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| 4.5 superb | musichub | September 6th 21 |
Easily the most famous of Machaut's songs, "Douce Dame Jolie" (English: "sweet, lovely
lady") is a prime example of a virelai - one of the three formes fixes that dominated
French poetry/music in the fourteenth century. Machaut's usage of "courtly love" imagery is
strong here, paired with a beautiful minor-key melody. Pinpointing the performance practices
of this music is difficult, but given the piece's secular roots, we can assume that the
singer (or singers, as the case may be) was accompanied by at least one instrument, and
perhaps an entire ensemble of instrumentalists.
Ars Antiqua de Paris (1974): https://open.spotify.com/track/1nnhBhWuPoq9q8Ezt2SM9R?
si=J1DBvET1S8iiRhlREDghew&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1
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