Jocelin de Dijon
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Jocelin de Dijon was an Old French
trouvère
, presumably from Dijon
, with two surviving songs to his name and two more (without music) credited to an otherwise unidentifiable "Jocelin" in the Berne Chansonnier but which may be the work of Jocelin de Dijon.
Of the two pieces attributed to him, only A l'entree del dous commencement can be confidently dated. It was written around 1220 and refers to the absence of a certain Andriu and the Seigneur d'Arsie. It is independently known that André III de Montbard and Jehan I, Seigneur d'Arcis-sur-Aube, joined the Fifth Crusade
in 1218; Jehan never returned. Whereas the poetry is divided into four- and five-line strophe
s, the melody in the Noailles Chansonnier is divided into five- and four-line groups (i.e., in opposite order). It was used as a model for the anonymous song Vers Dieu mes fais desirrans sui forment. Jocelin's other piece is Par une matinee en mai.
Old French
Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century...
trouvère
Trouvère
Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...
, presumably from Dijon
Dijon
Dijon is a city in eastern France, the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.Dijon is the historical capital of the region of Burgundy. Population : 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 for the greater Dijon area....
, with two surviving songs to his name and two more (without music) credited to an otherwise unidentifiable "Jocelin" in the Berne Chansonnier but which may be the work of Jocelin de Dijon.
Of the two pieces attributed to him, only A l'entree del dous commencement can be confidently dated. It was written around 1220 and refers to the absence of a certain Andriu and the Seigneur d'Arsie. It is independently known that André III de Montbard and Jehan I, Seigneur d'Arcis-sur-Aube, joined the Fifth Crusade
Fifth Crusade
The Fifth Crusade was an attempt to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering the powerful Ayyubid state in Egypt....
in 1218; Jehan never returned. Whereas the poetry is divided into four- and five-line strophe
Strophe
A strophe forms the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode. In its original Greek setting, "strophe, antistrophe and epode were a kind of stanza framed only for the music," as John Milton wrote in the preface to Samson Agonistes, with the strophe...
s, the melody in the Noailles Chansonnier is divided into five- and four-line groups (i.e., in opposite order). It was used as a model for the anonymous song Vers Dieu mes fais desirrans sui forment. Jocelin's other piece is Par une matinee en mai.