Raimbaut de Vaqueiras - Calenda maia

TROUBADOURS ART ENSEMBLE
dir. Gérard Zuchetto

Gérard Zuchetto, chant

"Calenda maia" means First Of May

pictures are taken from "CalendiMaggio Assisi "
http://www.aziendeumbre.it/html/viewer.php?idagri=512

Kalenda maya,
ni fuelhs de faya
ni chanz d'auzelh,
ni flors de glaya
non es que'm playa
pros domna guaya,
tro qu'un ysnelh
messatgier aya
del votre belh cors,
que'm retraya
plazer novelh
qu'amors m'atraya
e iaya e 'm traya vas vos,
Domna veraya;
e chaya de de playa 'l gelos
ans que'm n'estraya.

Ma bel'amia,
per Dieu non sia
que ja'l gelos
de mon dan ria,
que car vendria
sa gelosia,
si aitals
sos amantz partia;
qu'ieu ja joios
mais non seria,
ni jois ses vos
pro no'm tenria.
Tal via faria
qu'oms ja
mais no'm veiria,
cel dia
morria
Domna pros,
qu'ie'us perdria.


Com'er perduda
ni m'er renduda,
Domna, s'enanz
non l'ai aguda?
Que drutz ni druda
non es per cuda;
mas quant amantz
en drut se muda.
L'onors es granz
que'l n'es creguda,
e'l bels semblanz
fai far tal bruda;
que nuda tenguda
no'us ai
ni d'als vencuda,
Volguda,
Cresuda,
vos ai ses autr'ajuda.

Tart m'esjauzira,
pos ja'm partira,
Bels Cavaliers,
de vos ab ira,
qu'alhors no's vira
mos cors, ni'm tira
mos desiriers
qu'als non desira;
qu'a lauzengiers
sai qu'abelira,
Domna, qu'estiers
non lur garira:
tals vira
sentira
mos danz,
qui'ls vos grazira,
que'us mira
cossira
cuidanz, don cors sospira.

Tant gent comensa,
Part totas gensa,
Na Beatritz, e pren creissensa
Vostra valensa;
Per ma credensa,
De pretz garnitz vostra tenensa
E de bels ditz, senes failhensa;
De faitz grazitz tenetz semensa;
Siensa,
Sufrensa
Avetz e coneissensa;
Valensa
Ses tensa
Vistetz ab benvolensa.

Domna grazida,
quecs lauz' e crida,
vostra valor qu'es abelida
e qui'us oblida,
pauc li val vida
per qu'ie'us azor,
Domn'eissermida;
Quar per gencor vos
ai chausida
e per melhor
de pretz complida,
blandida,
servida
genses qu'Erecs Enida
bastida,
finida,
n'Engles, ai l'estampida.

you can also watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGvldjFoPw8
and for 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQHIL7Culw

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Raimbaut
• de
• Vaqueiras
• Calenda
• maia
• TROUBADOURS
• ART
• ENSEMBLE
• Gérard
• Zuchetto

[LordFearsage]

Awful pronounciation

[theprof1958]

@LordFearsage

This song is in Provencal and was written about one thousand years ago. Who can say how was the pronounce like and how it sounded?

Besides, Mister Zuchetto is one of the best interpreter of Troubadour's music

[maurojav30]

la lengua es OCCITANO!!!!! la primera lengua literaria después del latín, pero ésta proviene del latín...No hay cómo las lenguas latinas...

[Maricielo9000]

TROVADOR!!! ..BUENÍSIMO

[wannabedesi]

Lol. I played this song for my boyfriend, who's from India, and he thought, because of the complex rthym and timing that it was from West Bengal! I said "No...the guy who wrote it got the beat from the Crusades in the Middle East" Cracked me up.

[ghostdog7575]

GOOD!!!

Finally One with the REAL music! The REAL intruments of the time and a good rendition of the probable medieval pronunciation of the "trobadoric koiné" occitan...

Zuchetto is the best at this: he is a good researcher and the best example of trobaire though he often chose the VULGATA version instead of the philologically best LECTIO...