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Two polyphonic lais
Uniform Title
Je ne cesse de prier
Title
Two polyphonic lais [sound recording] / Machaut.
Published
London : Oiseau-Lyre, 2008, p1983.
Physical Description
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
"Most of Machaut's lais are monophonic ... [the present performers chose two ... that include polyphony. [The 1st] is a single line in the manuscript, "but ... [as Hoppin] pointed out ... successive sections of the melody can sound together ... so [the] performance is in two-voice polyphony throughout ... only one voice sung, the other performed on an instrument"--Notes, p. 4. The 2nd lay "[has] just one voice singing the words, while the other two voices are vocalized [without words]..."--Notes, p. 4.
Compact disc.
Originally issued on analog disc DSDL 705.
Program notes about the recording by David Fallows in English, French & German and vocal texts in Old French with English translation (by Nigel Wilkins) inserted in container.
Recorded in London in Jan. 1982.
Variant and related titles
Polyphonic lais
Polyphonic lais.
Format
Audio
Language
French, Old (ca. 842-1400)
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2009
Performers
Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor soloist ; Paul Elliott & Andrew King, tenors ; Medieval Ensemble of London (Robert Cooper, fiddle & rebec, Peter Davies, psaltery & harp, Timothy Davies, gittern & lute). Directed by the Davies.
Contents
Let lay de la fonteinne [= Je ne cesse de prier] (27:27)
Un lay de consolation [= Pour ce que plus proprement] (21:24).
Issue number
478 0026 Oiseau-Lyre
DSDL 705 Oiseau-Lyre
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