Les Chansons de la France

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: English Jon
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 11:32 AM

I've got one of their albums somewhere...

EJ

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 11:07 AM

Quelle joie, d'autres francophones! Et qui ecoutent Malicorne, I didn't know anyone else had ever heard of them... Are they on CD en France?

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: GUEST,Michael Batory
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 09:31 AM

Malcolm,

Re: Le Mai de Clerieux

Thankyou so much, I'm really grateful to you. I obviously missed your answer first time around.

All the best,

Michael.

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 09:03 AM

Michael: your question was answered last time you asked!  See:  Le Mai de Clerieux

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: English Jon
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 06:18 AM

1. Lyr req: "Bergeres si tu m'aime" anyone? Please?

2. Frank Dobbins's Oxford book of French Chanson is a pretty good resource. Loads of stuff from Attaignant, Sermissy, Gombert, Mouton etc...

EJ

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: GUEST,michael batory
Date: 21 Sep 01 - 04:16 AM

I've been looking for the lyrics of an old song from the Drome region entitled " Le Mai de Clerieux ". Can anyone help? [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: John P
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 09:08 PM

We do a lot of French folk songs, and I have listened to tons of them over the years, but not being concerned about musical scholarship I've never made a study of them. I'm going to a big hurdy-gurdy festival tomorrow, so I'll probably be playing French dance tunes all weekend.

Some recorded sources:
Malicorne, the first five albums or so.
Lo Jai
La Bamboche
Maluzerne
Melusine
Serge Laine and Isla Ross
Gabriel and Marie Yacoub
Telynor (my band)

Some books:
Chansons de la Mer by Gerard Carreau (Les Editions Ouvrieres)
Chansons de France by Marcel Vigneras (D. C. Heath & Company)
The Gambit Book of French Folk Songs by Elizabeth Poston and Paul Arma (Gambit Incorporated)
Songs of France by Jerry Silverman (Mel Bay)
Sixty Folksongs of France by Julien Tiersot (Oliver Ditson Company)
La France Qui Chant by Bernard Fuller (Heinemann Educational Books, Ltd)
Anthologie des Chants Populaires Francais by Joseph Canteloube (Durand & Cie)

John Peekstok

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: Amos
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 08:29 PM

The few French folksogs I know are pretty standard:

Chevaliers de la Table Ronde
Perrine Etais Servante
Aupres de ma Blonde
A La Claire Fontaine
Les Bouchees A La Reine (really dirty)
plus a few more modern numbers like Georges Brassens and a couple of Francois Hardy's tune which don't qualify as folk, I guess:

Le Petit Cheval Blanc
Monsieur le President
Ton Meilleur Ami
Je Veux Qu'el'qu'un Qui M'Aime

Maybe one or two others tucked in the dustier back corners of memory.

Amos

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 07:34 PM

Staying within the idiom, pucelage = maidenhead.

Subject: RE: Les Chansons de la France
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 05:45 PM

I once sang "A la Rochelle" to a french folklorist
she recognised the tune but couldn't make out the words
What is the nearest equivalent French accent to Black Country? (Not Birmingham to those unfamiliar with UK parochialisms)
Still, she thought the tune was really a dance tune from the Massif Central so for my impertinence I had to sing it for kiddies to dance to in the afternoon.
And she still couldn't make out the words, (owr kid).
Good job too, if the kiddies had followed the raunchy words to the shanty I would have been in trouble.
what is a pucelage by the way?

Subject: Les Chansons de la France
From: GUEST,Doc Rock
Date: 20 Sep 01 - 03:01 PM

I would like to hear from people who are researching continental French folk music as well as those who are simply interested in it. I do research (and am a big fan of) on Cajun and Creole music as well as the French music of the Upper Mississippi Valley, in particular songs associated with Mardi Gras and Guignolee. I have conducted a moderate amount of comparative research on French Canadian folk songs (Mardi Gras, Mi-Careme, Guignolee and La Chandeleur), but far less so for France.

J'connais Francaise 'Cadien. Ca fait, si t'as besoin, tu peut ecrire en Francaise, mais j'su pas au courant.