Inserted by Jan Frans Willems in his collection of "Oude Vlaemsche Liederen" (Flemish songs old - traditional), published in 1848.
This music, whose melody is written in the Gregorian mode of D, according to the Credo of the Duplex Mass, is...
Gilles Bracquet (15 ..- 1559) composer who worked in Ypres, probably, in Aire sur la Lys and Notre-Dame de Paris. He is the author of masses, motets and style song called "Parisian" (song gallant, courteous and pictorial).
Ypres is a city in West...
This drinking song is in 3 parts, including the middle part written in round. It includes several verses evoking the dread of the drinker, but also making fun of doctors and other "serious" occupatons but all also drinkers ...
A traditional song from Flanders:
I saw Cecilia coming along a stream.
I saw Cécilia coming with her hands full of flowers.
She also saw her shepherd, the shepherd Florian,
Who was grazing his sheep along the same path.
Cecilia began...
MeF 505PDF - Claudin de Semisy : Ceux de Picardie - easy and lively Renaissance song.
This earthy and joyful drinking song is very simple and easy to remember. Halfway between Renaissance and Middle Ages music, it celebrates the ability of Piacrds...
Thérouanne is a city close to Saint-Omer which housed a convent of which today only a few traces remain. Monks of the abbey sometimes knew how to break certain vows ...
From DU CROC, we know very little. At the same time, an editor, printer DU...
Here is the story of a Picard soldier, subject of Maximilian, Duke of Austria - the grandfather of Charles V - who also reigned over Flanders.
The Picards wish to reconquer Burgundy annexed by Louis the XIth following the marriage of Marie de...
A variation between jazz and contemporary music, on the first lines of the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony.
Hymnus refers to the European Anthem but only keeps a short extract (Freude schöner Götterfunken ...) and uses the onomatopoeias of...
