Medieval Music Days 2022
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LA QUÊTE OCCITANE!
Music of the Troubadours, 12th-13th centuries
For the 2022 edition of our Medieval Music Days, we focus on one of the first and most influential secular literary-musical movements of the European Middle Ages. The Troubadours, including their female counterparts the Trobairitz, flourished from the early 12th to the early 13th centuries in what is today Southern France, but which at the time was a separate land with its own vibrant and distinctive culture known as Occitania.
An immersive weekend in the fascinating musical world of long ago! Concerts, workshops, and a banquet are on offer, led by passionate and renowned musicians, gifted in transmitting the breadth of their expertise with generosity and enthusiasm. An experience for music-lovers and musicians and singers of all levels, for those who wish to participate actively or simply to listen and discover the beauty and lively spirit of medieval music.
Friday October 21, 8:00 PM
Concert "Mots d'amour et maux croisés!"
The Troubadours refined the rules of romantic poetry for generations thereafter. They called it fin amors, courtly love. The beloved was described as perfect, but usually her or his love was unrequited, and the resulting distress motivated the poet to sing. Poetry and music also mixed with the politics of the time, as crusading culture took hold of Europe. While the original focus of the crusades was Jerusalem, by the early 13th century, crusades were being launched against Christians considered to be heretical. The most famous of these, the Albigensian Crusade, heralded the end of the troubadour era as Occitania was captured by the French and its culture was forced into decline. Reverdies Montréal presents a concert highlighting the fervency of love, longing, and destruction that permeated the lyrics of the troubadours. Their culture left a legacy that lived long after Occitania’s downfall.
Ensemble Reverdies Montréal: Rebecca Bain (voice, vielle, symphonia), Femke Bergsma (voice, vielle, flutes), Bruno Cognyl-Fournier (lute gittern), Alain Vadeboncoeur (voice); with guest Aziz Daouni (oud)
Saturday October 22, 9:30 AM-5:00 PM:
Workshop for all with Reverdies Montréal
Discover the music of the Troubadours in our participatory workshop led by Rebecca Bain, Femke Bergsma and Alain Vadeboncoeur. Musicians and singers of all levels, bring whatever instruments you have, your voices or just your ears -- all are welcome!
Saturday October 22nd 5:30 PM:
Concert: "Dejosta'ls breus jorns e'ls lonc sers"
COMTESSA follows the many stages of love from joy to despair through the lovesick poems of the Troubadours, presented and sung by Gabrielle Cloutier. Intertwined with these love poems, Comtessa will play instrumental dances and estampies from 13th century France.
Ensemble Comtessa: Isabelle Douailly-Backman (vielle), Gabrielle Cloutier (voice, symfonia), Jérémie de Pierre (flutes), Antoine Chabot-Couture (lute)
Saturday October 22 6:30-10:00 PM:
Medieval banquet and dance for all! SOLD OUT, SORRY!
ACQ and CAMMAC members: $5 off package. Use promotional code ACQCAMMAC.
This edition of the Medieval Music Days is a collaboration with Montréal's Bourgie Hall.
Ticket holders will also receive a promotional code towards a 40% discount when purchasing tickets for Diabolus in musica's concert on Sunday October 23 at 2:30 PM: "Un nouveau printemps du monde"
LA QUÊTE OCCITANE!
Music of the Troubadours, 12th-13th centuries
For the 2022 edition of our Medieval Music Days, we focus on one of the first and most influential secular literary-musical movements of the European Middle Ages. The Troubadours, including their female counterparts the Trobairitz, flourished from the early 12th to the early 13th centuries in what is today Southern France, but which at the time was a separate land with its own vibrant and distinctive culture known as Occitania.
An immersive weekend in the fascinating musical world of long ago! Concerts, workshops, and a banquet are on offer, led by passionate and renowned musicians, gifted in transmitting the breadth of their expertise with generosity and enthusiasm. An experience for music-lovers and musicians and singers of all levels, for those who wish to participate actively or simply to listen and discover the beauty and lively spirit of medieval music.
Friday October 21, 8:00 PM
Concert "Mots d'amour et maux croisés!"
The Troubadours refined the rules of romantic poetry for generations thereafter. They called it fin amors, courtly love. The beloved was described as perfect, but usually her or his love was unrequited, and the resulting distress motivated the poet to sing. Poetry and music also mixed with the politics of the time, as crusading culture took hold of Europe. While the original focus of the crusades was Jerusalem, by the early 13th century, crusades were being launched against Christians considered to be heretical. The most famous of these, the Albigensian Crusade, heralded the end of the troubadour era as Occitania was captured by the French and its culture was forced into decline. Reverdies Montréal presents a concert highlighting the fervency of love, longing, and destruction that permeated the lyrics of the troubadours. Their culture left a legacy that lived long after Occitania’s downfall.
Ensemble Reverdies Montréal: Rebecca Bain (voice, vielle, symphonia), Femke Bergsma (voice, vielle, flutes), Bruno Cognyl-Fournier (lute gittern), Alain Vadeboncoeur (voice); with guest Aziz Daouni (oud)
Saturday October 22, 9:30 AM-5:00 PM:
Workshop for all with Reverdies Montréal
Discover the music of the Troubadours in our participatory workshop led by Rebecca Bain, Femke Bergsma and Alain Vadeboncoeur. Musicians and singers of all levels, bring whatever instruments you have, your voices or just your ears -- all are welcome!
Saturday October 22nd 5:30 PM:
Concert: "Dejosta'ls breus jorns e'ls lonc sers"
COMTESSA follows the many stages of love from joy to despair through the lovesick poems of the Troubadours, presented and sung by Gabrielle Cloutier. Intertwined with these love poems, Comtessa will play instrumental dances and estampies from 13th century France.
Ensemble Comtessa: Isabelle Douailly-Backman (vielle), Gabrielle Cloutier (voice, symfonia), Jérémie de Pierre (flutes), Antoine Chabot-Couture (lute)
Saturday October 22 6:30-10:00 PM:
Medieval banquet and dance for all! SOLD OUT, SORRY!
ACQ and CAMMAC members: $5 off package. Use promotional code ACQCAMMAC.
This edition of the Medieval Music Days is a collaboration with Montréal's Bourgie Hall.
Ticket holders will also receive a promotional code towards a 40% discount when purchasing tickets for Diabolus in musica's concert on Sunday October 23 at 2:30 PM: "Un nouveau printemps du monde"
