Blue Heron & Les Délices
A More Subtle Art: The 14th-Century Avant-Garde
Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 5 PM
Evans Hall, New London (Connecticut College)
Presented by The Connecticut Early Music Festival
I. “Regarde com suy disposés”: The song speaks of itself
Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377)
Ma fin est mon commencement
Jacob de Senleches (fl. 1380s)
La harpe de mellodie
Baude Cordier (d. 1397/8?)
Tout par compas
II. The Rose
anonymous
Belle que rose vermeille
Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370-1412)
O rosa bella (instrumental)
Machaut
Rose, liz, printemps, verdure
III. Courtly Love / Circles of Influence
anonymous
Esperance qui en mon cuer s’embat
Machaut
Ay mi! dame de valour & Je vivroie liement (instrumental)
Machaut
En amer a douce vie
intermission
IV. Music & Mathematics
Johannes Suzoy (fl. 1380s)
Pictagoras, Jabol et Orpheus
Pierre de Molins (fl. mid-14th cent.)
De ce que foul pense (instrumental)
Matheus de Sancto Johanne (d. by 1391)
Sience n’a nul annemi
V. The Birds & the Bees (mostly birds)
Machaut
Tuit me penser (instrumental)
Senleches
En ce gracieux tamps joly
?Borlet (?Trebol) (fl. c. 1400)
Ma tre dol rosignol joly
anonymous
Je voy le bon tens venir
Blue Heron & Les Délices
Martin Near, voice
Jason McStoots, voice
Scott Metcalfe, fiddle & harp
Debra Nagy, recorders, douçaine, harp & voice
