Color
Around the 1250s in Paris, the author Jean de Garlande mentions in his treaty De mensurabili musica, the new vocal polyphonies, created at the end of the 12th century in the cathedral of Notre-Dame. He tells the concrete experience of this new musical practice around which a true aesthetic of emotion and repetition developed itself. By taking an interest in the phenomenon of sound itself, he evoques the different techniques used by singers while performing polyphony. It is for this purpose that he mentions the latin phrases “color” and “colores”: “Color is the beauty of sound or the auditory phenomenon by which the sense of hearing gives pleasure”.
Simon-Pierre Bestion
Concept, arrangements, conductor and keyboard
LA TEMPETE
1 vocalist, 6 instrumentalists
Chant vieux-romain (xithcentury)
Véritas mea
carlo gesualdo (1566-1613)
Tristis est anima mea
perotin le grand (c.1160-c.1230)
Deus misertus, Mundus vergens
Hayne Van ghizeghem (c.1445-c.1497) / johannes Tinctoris (c.1435-1551) / alexandre agricola (c.1446-1506) / josquin desprez (c.1450-1521)
De tous biens plaine
Thomas preston (c.1500-c.1563)
Upon la mi re
John taverner (c.1490-1545) / john blitheman (c.1525-1591) / john bull (c.1562-1628) / christopher tye (c.1500-c.1572)
In nomine
leonin (c.1150-c.1210)
Benedicamus Domino
anonymous (xvithcentury))
My lady carey's dompe
Gilles binchois (c.1400-1460)
Triste plaisir
conrad paumann (c.1409-1473)
Mit ganczem willen
josquin desprez (c.1450-1521)
Parfons regrets, Petite camusette
