Le Lay de Plour
Year:
2018
Text:
Guillaume Machaut
Instrumentation:
contralto, flute, violin, cello, piano
Duration:
40 minutes
Composition Type:
- Vocal Music
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Le Lay de Plour sets the poems by that name by Guillaume Machaut. The 12 poems in the set are typical medieval romance poetry – the first 6 poems speak of a woman’s love for her knight and the final 6 of her despair at his death in battle.
The melodies bear no reference to those composed by Machaut for these poems. When planning the music, I decided the better course was to compose new music, treating the words as just words for my own music.
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