Under der Linden (Walther von der Vogelweide)

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  • (Posted 2021-04-23)  CPDL #64182:   
Editor: Richard Mix (submitted 2021-04-23).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 34 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The rhythmic mode i (and "tandaradei" solution) is suggested in Marrocco & Sandon: The Oxford Anthology of Medieval Music (1977), whose underlay I have revised. Duple subdivision is of course also viable.

General Information

Title: Under der Linden
Larger work: (En mai au douz tens nouvel)
Composer: Walther von der Vogelweide
Lyricist: Walther von der Vogelweide
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: solo voice

Genre: SecularChansonMinneliede

Languages: Middle High German, French
Instruments: A cappella


Description: No tune has been transmitted with Walther's text, but its parallels with the anonymous En Mai au douz tens nouvel are suggestive of a contrafact, even if the "tandaradei"'s appear to have been omitted.

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French.png French text

En mai au douz tens nouvel,
Que raverdissent prael,
Oï sor un arbroisel,
chanter le rosignolet:
Saderaladon! tant bon fet
dormir lez le buissonet.

Si com g’estoie pensis,
Lez le buissonet m’assis:
Un petit m’i endormi
au douz chant de l’oiselet.
Saderaladon! tant bon fet
dormir lez le buissonet.

Au resveillier que je fis
A l’oisel criai merci
Qu’il me doint joie de li: s’en serai plus jolivet.
Saderaladon! tant bon fet dormir lez le buissonet.

Et quant je fui sus levez,
Si conmenz a citoler
Et fis l’oiselet chanter devant moi el praelet.
Saderaladon! tant bon fet dormir lez le buissonet.

Li rosignolez disoit:
par un pou qu’il n’enrajoit,
du grant duel que il avoit, que vilains l’avoit oï.
Saderaladon! tant bon fet dormir lez le buissonet.