Tourdion - Quand je bois du vin clairet - published by Attaignant

A drinking song for choir by Claude Gervaise published by Pierre Attaignant, sung by the dwsChorale. Images created during a Christmas eve extravaganza, with thanks to the photographic expertise, knowledge of middle French and excellent wine cellar of my Dad.

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[inusarno]

Why does she pronounce bois as boai (bué)? Is it pronounced differently in other regions of france or are they from other country?

Thanks

[dwsolo]

@inusarno This is the old pronunciation - the "wa" sound used to be "weh" in the time of Attaignant.

[pictorelle]

I have the feeling that this song speaks about the old invasion of Aquitaine by the british. Underneath the symbols: Le vin Clairet was in fact the first Bordeaux, in the opposit Anjou is the land of the french kings and after all Arbois is in the North-East of the Royaume de France, not far from Lorraine (Jeanne la Bonne Lorraine), we ear an encouragement "à bouter l'anglais (le gras jambon) hors de France". Funny, isn't it?!

[dwsolo]

@pictorelle Interestng theory...

[Petraphage]

To dwsolo : this song was composed by Claude Gervaise, Attaignant was a publisher, who invented a special technique for printing music tablatures and scores.

To Pictorelle : this interpretation is probably right, although the 100 year was against England was over at that time. But this war really left a trauma and that motto "bouter l'Anglois hors de France" has long reamained popular among French paesants...

[dwsolo]

@Petraphage Hi thanks for the info - I realised that later on but I'll change the info to reflect it now :-)

[pictorelle]

@dwsolo Thank you. It came to me after having sung that Tourdion many times, suddenly the links I am proposing to real historians became kind of obvious.

Speaking more precisely about the wines of Bordeaux I can bring here an info on what is the CLAIRET: it looks like a rosé but is NOT a rosé, so, be careful! Don't drink it like a light rosé!

The strong and well known red wines from Gironde came much later in history, with a "savoir-faire" imported from the Rhône valley wine named Hermitage.

[SloveintzWend]

I'm drinking red wine now, what a coincidence.

Besides things go round and round.

That's just amazing.

[stephaniewiehn]

Honnêtement je n'ai pas trouvé de meilleure version, dans laquelle on reconnaisse aussi bien toutes les voix.

[stephaniewiehn]

@frenchiecocorico1

Honnêtement je n'ai pas trouvé de meilleure version sur Youtube, dans laquelle on reconnaisse aussi bien toutes les voix.