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With additional support from the Departments of French and Italian, Comparative Literature, and The Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program at UC Davis, Concordian Dawn brings life to a fourteenth-century French allegory, “Le Roman de Fauvel,” illuminating its relevance to modern audiences through a multimedia presentation of music, text, and art.

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Concordian Dawn: ”le Roman De Fauvel”

Ann E. Pitzer Center

“Almost everything we might wish to know about the sound of medieval music is lost to us,” warns Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Through the double medium of discursive speculation and live performance, Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn set out in this lecture-performance not to know medieval song – we agree that is not possible – but to relive some of its affective realities, which we locate not in the objective worlds of time, place, or historical circumstance, but in dynamic interactions between body and world inflected by imagination. The sounds of this song are conjured not just by birds and fountains, but by celestial beasts and alluring sirens. Some of these sung texts represent the singing subject captivated by beauty, others struggling between life and death, others at the limits of a dream world, or ecstatic with joy.

Thomas Mccargar

Baritone

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Feb 16, 2024

Concordian Dawn: ”le Roman De Fauvel” · UC Davis Arts

Sep 28, 2023

Medieval Song and the Sounding of World, Body, and Imagination · Princeton University Music Department

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