Douce Dame Debonaire
Secrets & Desires in French Medieval Song

Jennie Cassidy voice
Belinda Sykes voice, mey
Jean Kelly harp, vielle
(sometimes plus Jim O'Toole vielle)

Intimate and evocative songs of the trouvères. Sacred and secular medieval songs performed with harp and voices in the style of the ancient bards - spontaneous, atmospheric and narrative.

MP3s::De moi dolereus

Lai de Nostre-Dame

Douce dame debonaire

Douce dame jolie

Some of the most beautiful medieval melodies are to be found in the courtly love-drenched world of the trouvères - Fin amors had so affected the culture and imagination of Europe throughout the last thousand years that C.S. Lewis described it as a 'revolution' compared to which 'the Renaissance is a mere ripple on the surface of literature.'