Guillaume de Machaut - Puis qu'en oubli (18/25) (rondeau)

Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelled Machault (c. 1300 April 1377), was an important Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers on whom significant biographical information is available.

Puis qu'en oubli (rondeau)
Rogers Covey-Crump, Mark Padmore and Paul Hillier

Machaut was "the last great poet who was also a composer," in the words of the scholar Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Well into the 15th century, Machaut's poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets, including Geoffrey Chaucer.

Machaut was and is the most celebrated composer of the 14th century (see Medieval music). He composed in a wide range of styles and forms and his output was enormous. He was also the most famous and historically significant representative of the musical movement known as the ars nova.

Machaut was especially influential in the development of the motet and the secular song (particularly the lai and the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai and ballade). Machaut wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer, and influenced composers for centuries to come.

The rondeau (French; plural form rondeaux) was a Medieval and early Renaissance musical form, based on the contemporary popular poetic rondeau form. It is distinct from the 18th century rondo, though the terms are likely related. With the virelai and the ballade, it is one of the three formes fixes of French music and poetry in the 14th and 15th centuries.

The rondeau form calls for a rigid pattern of repetition of verse and refrain, following the evolving rhyme-scheme of the poetic form, ranging from eight lines to as many as 21. The most commonly used form is ABaAabAB, where capital letters refer to repetition of the (two-part) refrain text and music while lowercase letters refer to repetition of music alone with a new text. Early rondeaux are usually found as interpolations in longer narrative poems, and separate monophonic musical settings survive. While early poetic rondeaux are often in mixed meter, this is rare in later rondeaux set to music.

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[GeoAl09]

i think the original version is better, this version kind of ruins the song

[bartje11]

@GeoAl09 so what is the original version?

[MichaelHTillman]

Thanks very much for these. I looked on your channel but could not find a specific playlist, seems you have several of these uploaded... are they compiled in one spot somewhere?

[bartje11]

@MichaelHTillman Thanks for this comment. I indeed intended to create a playlist and will do that right now.

[thaiguy20fromla]

I wish my ex-girlfriend would listen to this. And understand it...

[supurgirl]

@robdowling123 this song was written by Machaut about his 19 year old girlfriend. He was too old for her (60) and so he wrote this song after their break up. Puis qu'en oubli means "Since I am Forgotten by You" Lyrics- "Since I am forgotten by you, sweet friend, I say farewell to joy and a life of love. Ill fated was the day I placed my love in you, Since I am forgotten by you, sweet friend. But what I have promised you I will maintain, which is that I shall never have any other lover."

[gamefreak9210]

@GeoAl09 Please tell me your trolling.

[MortimerRouge]

@GeoAl09 What original version? Every version I've heard sounds like this.

[adognamedsally]

I love the little minor-ish chords at the end of each phrase.

[robdowling123]

@supurgirl

Hiya :) When I said 'Hail Mary' I was referring to C12-14 Île de France and the Gothic cathedrals constructed by la francmaçonnerie, all dedicated to Notre Dame. The Cult of the Virgin Mary within Western Christandom reached its Zenith in medieval France, and is connected to the constellation of Virgo, just as Jesus is connected to the constellation of the fish, Pisces.

Ce morceau par Machaut est plutôt une chanson d'amour personnelle, comme vous expliquée.

[A7XLicksMyNuts]

@supurgirl thanks for the info.