Been so busy lately I wish sleep wasn't a thing. Too many things.
In Collegium Musicum, an early music ensemble I accompany, we are looking into Spanish music, Juan del Encina came up.
This piece sums up human nature.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgkKvXE0VQ"All the good in the world
Passes quickly
As does its memory
Safe for glory and fame
Time brings some good fortune and luck
And then comes death
That leaves none of us untouched
All the good in the world
Passes quickly
As does its memory
Safe for glory and fame
The greatest and best venture
Passes quickly
As does its memory
Safe for glory and fame
Fame lives surely
Despite its barer's death
All good is a dream
As sure as burial
The greatest and best venture
Passes quickly
As does its memory
Safe for glory and fame"
Comments
An edict by Alfonso XIII places citizens in the following order:
1. Christian men
2. Christian women
3. Jews
4. Muslims (akin to slaves with no rights)
Any Christian that converted to Islam was murdered I believe(?).
In this case, while yes, the ability to think for one's self is highly laudable and should be nurtured and cared for, humans have a penchant for partaking in debauched behaviour that it is, in no way intelligible.
Yo me enamore de un ayre. Enamorar means to fall in love, I have no idea what an ayre is in the setting (I'm assuming this is a piece from Spain when Spain was still until Muslim rule, perhaps fron Granada or Toledo!?).
We love ideas. I have, myself, fallen madly in love with ideas in the past. The problem is reality, and the true consequence of our actions. That hippy revolution!
Fantomina chases Beauplaisir and, in the end, comes a very stupid ending. Sent off to a convent? She ABSOLUTELY fits in! Holy, young, innocent girl she is!!
To Beauplaisir; how stupid stupid do you have to be to not realize all four women are the same woman!?