Alleluia: a newë work - Baroque Voices

♦ Douce Dame – Guillaume de Machaut, c.1300-77. One of France’s great musical treasures of the past, as Tallis is to England, Machaut was equally at home writing secular songs as he was writing music for the church. This beautiful love song is one of his many virelai, which he wrote both the words and the music for, and this one ... ................
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