CAROL
MeF 1119 : Oyez, honorables bourgeois (God rest you merry, gentlemen). Traditional english carol arranged by Bernard Lallement. English and french texts. More about Bernard Lallement
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The music of this song is totally baroque, even in its lyrics. Its "peasant" character is in the words and certain clumsy and almost caricatured French expressions of what was considered to speak of the countryside ("je gaussions", "dieu marcy"...
Music composed by Sébastien de Brossard and published in 1691 in a collection of serious and drinking songs. Windward the Estandars, Flags, Signs, Colonels and Soldiers, Colonels and Soldiers, Lieutenants, Captains. With the glass in hand, the...
Sébastien de Brossard, while being a pre-sold vicar and chapel master of the cathedral of Strasbourg (according to the information published in the header of his collection of serious and drinking tunes, this, under the initials M. Br VP. E. MDC....