Duo Corvi and Friends

Bel ami, Alamanda

Return of the international award-winning ensemble, Duo Corvi, to the EMSI stage, with Occitan and Galician music from the 13th Century.

The trobairitz, like their male troubadour counterparts, were noble poet-musicians who wrote and performed within Occitan court life during the late 12th and 13th centuries. In contrast to the trobairitz, the joglar were musicians who came from outside a noble background. Early Galician joglar forms include the cantiga de amigo (‘friend song’), a type of lyric poetry rooted in female-voiced song. Duo Corvi is delighted to present this repertoire in Bel ami, Alamanda in collaboration with their brilliant friends and guest musicians Ben, Doug, and Arian. Enjoy their re-imagining of this very early music.

Performers:
Julie Ryning, voice
Katelyn Clark, orgnetto
Ben Grossman, vielle à roue (hurdy gurdy)
Douglas Hensley, gittern & vihuela
Arian Aminalroaya, percussion

Program

1. A chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
Comtessa de Dia (early 13th century)
2. S’ie us quier cosselh, bel’ ami’ Alamanda
Alamanda (fl. early 13th century) & Giraut de Bornelh (c.1138–1215)
3. Rosa das rosas
Cantiga X from the Cantigas de Santa Maria
anon (mid to late 13th century)

Intermission

4. Seven cantigas d’amigo of the Martim Codax:
i. Ondas do mar de Vigo
ii. Mandad’ey comigo
iii. Mia irmana fremosa treydes comigo
iv. Ay Deus, se sab’ora meu amigo
v. Quantas sabedes amar amigo
vi. Eno sagrad’ en Vigo
vii. Ay ondas que eu vin veer
Martim (fl. early 13th century)