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- Title
Freynshe fare.
- Authors
Robinson, Richard
- Abstract
Nevertheless, the instrumental playing is very fine throughout the four discs (a good example being CD 4, track 15), even if the simplest moments - with Mauillon accompanied by a single harp or fiddle - are often the most enchanting and introspective. It is difficult for us to imagine what late medieval courtly society and its music would have looked like without the influence of France - something which is reflected in the Middle English term "Freynshe fare" (meaning, amongst other things, the enchanting effects of courtly eloquence) alongside Middle High German and Italian descriptions of cultivated learning and music-making "according to French customs" ("nach welschen sitten") or "in the French manner" ("a la francesca"). The various chansons, motets and conductus are grouped according to shared textual and musical interrelationships, and are sensitively performed by five singers with suave and delicate accompaniment (two fiddles, harp or rotta, plus occasional bells and percussion).
- Subjects
EARLY music; MOTETS; FRENCH music; WIND instruments; STRINGED instruments
- Publication
Early Music, 2023, Vol 51, Issue 1, p145
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/caac082