MOTIVE CHALLENGE III - Fa la la lan

Here's another little motive for you guys. It's an old 16th century melody called Fa la la lan.



Do whatever you'd like with it and post here.

Joculatores Upsaliensis is the name of the tune

here's mine thanks for the motif

it has midi sound, but in mp3 so that i'm sure everyone hears exactly what i do, regardless of what midi processors we have.

it's played with clavichord samples, but it's not really meant to be performed on a real one.

i'm not sure what the clavichord's range is, and i'm pretty sure you can't vary the volume there, but noone's going to play this anyway, so i just love the way clavichord sounds the most, and that's it

curious and hoping to hear others' submissions

I love the additive rhythms of Renaissance melody... even in the sacred stuff you see these rhythms all the time. To bad they didn't survive into much Baroque or Classical music. I might write something on this! But where did you find that it's name is Joculatores Upsaliensis, the jokers of Uppsala? I know a setting of this melody was found in the Uppsala Songbook, but that is actually a Spanish collection. Falalalanlera on the other hand would be the right name for a secular villancico.... sorry, I don't know what villancico is in English.

Wikisource has

Falalalanlera,
De la guarda riera.

Quando yo me vengo
De guardar ganado,
Todos me lo dizen,
Pedro el desposado.
A la he, si soy,
Con la hija de nostramo,
Qu'esta sortiguela
Ella me la diera.
Falalalanlera,
De la guarda riera.

Alla rriba, rriba,
En val de roncales,
Tengo yo mi esca
Y mis pedernales,
Y mi curronçito
De ciervos ceruales,
Hago yo mi lumbre
Sientome doquiera,
Falalalanlera,
De la guarda riera.

Viene la quaresma,
Yo no como nada,
Ni como sardina,
Ni cosa salada,
De quanto yo quiero
No se haze nada,
Migas con azeyte,
Hazenme dentera,
Falalalanlera,
De la guarda riera.

And that does fit into that neat rhythm. The first verse begins something like

When I return
from taking care of the animals (cows),
they all call me
Peter the engaged.
Yes I am
to the daughter of our lord

...and I have no idea what sortiguela is. But several online version's I've found have a slightly different melody. Folk melody has very deep and mysterious roots; I begin to see why the nationalists of the late Romantic period were so interested.

I found YouTube - seibit2's Channel

Originally Posted by echurchill

I found YouTube - seibit2's Channel

That is actually the one I based it of, it's found in a game called Europa Universalis II.

edit:
Oh, I've misunderstood. The name of the song is not Joculatores Upsalienses, that's the name of the group that performs it

i have started writing something...just wait a few days and you will have a motif piece completed

btw...your quote is very existentialist. i dislike it.

Originally Posted by goodridge_winners

i have started writing something...just wait a few days and you will have a motif piece completed

btw...your quote is very existentialist. i dislike it.

Our views of life is extremely different my friend, let's just keep it at that and focus on the common language of music.

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I actually had an interesting idea for once.... but probably will never get the time to continue it.

But I really like that rhythm!

i like it, you should definitely go on with this piece!