Ja Nuns Hons Pris ne Dira - No man who is imprisoned (1192-1194) - TopicsExpress



          

Ja Nuns Hons Pris ne Dira - No man who is imprisoned (1192-1194) by Richard I Lionhearted * A song was written by Richard the First of England and Duke of Aquitaine, during the two years he spent languishing in prison after having been kidnapped and held for ransom in what is now Austria on his way home from fighting in the crusades. In it, he complains bitterly about how his friends seem to have all betrayed him by letting him remain in prison, rather than paying the ransom that would free him. A song is addressed to his half-sister Marie de Champagne and it is written in French and Occitan versions. The story of his rescue by the minstrel Blondel is fictitious, but has had its operatic and dramatic uses. Being a lifelong lover of music, and having learned music composition and poetry as part of his early education, he occupied his time by eloquently setting his distress to music.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:02:16 +0000

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