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Thread #45304   Message #3271905
Posted By: Monique
11-Dec-11 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: En marchant vers l'etable (French carol)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: En marchant vers l'etable (French carol)
The midi Joe posted last night is the tune you can find in "Trésor des Noëls provençaux avec musique et illustrés" collected by Denis Cassan, Editions Marcel Petit - Culture provençale et méridionale (1981). The carols have simple one-line-scores as the one I made the midi from. The book includes the carols by Saboly, the felibres (19th century Provençal poets), the "rèires" (older Provençal poets - "rèire" means ancestor/forebear), Notre Dame des Doms (late 1500's, mid 1600's -NDDD is Avignon's cathedral) and by Denis Cassan himself. Only 3 used ones can be found on sale at Amazon.fr at reasonable prices (€26.90 - 40 - 60.90; it costed €45 new). IMO it's worth having it for the Notre Dame des Doms carols that you can't find anywhere else as far as I'm aware. Saboly's are much better on the PDF Jim linked to that you can download for free. My intention was to make a NDDD thread with original lyrics, English (literal!!!) translations and midis but there're 62 of them, it's a lot of work and I haven't that much time right now.