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Thread #140608   Message #3237084
Posted By: Artful Codger
10-Oct-11 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
The Saboly carols book at Google Books (more easily browsed, IMO):
http://books.google.com/books?id=V4cQAAAAYAAJ

And some of these carols in an edition with English and French translations (but no Provençal lyrics):
Ten Provençal Carols: http://books.google.com/books?id=WIcQAAAAYAAJ
This is the second set only, thus only five of the ten, with two being variants of the same song. But among this set I caught sight of "Le jambe me fait mal," mentioned above, though under the name "Boots and Saddles/Boute Selle, à mon cheval." The tenth one, "Touro louro louro (le coq chante)" I recognize as "Tura lura lura lo gau canta," which was recorded by the Boston Camera on their Renaissance album; a fun piece.

The author's name is commonly modernized (or rendered in standard French) as Nicolas.