To All: After spending insane hours dedicated to house-building in a mad attempt to beat the snow and frozen ground, and the usual spate of December gigs, we took the time to make a new video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT4PLrF0utc This is a performance of Mignonne allons voir si la rose from the poetry of Pierre Ronsard, also recorded on our CD Divine Amarillis. The original is found only as a single melody line in Jehan Chardavoine's _Recueil de chansons en forme de voix de ville_ (1576). The engaging melody has often been performed with a drone, unison doubling or simple arpeggio accompaniment. In searching for a more interesting mode of performance, we looked to contemporary settings of Ronsard's poetry, and in particular, settings by Adrian Le Roy. We discovered that the tune works with only minor adjustments to Le Roy's Passemeze harmonization and, since LeRoy set several other poems by Ronsard in a similar manner, we feel our setting is historically justifiable. Happy Christmas to all. Ron & Donna [1]www.mignarda.com __________________________________________________________________
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