Puisque je suis fumeux - Johannes Symonis
An example of French Ars Subtilior composition, from ~1400AD in the Avignon region
Trebor - Quant joyne cuer en may est amoureux
Ferrara Ensemble, taken from the album Corps Femenin
Hunt of the Unicorn - The Met
‘Produced in 1974, this video was created in conjunction with the loan exhibition Masterpieces of Tapestry. It explores the The Cloisters’ Unicorn tapestries, retelling the story they depict and interpreting the symbolic meanings of the mythic creature.’
Kay Sutton, director of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, decodes the Ripley Scroll, a 17th-century alchemical treatise - Christie’s YouTube channel
Adieu, adieu mon joieulx souvenir - Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460)
Faventina - The liturgical music of Codex Faenza 117 (1380-1420)
Kyrie, Fons et origo/Alleluja, Ego sum pastor bonus/Kyrie, Orbis factor
Mala Punica - Pedro Memelsdorff
A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria (I must sing of what I do not want).
Music and lyrics by Beatriz de Dia (born c. 1140 - flourished circa 1175, Provence), the most famous of a small group of trobairitz, or female troubadours who wrote courtly songs of love during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Performed by Clemencic Consort
Singer: Pilar Figueras
La dame à la licorne - Musée de Cluny
Previously: Conservators washing the ‘Battle of Solebay’ tapestry
Danse Macabre - Małgorzata Rżanek
A humoristic adaptation of a popular medieval theme, the “dance of death”.
A patchwork of symbols illustrates human passing. Following a three-legged character we discover a murky world of the deceased.
Seemingly separate elements turn out to be part of a perfectly synchronized organism.