betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) (01/14/85)
I'm trying to find a recording of a medieval troubador's song
which once I heard at an early music concert. The text of the
song is printed in Poul Anderson's *The Star Fox*, but no title is given.
The song, in French, concerns a King who gives orders for the most beautiful
ladies to be paraded before him. He sees the most beautiful, and asks
his loyal friend the Marquis who she is. "Sire, she is my wife." replies
the Marquis. Eventually the Queen orders that the Marquise be poisoned
with a bouquet of flowers, and there the song ends. The chorus
is the French onomatapoetic for drumbeats, namely "rataplan,
rataplan, rataplan-plan-plan."
Does anybody recognize the song from this synopsis? If so, could you send
me its name, and the names of any albums which contain performances
of it?
Thanks ever so.
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Elizabeth Hanes Perry
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