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Escapade Concert - Voix et Route Romane Festival

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    laReverdie

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Knights, Ladies, and Sparrowhawks This program is a narrative journey through the most important musical sources of the 13th and 14th centuries, in which the music bears witness to the ideas, traditions, and secrets contained in the texts and musical genres that circulated in the castles and courts of Europe. Chivalry constituted the ethical model of the European nobility and reflected the values of feudal piety. The poetics of courtly love, a direct consequence of chivalric values in literature and art, manifests itself in devotion to a mysterious lord who is none other than the beloved woman. Finally, the imagination abounds with animals, bestiaries reach their zenith, and the musical repertoire is extremely rich in madrigals, hunting songs, and Italian ballads, as well as French virelais, whose lyrics evoke sparrowhawks, eagles, cuckoos, sheep, and hunting dogs.

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