Courtly Love and Rondeau Form
Both Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye by Dufay and Le souvenir de vous me tue by Morton are the songs of the courtly love and, they are composed in the rondeau form. From one point of view, the form of the music, rondeau, may be too specific in terms of the melody order to express the poem of the courtly love which is about a man's feelings of distant love. However, in these two specific songs, Dufay and Morton used their clever criativities to let the repetition of the melodies and the poem fit naturally to the overall flow of the songs.
According to Michael Freeman in "The World of Courtly Love," the style of music of the courtly love was developped by the "troubadours" who were musicians as well as poets in the first half of the twelfth centry. The courtly love is a particular music which the "troubadour" idolises a woman who is in a higher social status than he is. He loves her and admires her but, the difference in their social stauses makes him away from the woman. Therefore, he puts his feeling from love for her to jerous for rivals in his music and, he performs for himself or for a small audience.
Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye by Dufay and Le souvenir de vous me tue by Morton are songs of the courtly love in rondeau form. Rondeau is a form of song which is created by two melodies (supporse they are A and B) and several sets of verses of poem. The combination of the melody and the verse of poem will come out as A-B-a-A-a-b-A-B. For example, in Le souvenir de vous me tue, there are two melodies, A and B. Then, there are several sets of verses of poem;
Le souvenir de vous me tue, Mon seul bien, quant je ne vous voy,
Car je vous jure sus ma foy Que sans vous ma joye est perdue.
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...fore the last repetition, so that the song can go back to the repetition smoothly.
After all, Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye and Le souvenir de vous me tue are the songs of the courtly love which Dufay and Morton use the characteristics of the rondeaus form fully and effectively. They associate two different elements of the poem to the two different melodies of the song. Therefore, the melody means more than just a simple melody; it represents the certain element of the poem; for example, the melody A in Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye represents the action of him leaving the woman. Moreover, the rondeau form has a specific order of the melodies and the sections of the poem; A-B-a-A-a-b-A-B. A certain parts of the song are forced to repeat because of its rules. However, both Dufay and Morton use some keywords to make the repetition to come back smoothly into the song.
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