Le Tourdion - French Renaissance Song

Arrangement & vocals by Farya Faraji. Many thanks to my good friends Christophe Chapleau and Tommy Laniel for participating in the video. The history of this song is a bit complex: originally, the Tourdion was a French dance of the 1500’s, with its associated music usually if not always in triple metre. The specific piece heard here was collected by Pierre Attaignant, a music publisher. This is an important detail: all over the internet, people will credit him as the author and musician of this melody, but he was simply a publisher, and he was the first to collect this piece whose original author is unknown. This original piece had no lyrics, and was simply a polyphonic instrumental piece. The lyrics heard here were added over four centuries later by César Goeffrey, a French musician, in the 1900’s, who turned the piece into a vocal polyphonic performance. Therefore, my arrangement, while historically accurate in its form, is a mixture of the original instrumental piece with th