Laudar Volio Per Amore - Medieval Italian Song

Vocals by Kelareh Kabiri & Farya Faraji, hurdy-gurdy and bagpipes by PaulFlute. This is a historically informed approximation of medieval Italian 13th century music, the music and lyrics being from the Laudario di Cortona, a musical manuscript from the latter half of the 13th century that preserves a collection of laude—Italian devotional sungs that were not liturgical, but merely vernacular songs that the laity sang. It is the earliest known source of music written in the Italian vernacular, and the only surviving Italian musical source from the thirteenth century. The music of the manuscript is often incomplete and difficult to reconstruct and decipher, so any melodies that have become the "canonical" renditions you will hear across different recordings will inevitable be scholarly approximations that became academic norms. Therefore, like with all historically informed approximations, this rendition should be approached as an idiom-wide approximation of Italian music of that century, rather than an attempt at recreating what this particular melody would have sounded like. The instruments consist of a hurdy-gurdy played without the buzzing chien, a development that'll emerge later, in the 1400's, (this anachronistic sound is shockingly common in historically informed approximations), as well as a variety of bagpipes, with the lute and a selection of tambourines and frame drums. The arrangement uses the hurdy-gurdy's drone as well as organum polyphony—I refer you to my video essay "Organum : The Birth of European Polyphony," and its bibliography in the pinned comment for more info on this subject. The vocal style is based on the various European folk styles ranging frkm Ireland to the Mediterranean that use a more modal, ornamental approach to vocals, something academia has solidly established as being the norm of Medieval vocals, and a practice still alive and well in modern Italian folk music styles—I refer you to my video essay "The Medieval Vocal Styles," and its bibliography in the pinned comment. Lyrics in Medieval Italian: Laudar vollio per amore lo primer frate minore! San Francisco, amor dilecto, Cristo t'à nel suo cospecto, perhò ke fosti ben perfecto e suo diricto servidore. Tutto el mondo abandonasti, novell'ordine plantasti, pace in terra annuntiasti, como fece el Salvatore! In tutte cose lo seguisti, vita d'apostolifacesti, multa gente convertisti a ludare elsuo gran nome. Tre ordine plantasti: li minori in prima vocasti, e puoi li donnireserasti, li continenti a perfectione.