Musicologists/Early Music Geeks

[SplatterTone]

I KNEW I had this somewhere. After testing CD after CD, I finally dug through the vinyl to what, in the back of mind, something was telling me I should have started all along. There, on the Medieval Roots album done by the New York Pro Musica, is the piece; the first on the album; listed on the back cover as
Virelai: Douce dame jolie
apparently attributed to Guillaume de Machaut on the album cover. But so many of these tunes were of annonymous origin, I would be hesitant to call Machaut the composer without an authortative confirmation.
The album is Decca DL79438
It is fair to say it is of somewhat legendary status since it was right at the beginning of the resurgence of early music, and is THE album that kindled an interest in early music for many back then -- me being one of them.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Here's some pretty convincing evidence that it is indeed Machaut (from http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vladislav/f ... 2small.gif)

Nice work, SplatterTone!

[dwaskew]

I need help identifying a French carol \ I cannot remember any of the words, but the tune is wonderful. I am looking for the full French title,

I KNEW I had this somewhere. There, on the Medieval Roots album done by the New York Pro Musica,
Virelai: Douce dame jolie
I would be hesitant to call Machaut the composer without an authortative confirmation.

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Here's some pretty convincing evidence that it is indeed Machaut

ahem.

GEEKS

[dwaskew]

I need help identifying a French carol \ I cannot remember any of the words, but the tune is wonderful. I am looking for the full French title,

I KNEW I had this somewhere. There, on the Medieval Roots album done by the New York Pro Musica,
Virelai: Douce dame jolie
I would be hesitant to call Machaut the composer without an authortative confirmation.

.

Here's some pretty convincing evidence that it is indeed Machaut

ahem.

GEEKS

wait. no.

let me think.








yup.








Geeks.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

[SplatterTone]

And because y'all Mississippians love guns and are generally a red state (God bless Trent Lott), I unwrapped the carefully preserve DiscWasher, got out the 30-plus year old bottle of genuine D3 DiscWasher fluid, put the vinyl record on the Panasonic Direct Drive turntable with a Stanton 681EEE cartridge, turned on the Tascam CD-RW5000 recorder which hasn't been used since my Grandmother's funeral some years ago, recorded the track onto a CD-RW, put it on the computer, ripped it to WAV, edited out some of the junk with Audacity, burned it to CD, ripped it to variable bit rate WMA, and uploaded it.

I bought album at the Goshen College Bookstore in Goshen, IN while I was still in high school. It got played a lot on a RCA console phonograph; and those phonographs came with ceramic cartridges and not-so-fine styli. So there is going to be some impurity to the sound.

Here it is folks. A cut from Medieval Roots by the New York Pro Musica. This is truly hallowed ground. Purify yourself before listening to this. I left in the lead in and lift off noise so you all will get that true vinyl experience.
http://t-recs.net/mpegs/tubenet/douce_dame_jolie.wma

[Donn]

ripped it to variable bit rate WMA, and uploaded it.

Alas, proprietary format that isn't any use on my computer, but speaking of Guillaume du Machaut, I remember that back in the '80s someone decided to rate the best composers ever, and Guillaume du Machaut was Number 1! That's got to be Phelpsian, eh? best composer of all time - better than winning four tuba auditions in a row.

[Uncle Buck]

There is a reason for my love of this tune

Of course you have to share.

[SplatterTone]

Alas, proprietary format that isn't any use on my computer

I know that "out there" are converter programs that can take a wma and make a mp3. There must be some TNFJ member who can post a link.

[SplatterTone]

mp3 format for those that require it.
http://t-recs.net/mpegs/tubenet/douce_dame_jolie.mp3