Mes Pas Semez - Renaissance French Song
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Instrumentation by Tommaso Tarsi, vocals & arrangement by Farya Faraji. This is a 16th century French song arranged by Adrian Le Roy, a renowned music publisher, composer and lute player of the 1500's. I use the term arranged, since this melody is found in many different variations of the era, such as the song Pavana con su Glosa from Spain, bu Antonio de Cabezón. It seems that this melodic formula was a common one in the era, a form of early Follia found in different iterations.
This song is a perfect encapsulation of what defines early modern music: a polyphonic, multi-part structure in which four independent melodic lines move in parallel in order to create harmony. At this stage of European music, we see the rise of modern, classical, tonal harmony that still defines the bulk of modern Western music. One of the individual lines, for example, moves in parallel thirds in relation to the main voice, something we're very used to now and would have been completely alien to the French of the 1100's. For more information on how Western European harmony developed, you can watch my in depth video essay on Medieval Organum and its rise into tonal harmony through the centuries: • Medieval Organum : The...
Tommaso, an early music expert, plays the theorbo, two different lutes, and a baroque guitar, and I also added a cornetto, a Renaissance era reed instrument with a texture similar to that of a trumpet, as well as a period trumpet. I chose to sang this primarily in falsetto, a vocal posture that was quite usual at the time for men to sing with.
Lyrics in Early Modern French:
Mes pas semez et loing allez
Par diuers solitaires lieux:
Sont de pensers entremellez,
Qui rendent humides mes yeux,
Et tant plus i’ay ma voix haucée,
Tant moins ie me sens exaucée,
Et si ne sçay quand i’aurai mieux.
Je n’ai tenu mes pas si chers,
Ny mon esprit tant endormy,
Que par montaignes et rochers
Ie n’aye cherche mon amye:
L’oeil au guet, l’aureille ententiue,
La parolle prompte et naïfue,
Mais d'elle n’ay mot ne demy.
Quand quelqu’un parle il m’est auis
Que Narcissus ha quelque ennuy,
Je me presente vis à vis
Pour tenir propos à celuy
Que telle parole prononce,
En luy faisant mesme response,
Mesme propos et mesmes dicts.
Narcissus, respons s’il te plaist,
Ois tu mon cry, ie croy que non:
Rien ne sera mon piteaux plaid,
Fors par tout espandre ton nom.
Donce ie te pry ne me nie
Ta bien amée compaignie,
Et tu seras en bon renom.
Ton bon sçauoir ny parler prompt
Ne m’acquierent aucun plaisir:
Car l’absence de l’amye, rompt
Tout ce qu’en espere mon desir:
Mais plus que c’est ma destinée,
Que ie soye amante obstinée,
Ie quitte propos et plaisir.
Respondant á plusiurs parleuses,
Je n’en y sceu trouuer aucun,
Qui s’aprochast de tes valeurs:
Pour cela i’entretiens chacune,
C’est en attendant ta presence:
C’est ie suis en ferme constance,
Parler á tous, et n’aimer qu’une.
English translation:
My steps, wandering and scattered,
Through many lonely places,
Are mingled with thoughts
That wet my eyes with tears.
And the more I’ve called out,
The less I’ve felt I was heard.
Yet I do not know when I shall have things better.
I have never found my steps so precious,
Nor my mind so benumbed,
As in this searching among mountains and boulders
For my beloved.
My eyes watchful, my ears alert,
My tongue ready and open --
But not a word or syllable of her
When someone speaks, it seems to me
That Narcissus is vexed at something --
I turn to face him
Who says this thing
And talk with him,
Answering him with the same answer,
The same subject, the same words.
Narcissus, answer me, please.
Do you not hear my cry? I fear not;
Nothing will come of my woeful plea, except
To spread your name everywhere.
I beg you not to deny me
Your affectionate company,
And then you will be well spoken of.
Your learning, your ready speech
Bring me no pleasure;
For the absence of my beloved shatters
Everything my longing hopes for.
But since it’s my destiny
To be a stubborn lover,
I abandon my purpose and my pleasure.
Answering several suitors,
I’ve not found any
Who came near to your value --
And I entertain each of them
Only in awaiting your return;
For I am constant;
To speak to all and love only one. 
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Instrumentation by Tommaso Tarsi, vocals & arrangement by Farya Faraji. This is a 16th century French song arranged by Adrian Le Roy, a renowned music publisher, composer and lute player of the 1500's. I use the term arranged, since this melody is found in many different variations of the era, such as the song Pavana con su Glosa from Spain, bu Antonio de Cabezón. It seems that this melodic formula was a common one in the era, a form of early Follia found in different iterations.
This song is a perfect encapsulation of what defines early modern music: a polyphonic, multi-part structure in which four independent melodic lines move in parallel in order to create harmony. At this stage of European music, we see the rise of modern, classical, tonal harmony that still defines the bulk of modern Western music. One of the individual lines, for example, moves in parallel thirds in relation to the main voice, something we're very used to now and would have been completely alien to the French of the 1100's. For more information on how Western European harmony developed, you can watch my in depth video essay on Medieval Organum and its rise into tonal harmony through the centuries: ruclips.net/video/rNY4b0aRLcQ/видео.html
Tommaso, an early music expert, plays the theorbo, two different lutes, and a baroque guitar, and I also added a cornetto, a Renaissance era reed instrument with a texture similar to that of a trumpet, as well as a period trumpet. I chose to sang this primarily in falsetto, a vocal posture that was quite usual at the time for men to sing with.
Lyrics in Early Modern French:
Mes pas semez et loing allez
Par diuers solitaires lieux:
Sont de pensers entremellez,
Qui rendent humides mes yeux,
Et tant plus i’ay ma voix haucée,
Tant moins ie me sens exaucée,
Et si ne sçay quand i’aurai mieux.
Je n’ai tenu mes pas si chers,
Ny mon esprit tant endormy,
Que par montaignes et rochers
Ie n’aye cherche mon amye:
L’oeil au guet, l’aureille ententiue,
La parolle prompte et naïfue,
Mais d'elle n’ay mot ne demy.
Quand quelqu’un parle il m’est auis
Que Narcissus ha quelque ennuy,
Je me presente vis à vis
Pour tenir propos à celuy
Que telle parole prononce,
En luy faisant mesme response,
Mesme propos et mesmes dicts.
Narcissus, respons s’il te plaist,
Ois tu mon cry, ie croy que non:
Rien ne sera mon piteaux plaid,
Fors par tout espandre ton nom.
Donce ie te pry ne me nie
Ta bien amée compaignie,
Et tu seras en bon renom.
Ton bon sçauoir ny parler prompt
Ne m’acquierent aucun plaisir:
Car l’absence de l’amye, rompt
Tout ce qu’en espere mon desir:
Mais plus que c’est ma destinée,
Que ie soye amante obstinée,
Ie quitte propos et plaisir.
Respondant á plusiurs parleuses,
Je n’en y sceu trouuer aucun,
Qui s’aprochast de tes valeurs:
Pour cela i’entretiens chacune,
C’est en attendant ta presence:
C’est ie suis en ferme constance,
Parler á tous, et n’aimer qu’une.
English translation:
My steps, wandering and scattered,
Through many lonely places,
Are mingled with thoughts
That wet my eyes with tears.
And the more I’ve called out,
The less I’ve felt I was heard.
Yet I do not know when I shall have things better.
I have never found my steps so precious,
Nor my mind so benumbed,
As in this searching among mountains and boulders
For my beloved.
My eyes watchful, my ears alert,
My tongue ready and open --
But not a word or syllable of her
When someone speaks, it seems to me
That Narcissus is vexed at something --
I turn to face him
Who says this thing
And talk with him,
Answering him with the same answer,
The same subject, the same words.
Narcissus, answer me, please.
Do you not hear my cry? I fear not;
Nothing will come of my woeful plea, except
To spread your name everywhere.
I beg you not to deny me
Your affectionate company,
And then you will be well spoken of.
Your learning, your ready speech
Bring me no pleasure;
For the absence of my beloved shatters
Everything my longing hopes for.
But since it’s my destiny
To be a stubborn lover,
I abandon my purpose and my pleasure.
Answering several suitors,
I’ve not found any
Who came near to your value --
And I entertain each of them
Only in awaiting your return;
For I am constant;
To speak to all and love only one.
Babe, wake up - an Iranian Guy inhaled helium and is now singing.
😅😅😅
Man Farya is so dedicated to his craft that he decided to cut his balls off to achieve the highest possible pitch 🫡
What can't you do at this point? That falsetto is awesome.
I didn't expect those vocals
Farya make a symphony in Mazandarani make it in your own language
this would be wonderful!
The Dabuyids - Epic Iranian Symphony
@@ShahanshahShahin The Last Zoroastrian Kingdom
@@Karanudaysingh Baduspanids?
@@Apogee012 Never heard of them could you tell me about them?
Your vocal range once again continues to impress.
I wasn't expecting your voice to do that 😅
Its like the complete opposite from what I'm used to hear of you
Obviously not the first time you've sung falsetto on this channel! Love your bass vocals interspersed in there, as well. Typical Renaissance piece! Je l'aime beaucoup !
C'est tres belle,merci beaucoup 🎵👍🎶👏❤️🌟
The Cornetto was an awesome touch! The lute goes without saying.
YESSSSSS New Farya Faraji song!!!! 🎉
Wonderful song to hear, quite charming both text and melody. I was accustomed to more lower tembre of Farya, so I was pretty surprised to hear a falcette from you, lol. I also really want to hear a song in coptic or ancient Egyptian from Farya. Farya make banger no matter which language choose, and I think that languages deserved their own banger, like Belisarius, but about Ramses, or something like it
I'm glad I read the description, I heard the cornetto, initially identified it as a trumpet, but then realized no, and couldn't sort out what instrument it was until I checked.
Thank you
That's an immaculate falsetto. Thank you for recording this gorgeous piece.
First, your range is INCREDIBLE my lord. Second, thank you so much for making this channel and doing what you do. You have opened my eyes and ears to music and culture that I simply didn't conceive of. I can't do justice to how I feel. Thank you.
Another day, another amazing song.
Gorgeous. I am transported.
How many languages do you speak? I know you don’t speak all of the languages you sing in, but I was wondering how many you do
Only French, Persian and English with total fluency. I can handle a few others but only basics
@@faryafaraji How about Mazandarani?
Not at all fluently. I speak the Mazandarani influenced dialect of Persian but not the Mazandarani language itself with total fluency
My goodness... Your vocal versatility is incredible
Un long poème en octosyllabes.
Le rythme et la sonorité sont appréciables même à la lecture.
Day 1 of asking Farya to make an ancient Hebrew song
Captivating. ❤
Beautiful! Simply perfectly performed.
not sure we've ever heard you sing falcetto before.
Seul un français peut se rendre compte à quel point on dirait un Français qui chante ❤
T'es une vraie boîte à surprise, toi
Magnificent ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️👏👏👏👏
I have to think it'd be wonderful to hear you and Luc Arbogast sing a duet.
Your French themes, alongside your Greek, are my favourites.
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL GODS NA- damn this shit sounds good
Wow 😍
Oh wow! This is my favourite piece to play on gittern and I've never heard it sung by a male falsetto! Is this representative of how it'd be sung in this period? Modern falsettos I've heard often have a heavier vibrato and greater projection- I've wondered about that, since the gittern and lute are rather quiet instruments.
Vibrato was generally frowned upon in those times and was used far more sparingly, most vocals would tend to have little to no vibrato throughout a performance, something we even see with bowed instruments. String sections up to Mozart's time would be played without any vibrato, whereas nowadays it's customary to apply some amount vibrato throughout the entire performance as the default sound.
It should also be remembered that music back then was chamber music. You performed for a small audience of a few people in small rooms. The more projected vibrato of today is a necessity of this type of music now being performed in concert halls.
@@faryafaraji Thank you, fascinating! I'll have to do more research about this!
I didn't expect one day to see you sing in falsetto.
Interestingly, your timbre is very close to the timbre of a cornetto xD, basically you have an instrument voice.
Wesh! WESH! WEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!!!!! ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️
Have you done any research about the origins of "Jungle Level Music", and music labeled as Polynesian, Mayan, Aztec, or Amazonian? How does it compare with actual music from the Mayas, Aztecs, and the tribes of the Amazon rainforest?
You should make another Sephardi song
What a voice !
subarawunderbar, hontonii
Farya, are you going to make a QnA soon after you've reach 250k subscriber?
Get this man into Wolf Hall series 2
Could you maybe ever try a Cartheginian song? About Hannibal Barca and Carthage maybe in Punic? Just an idea
I couldn't understand a word
Because I do not speak french.
Great as always!
The lyrics are in the captions - first in French, then in English - and they are very beautiful too! 🙂
I liked that war drum part :)
अति सुन्दर मित्र!
Браво браво 🎉❤❤❤
These lyrics are so deep, and when I read the English translation ( as I don't speak French ), I realised this song is about Echo, right? 😮 I wonder if you have a song about Melosus somewhere in your repertoire, as she's such a famous deity in early or mid-Medieval French folklore - there must be tons of songs about her, would be interesting to hear at least one or some of them. 🙂 Maybe someone can guide me to a song about her, if you have made one....Thank you for this piece, I didn't expect you to sing in such a high voice either, one of the best falsettos I have heard so far. Thank you! 🤗
I didn't know Faryas voice could do THAT
Farya I want a 230 k special message and I want Jon Snow in it because I miss his fluffy presence even though he is just a cat and doesn't understand anything about music or music theory
You so sure? 😉 Cats know all the secrets of the universe, so music theory is such a piece of cake for them, that chasing flies and lounging around is more fun - and the fly chase more challenging. 😅😸🐾🙏🎶
Farya, you're gorgeous! ❤😊
Bonjour 👋🤩
It would be nice to see a symphony on the original Muslim conquests framed as a continuation of the battle of Nineveh.
I don't know if there are enough sources to make a narrative like you have made a habit of doing for a while but so many important things happened like the Byzantine empire shrinking in half and the Sasanids getting swallowed whole, maybe even a passage on Iberia and the battle of Poitiers.
nice
Is any of your work on any streaming services like Deezer or Apple Music? You have such a variety of content and I have yet to find a piece I don't love!
Гурон:"Зараз час такий - час можливостей".
The percussion sounds like almost cannons firing!
Did not know he could go that high tbh
Hello Farya, What's your daily job? Are you some kind of conservatory student or?
I'm a photographer/videographer
well done
please make a song about ghadesie...
Make a song or music video about bangla saltanat .It's a request 🥺
nice pitch
👍
Hey Farya, could you take a look at a song ? it's Magna Tizca by Legio Symphonica. It's a song for 40k that tries to go for an "egyptian vibe" (I think) and I wanted your opinion on it. It's a pretty cool song that tells the story of Prospero in the 40k universe.
Merhaba Farya, Hülagû Han için güçlü bir müzik yapabilir misin ?, özellikle Karadeniz'de kullanılan üflemeli Tulum çalgısı ona güzel bir hava verebilir tıpkı Belisarius'da olduğu gibi :), Türkler için önemli bir komutandır Hülagû Han, eserlerin mükemmel ve yaptığın sanatı takdir ediyoruz umarım senin gibi büyük sanatçıdan bu büyük komutanı dinleyebiliriz, Türkiye'den sevgiler ve saygılar.
❤
Well I guess if The Bee Gees ever reform…
이게 가능해? ㄷㄷㄷ
Fun!)) But I can’t listen to this, I’d rather read it)).
le tourdion
lol that voice
Eightth comment !!!!
Great scottish song
Uhhhhh joke right?
@@EngineerFromTf2 ruclips.net/video/LR511iAedYU/видео.htmlsi=NWlex_TiVrB2WiW3
You're using helium, right? Right? 😅
Just natural falsetto haha
It would be cool to hear some type of Anglo-Saxon music.
🍯 🫖
don’t vote « renaissance » in France 😭🙏
We'll see by the end of June.
castrati
☠️
or countertenors... or falsettists....
0/10 needs more opera to be considered European.
The lack of bagpipes really takes you away from the whole europe thing, non authentic; dislike unsub.
Where are accordions?
Day 2 of asking Farya to make an ancient Hebrew song