermine like their gown,
Wear chains of office that show great renown.
 
The honored artisans, with their laurel wreath displayed,
Enhance the realm’s beauty, as do Masters with the blade.
But the King that leads us all is the symbol of our fame,
So let us call our kingdom’s glorious name.
 
Mon Dieu, la belle entrée of the Ansteorran King,
The nobles rise to bow and the people stand to sing.
The Queen in all her glory, inspiring chivalry,
Joins in our story of nobility.

The written music can be found here.

A good recording is at https://open.spotify.com/track/0DglgyOp4bBSGeCYVyHdcO?si=kJS1vd9aQgK2jGhn0lSzDw

Medieval Christmas 2019 – The Carol

Medieval Christmas 2019 – The Carol

Playlist:

Vocal Consort music

These are the songs that the Ansteorra Choir is preparing for Spring 2019: 

Deo Gracias Anglia, the Agincourt Carol
http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/images/4/40/Deo_gracias.pdf

April is in my Mistress Face, Thomas Morley, 
http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Morley/april.pdf

Belle qui tiens ma vie, Thoinot Arbeau, http://stcpress.org/miscellaneous/belle_qui/belle_qui_tiens_ma_vie.pdf

Una Sanosa porfia, Juan del Encina, 
http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Una-sañosa-porfía-10-verses.pdf

Psallite Unigenito

http://www.twmarsh.net/music/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Psallite-Unigenito.pdf

Medieval Christmas 2018

This is the plan for the Medieval Christmas 2018, which I’m calling Christmas Through the Centuries.

11th Century:  Ut Queant Laxis

12th Century: Orientis Partibus

13th Century:  Rosa das Rosas

14th Century: In Dulci Jubilo , and Adam Lay Ybounden

15th Century: What Tidings Bringest Thou , and Ther is no Rose of Swych Vertu

16th Century: Gaudete, and Psallite Unigenito  

 The program is here. 

A Spotify playlist including these songs can be found at: https://open.spotify.com/user/c9zywtmekfv23q12mchvnllxy/playlist/5vXJcw3k2v9uV0JsaWLY6z?si=L3Y_tcKmQ7KNWTgSjU0wCA

Archbishop Parker’s Psalter

In 1567, Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker published a translation of the Psalms in verse. You can read more about it at http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/The_Whole_Psalter_Translated_(1567) . Thomas Tallis wrote a collection of 9 tunes using the meters found in Parker’s verse, so that any psalm in the collection may be sung to one or more of the melodies.

I reset Tune 8 with Psalm 67 to better fit a modern choir.

 

The third tune was used by Ralph Vaughn Williams in his “Fantasy of a theme by Thomas Tallis”. Tallis used Psalm 2 as his example for that melody, but Psalm 23 would work with it also.