Printemps des plaisirs au Moye-Age

Ensemble: Perceval & Sanacore Album: Printemps des plaisirs au Moye-Age: Lyrique courtoise XIIIème Siècle Video: Livre de la chasse (XIVth cent.) • Printemps des plaisirs is a musical evocation of a spring day in May in the Middle Ages. In feudal times spring gave rise to all sorts of popular celebrations (popular » in the broadest sense of the term). Such fétes de mai were obviously associated with love, amusement and dancing. Many courtly works were devoted to the subject. The troubadours of Southern France and, more especially, the trouvères of Northern France (non-clerical intellectuals) were often inspired by the exuberance of nature at that time of year. The chansons de mai (‘May songs’) take many forms, including dances, reverdies, motets and pastourelles. They are all descriptive in character and inspired by popular and rural subjects. In this they differ very clearly from the rest of the courtly repertoire, which is genera