Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.music.folk Subject: Searching for Medieval Song Message-ID: <2696@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 14:56:51 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.2696 Posted: Mon Jan 14 14:56:51 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:54:44 EST Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.music.classical:778 net.music.folk:56 I'm trying to find a recording of a medieval troubador's song which once I heard at an early music concert. The text of the song is printed in Poul Anderson's *The Star Fox*, but no title is given. The song, in French, concerns a King who gives orders for the most beautiful ladies to be paraded before him. He sees the most beautiful, and asks his loyal friend the Marquis who she is. "Sire, she is my wife." replies the Marquis. Eventually the Queen orders that the Marquise be poisoned with a bouquet of flowers, and there the song ends. The chorus is the French onomatapoetic for drumbeats, namely "rataplan, rataplan, rataplan-plan-plan." Does anybody recognize the song from this synopsis? If so, could you send me its name, and the names of any albums which contain performances of it? Thanks ever so. -- Elizabeth Hanes Perry UUCP: {decvax|linus|cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay