Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Vocals and arrangement by Farya Faraji. This is a reworking of the original I uploaded in 2021 to correct historical inacurracies and technical errors.
This is a song which likely dates to the 1600's, and seems to be about Saint-Louis, the Crusader king of France who lived in the 13th century. It depicts the fictional love story between his daughter and the dashing knight Déon—the song is an example of the romanticized view of the Middle-Ages as seen through the eyes of Louis XIV's France. The melody has nowadays been popularised with the song "Le Roi Louis," which repurposes the melody and changes the lyrics to a call for Crusade during the Middle-Ages, that version however is a very modern one, and the lyrics heard here are the original.
With the arrangement, I tried my best to emulate the style of Late Renaissance to Early Baroque music. Music in the era from the Late Middle Ages to the Baroque period saw the Western European rise of polyphony—the simultaneous presence of two or more melodic lines playing at once, which emerged out of early, simple harmonisations of religious chant; said harmonisation called the Organum. The Organum eventually gave way to complex polyphony, which became the obsession of European music from the 1300's up to Mozart's era, where the complexity of polyphony died down and emphasis was put more on individual melodic lines accompanied by harmonic support; in other words, most of today's Western music, which tends to be a melody accompanied with chords.
The 1600's however were the era of Baroque and polyphonic music, and this piece is perfect to exemplify the use of polyphony at the time: the simple melody is repeated throughout all nine minutes of the piece, but other, parallel melodic lines, either vocal or instrumental, run concurrently with it at different times in the music, giving that repeated melodic line a distinct sound and flavour as the piece progresses.
Vocals and arrangement by Farya Faraji. This is a reworking of the original I uploaded in 2021 to correct historical inacurracies and technical errors.
This is a song which likely dates to the 1600's, and seems to be about Saint-Louis, the Crusader king of France who lived in the 13th century. It depicts the fictional love story between his daughter and the dashing knight Déon—the song is an example of the romanticized view of the Middle-Ages as seen through the eyes of Louis XIV's France. The melody has nowadays been popularised with the song "Le Roi Louis," which repurposes the melody and changes the lyrics to a call for Crusade during the Middle-Ages, that version however is a very modern one, and the lyrics heard here are the original.
With the arrangement, I tried my best to emulate the style of Late Renaissance to Early Baroque music. Music in the era from the Late Middle Ages to the Baroque period saw the Western European rise of polyphony—the simultaneous presence of two or more melodic lines playing at once, which emerged out of early, simple harmonisations of religious chant; said harmonisation called the Organum. The Organum eventually gave way to complex polyphony, which became the obsession of European music from the 1300's up to Mozart's era, where the complexity of polyphony died down and emphasis was put more on individual melodic lines accompanied by harmonic support; in other words, most of today's Western music, which tends to be a melody accompanied with chords.
The 1600's however were the era of Baroque and polyphonic music, and this piece is perfect to exemplify the use of polyphony at the time: the simple melody is repeated throughout all nine minutes of the piece, but other, parallel melodic lines, either vocal or instrumental, run concurrently with it at different times in the music, giving that repeated melodic line a distinct sound and flavour as the piece progresses.
