The French 'Voice of the People' set

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Jul 10 - 08:22 AM

I went to the Real Alternative site.

It's Windows-only.

I give up.

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 04:39 PM

Apropos Real Audio: Rod recommended "Real Alternative" to me and it certainly allows me to hear the MusTrad clips. Just Google for it.

Richard

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 03:37 PM

CAMSCO will be carrying the set---as soon as I can establish contact with an English-speaking distributor.

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 03:03 PM

I don't recall having signed up to any sort of premium account with Musicme, but I've just been able to listen to the whole 8min plus of the Breton ballad 'Skolvan' sung by the magnificent Marie-Josèphe Bertrand and I'm in England. Also I've been able to listen to the RealAudio clips on the MT website without RealPlayer taking over as default player.

But I bought the CD collection anyway last year on the strength of Rod's enthusiastic notice and I'd very strongly recommend it as a great resource for anyone interested in traditional songs and tunes. There is a tremendous diversity of styles that is fascinating to explore. Vic Smith gave it a great review in March 2010 fRoots magazine.

The texts for the songs can be found on the Fremeaux website linked to by Becky above, but it would be really helpful to have a resource like the Musical Traditions 'Voice of the People' Suite with more information about the songs, the tunes, the singers, the musicians and the traditions they represent.

Matthew

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 02:06 PM

Only thirty-second samples evidently available outside Francvia Musicmee, without signing up for a premium account. But that's still a way to hear some great stuff.

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Monique
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 01:43 PM

Here is the list of the songs. They're displayed in the same order as posted, i.e. the same order they can be found in the CDs.

CD 1 - BRETAGNE (BRITTANY)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 Approchez pour entendre la chanson d'une fille (French) LINK
2 Passet eo gouel ar rouaned (Breton) LINK
3 Apportez-nous à boire (French) LINK
4 Lavar din me 'ta paotr yaouank (Breton) LINK
5 À dix heures dans ces verts prés (French) LINK
6 Y a six épilles dans ma couronne (French) LINK
7 Il a passé par ici trois fileurs de laine (French) LINK
8 Skolvan, eskob Leon (Breton) LINK
9 La complainte de Saint Alexis (French) LINK
10 Savet d'ur plac'hig yaouank a barrez Sant Karadeg (Breton) LINK
11 Me merh Marie-Louise, un dé 'm es hé hollet (Breton & French) LINK
12 Merc'hed ag ar gêr-mañ nend eo ket istimet (Breton) LINK
13 En passant par le moulin blanc (French) LINK
14 Cueillir le lin, belle, cueillir le lin (French) LINK
15 Une pelle blanche (French) LINK
16 Marie-Margot s'endormit dans un pré (French) LINK
17 La mer qui nous balance le cul sur les cailloux (French) LINK
18 Halte-à-Patte, si tu continues (French) LINK
19 As-tu connu l'amie Gribouille (French) LINK
20 Petite couturière, ton métier ne va plus (French) LINK
21 C'était par un lundi, je m'en fus voir ma mie (French) LINK
22 Yannig Kongar a Bloulio (Breton) LINK
23 Je me suis engagé pour l'amour d'une fille (French) LINK
14 Na mag an-me d'an arme evel ma kontan monet (Breton) LINK
15 N'ev ket re uhel? (Breton) LINK


CD 2 - FRANCE DE L'OUEST (WESTERN FRANCE)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 Il est arrivé en Paris un vaisseau qui nous a surpris (French) LINK
2 Mais tout autour de ma patrie (French) LINK
3 Quand j' tiens la bride de mon cheval (French) LINK
4 Sur le pont d'Avignon, j'entends chanter la belle (French) LINK
5 La violette double (French) LINK
6 J'ai une pomme dans mon panier (French) LINK
7 Buvons à la santé du prince (French) LINK
8 Pille pille ma routoutou (French) LINK
9 Y'ations quatre à biner ma chatte (French) LINK
10 Au bout dou four a l'avait grand pour (French) LINK
11 Mon père bitait ma mère (French) LINK
12 Trou du cul de quoi te plains-tu (French) LINK
13 Tout l' long du bois j'ai baisé Angèle (French) LINK
14 J'ai usé mes souliers, belle (French) LINK
15 Y a plus que dix filles dans un pré (French) LINK
16 Nous voilà bien du monde ici (French) LINK
17 Je m'en fus trouver ma maîtresse (French) LINK
18 Un jour un jour m'y prend envie (French) LINK
19 Le roi Renaud (French) LINK
20 Les garçons sont trompeurs (French) LINK
21 Dedans la ville de Plaisantement (French) LINK
22 Ce sont trois galions d'Espagne (French) LINK


CD 3 - AUVERGNE & LIMOUSIN
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 Minuit vient de sonner (French) LINK
2 Le premeir jorn de mas nòças (Auvergnat Occitan & French) LINK
3 La demenam la nòstra nòvia (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
4 Adieu Privas petite ville (French) LINK
5 Sos le pont d'Orleans (Lemosin Occitan) LINK
6 Fai-lo cornard ma filha (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
7 Passant par Paris, vidant la bouteille (French) LINK
8 En mille huit cent vingt (French) LINK
9 Cinq sos per la chambriera (Lemosin Occitan) LINK
10 La passion de Jesus Crist (Lemosin Occitan) LINK
11 Rossignolet charmant, rossignolet sauvage (French) LINK
12 Para lo lop (Occitan) LINK


CD 4 - CENTRE (CENTER FRANCE)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 La belle s'en va au jardin des amours (French) LINK
2 Tes moutons ma bargère (French) (aka "Nous irons en Flandres") LINK
3 Rossignolet des bois (French) LINK
4 Gens de Courban qui avez du cœur (French) LINK
5 Et y en tout temps la galette est bonne (French) LINK
6 Du bon matin je m' suis levé (French) LINK
7 Au pays du Berry (French) LINK
8 On te raccourcira ton petit cotillon ma Jeannette (French) LINK
9 Payez donc, maman, payez donc (French) LINK
10 Habitants de tout âge (French) LINK
11 Les voulez-vous connaître, les enfants sans soucis ? (French) LINK


CD 5 - SUD-OUEST (SOUTH-WEST)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 De Paris dans Paris (French) LINK
2 I a pas de femnas pus aluradas (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
3 Me promenant le long d'un bois charmant (French) LINK
4 L'aiga de ròcha (Occitan) LINK
5 La calhe de la calhe (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
6 Cocut ! Ent as jagut ? (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
7 Lo cocut es mòrt (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
8 Mon père a des blancs moutons (French) LINK
9 Dijaus gras qu'a nau motons (Gascon Occitan) LINK
10 Qui t'a cargat la gala, Torrin? (Gascon Occitan) LINK
11 Enguan jo me soi maridat (Gascon Occitan) LINK
12 Era cançon de Grangèr (Gascon Occitan) (aka "Cantatz dab allegressa, aulhèrs de Bigalom") LINK
13 Se io sabiái volar (Gascon Occitan) LINK
14 L'autre jour en me promenant (Lengadocian Occitan & French) LINK
15 Sòm, sòm, vèni, vèni, vèni (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
16 De sur le pont de Nantes, allant me promener (French) LINK
17 Lectio epistolae (Lengadocian Occitan & Latin) LINK
18 Viva lo mestièr dels amolaires (Lengadocian Occitan) LINK
19 Còcòricò ! Qu'as tu pothet ? (Gascon Occitan) LINK
20 Enter la Ròcha e Cotràs (Gascon Occitan) LINK
21 Maudit sia l'amor (Gascon Occitan) LINK
22 Meltxor eta Mattin (Basque) LINK
23 Adios, izar ederra, adios izarra! (Basque) LINK
24 Sortu naiz Iparrean (Basque) LINK


CD 6 - MÉDITERRANÉE (MEDITERRANEAN COAST)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 Le rossignol de l'Amérique (French) LINK
2 Ma maire n'aviá qu'un anhèu (Vivaro-Alpine Occitan) LINK
3 D'ont vas sonhar bergèira (Vivaro-Alpine Occitan) LINK
4 Amusez-vous fillettes (French) LINK
5 Tout en me promenant (French) LINK
6 Pilhate-voi bêla 'qüelh maçolin (Mix of Occitan and Italic dialects) LINK
7 Je me suis fait z'une maîtresse (French) LINK
8 Commençons la semaine (French) LINK
9 Par mon chemin je rencontrais (French) LINK
10 Tutti mi chiamano bionda (Italian) LINK
11 Le lundi de la Pentecôte (French) LINK
12 Adieu paure Carnavàs (Occitan) LINK


CD 7 - ALPES, NORD, EST (ALPS. NORTH. EAST)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 J'ai fait une maîtresse (French) LINK
2 Dans notre village, ma charmante maman (French) LINK
3 Conscrits, égayons nos vingt ans (French) LINK
4 Les conscrits sont là (French) LINK
5 Le conscrit (French) LINK
6 Les conscrits de la Toussaint (French) LINK
7 Quand j'étais petite fille (French) LINK
8 C'était un plafonneur, d'une riche famille (French) LINK
9 Mè dze si eunna tsansôn (Franco-Provençal, aka Arpitan) LINK
10 Dans la cour d'un palais (French) LINK
11 Voici ce joli mois de mai (French) LINK
12 N-i ha fanga a hüse (Alsatian) LINK
13 En 'k gingen lestmaal aan het jagen uit (Flemish) LINK
14 Les cordonniers sont pires que des évêques (French) LINK
15 Jean Pansard n'a pas encore soupé / Djan Ponsôd n'a né co soupé (Walloon & French) LINK
16 Chant de quête 1 (Walloon) LINK
17 Chant de quête 2 (Walloon) LINK
18 Chant de quête 3 (Walloon) LINK
19 Là-haut, sur cette montagne (French) LINK
20 Du printemps lorsque dès l'aurore (French) LINK
21 Petit capitaine (French) LINK
22 Enfants, revelhatz-vos (Occitan) LINK
23 Pastré, dè dèlay l'ayo (Baylèro, lèro) (Occitan) LINK


CE 8 - CORSE (CORSICA)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 L'alcudina (Corsican) LINK
2 Vuleria chì la mio pelle (Corsican) LINK
3 Bríndisi (Corsican) LINK
4 Salute amati sposi (Corsican) LINK
5 Ni sentu una voci in piazza (Corsican) LINK
6 A morte di Filicone (Corsican) LINK
7 Suda sangue il Redentore (Corsican) LINK
8 Perdono, mio Dio (Corsican) LINK
9 Credo in unum Deum (Latin) LINK
10 Padre ("Corsicanized" Toscan) LINK
11 Induve hè pigliatu Romani (Corsican) LINK
12 Ola, ola, li bon boi (Corsican) LINK
14 O la ricchezza di la so mammuccia (Corsican) LINK
15 Ghjùnsimu ind'è Vincinsina (Corsican) LINK
16 Nun ti scurdà di mè ben'chè luntanu (Corsican) LINK
17 Dio vi salvi Regina (Corsican) LINK


CE 9 - FRANCE D'OUTRE MER (OVERSEAS FRANCE)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to 30" samples of all these songs on this Amazon page. The whole CD isn't available on YouTube so far.

1 Valé valé prétez-moi vos fusils (Reunionese Creole) LINK
2 O Namsido si la bi la bwar (Reunionese Creole) LINK
3 Ki pomm' d'amour? (Rodrigues Creole) LINK
4 Viré, bonswar madam, viré bonswar mésié (Rodrigues Creole) LINK
5 Compagnons de la Marjolaine (French) LINK
6 Iyaa iyaa a a a (Wayãpi) LINK
7 Manman mo gen ènmi (Guyanese Creole) LINK
8 Mariwòz-o ! (Martiniquese Creole) LINK
9 Notre armateur nous cherche (French) LINK
10 Quand Dieu naquit à Noël (French) LINK
11 Soulajé ! soulajé do a Katalina (Guadeloupean Creole) LINK
12 Par un samedi z'au soir m'en allant voir la belle (French) LINK
13 We bwaam nga Taaru (Native language from New Caledonia) LINK
14 Images from now and yesteryears in native languages from Wallis & Futuna LINK


CD 10 - FRANÇAIS D'AMÉRIQUE (AMERICA'S FRENCH)
(Leaflet)

You can listen to the whole CD here. You'll listen to music-only pieces that aren't listed below.

1 Story from Louisiana (French) LINK
2 J'ai fait l'amour chez l'onc Bab (Cajun French) LINK
3 Marguerite est dans sa chambre (French) LINK
4 Sur le Natchitoches, il y a z'une brune (Cajun French) LINK
5 Oh bonsoir Moreau (Cajun French) LINK
6 I Went to Market (English and Quebec French) LINK
7 N'av'nèn vèyu mi p'tit musicyin? (Walloon) LINK
8 Par derrière chez mon père (Quebec French) LINK
9 Les poutines dans l' potte (Quebec French) LINK
10 En arrière de chez mon père (Quebec French) LINK
11 L'est dans les temps du premier jour de l'an (American French) LINK
12 Par un dimanche au soir, en m'en allant veiller (Quebec French) LINK
13 Les petits Saint Pierre sont plus riches que les évêques (French) LINK
14 Derrière chez nous il y a un joli bocage (French) LINK
15 Nous sommes trente-trois (Canadian French) LINK
16 Allons à Lafayette (Cajun French) LINK
17 Nous sommes partis trois jeunes frères à l'école de Paris (French) LINK

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: brezhnev
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 01:11 PM

you can hear samples of all of the tracks on amazon.

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 01:10 PM

The Mustrad article is here (click). I did't have any trouble playing the RealAudio clips. I'm using Windows 7 with the free version of RealPlayer. You may have better luck if you download the clips, and then attempt to play them.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Anglo
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 12:50 PM

I haven't managed to play Rod's sound samples for some time, and I've been using the latest Mac version of the "official" Real Player app, the free one. I'm certainly not going to pay for their upgrade to test that out. What I have will not play them and Rod knows that, and has attempted to explain why he insists on still using that format. (Perhaps it does work on the PC version).

I do the recommend the French set. Lots of things here, some great singing, odd parade music, a lot of instrumentals, some of it quite weird. And lots of non-mainstream "French" from Corsica and former (maybe some current, my political geography isn't up to date) French colonies. I think I got it from the Fremaux site. I forget whether shipping was free or reasonable (to the US), but I thought it was a bargain.

If anyone wants to hear a specific track or two, PM me with an email address. The site does have a track listing.

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 11:25 AM

I sent an email to Rod Stradling, and got a rather unhelpful reply saying to google for the free RealPlayer application.

I am rather unwilling to do that, as I have used a few versions over the years and they were all an utter fucking nightmare, making themselves the default application for situations where they weren't wanted and displaying intrusive "pay up for the registered version" dialogs every time you wanted to listen to anything. I thought I might still have it on this machine (Intel Mac Mini, MacOS Tiger) but mercifully it seems to have got lost in an upgrade.

So I was hoping there might be a third-party app that can play this stuff with less hassle. VLC can't (it can handle most other audio formats); neither can Miro, iTunes, Spotify or Vox. Ideas?

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 05 Jul 10 - 09:20 AM

Lokks really interesting, Becky.

Thanks for the heads up.

There are many RealAudio clips in the article, which I couldn't get to work on my Mac, even with a freshly downloaded version of RealPlayer.

I couldn't get them to work in Windows either, for what it's worth.

Quite why Rod doesn't use mp3s is a mystery. RealAudio is pretty much out of date as far as I can tell.

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 11:33 PM

A more direct link to the page at the Fremeaux site: click

https://www.fremeaux.com/en/recherche?controller=search&s=Une+Anthologie+Des+Musiques+Traditionnelles

Subject: RE: The French 'Voice of the People' set
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 11:32 PM

Undoubtedly Dick Greenhaus of Camsco can get it for you; a web search also brings up CDRoots, which will special order it for $119 plus shipping, Borders online, too.

Subject: Une Anthologie des Musiques Traditionelles
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 30 Jun 10 - 11:22 PM

Une Anthologie des Musiques Traditionelles

Catching up on my Musical Traditions reading, I came on the review by Rod Stradling of this 10-cd set that has only gotten one passing mention here: Une Anthologie des Musiques Traditionelles, Frémeaux & Associés FA 5260.

Says Rod, "This is not so much a review as a brief overview of this fabulous 10-CD set of the traditional music of France ... a French Voice of the People, as its compiler, Guillaume Veillet, described it to me a few years ago when he had just received the go-ahead on the project."

The set divides the music up geographically
1. Bretagne
2. France de L'Ouest
3. Auvergne et Limousin
4. Centre France
5. Sud Ouest
6. Méditerranée
7. Alpes, Nord et Est
8. Corse
9. France d'Outre-Mer
10. Français d'Amérique

There are many RealAudio clips in the article, which I couldn't get to work on my Mac, even with a freshly downloaded version of RealPlayer. Bummer, because I don't think I'll be able to acquire this any time soon. But I may have to start saving my pennies.

Available at: www.audio-archives.com/en/catalogue/fiches/e_world_music_france_FA5260.htm for just €80 with free shipping worldwide. And you can find full details, track lists, etc at: www.fremeaux.com.

~ Becky in Tucson

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This link good in 2022: https://www.fremeaux.com/en/recherche?controller=search&s=Une+Anthologie+Des+Musiques+Traditionnelles

Also at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Une-Anthologie-Musiques-Traditionnelles/dp/B002HZCHUW