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The deadline should be feared, should be feared
Work on L'homme armé continues and is tentatively wrapping up. It's... not quite the effort I wanted, but it's something to perhaps revise in years to come. I wasn't able to match the AAA rhyme scheme of the verse, resorted to a good deal of approximate rhyme, and... well, the verses I added aren't particularly novel, let's say. OTOH, that will make it easier to memorize it, if the fighters take a shine to it.
Going off of the music on the here (is a pdf file), you need a beat of pickup on G before the song starts, and a couple of half-notes shoved in... let's see, the first "In" in the verse, and the "with" that starts the third line (so the quarter-D written in measure 10 becomes A-D... I'm not really sure if I'm singing two eights, but the stresses work out in the next measure so it's fitting in somehow).
Also, you need to sometimes pronounce arméd, two syllables, and armed, one syllable.
CHORUS:
The man, the man, the arméd man
The armed man
The armed man should be feared
He should be feared
In every land it is proclaimed
That each man should arm himself
With a coat of iron chain
In every place they give the word
That each man should arm himself
With a sharp and shining sword
They say in every town and field
That each man should arm himself
With a stout and oaken shield
The translation clearly owes a heavy debt to the Wiki translation, which is itself adapted from the program notes of the early music group Capella Alamire.
Nyah... this is what I get for humming the tune without the music in front of me. That rhythmic switch at "The armed man should be" is messing with me; thankfully, there's a midi file which may straighten me out by the deadline Thursday. And I want a decent drum accompaniment for it by then.
I didn't make it to the library yet, but I actually do have a good reference for this song (harder to find that I'd thought - most of the work is done on the multiple masses it inspired) and I should be able to lay hands on it soon, or even today, now that my alumni card has arrived. We'll see if reading that demands a reworking of this.
Going off of the music on the here (is a pdf file), you need a beat of pickup on G before the song starts, and a couple of half-notes shoved in... let's see, the first "In" in the verse, and the "with" that starts the third line (so the quarter-D written in measure 10 becomes A-D... I'm not really sure if I'm singing two eights, but the stresses work out in the next measure so it's fitting in somehow).
Also, you need to sometimes pronounce arméd, two syllables, and armed, one syllable.
CHORUS:
The man, the man, the arméd man
The armed man
The armed man should be feared
He should be feared
In every land it is proclaimed
That each man should arm himself
With a coat of iron chain
In every place they give the word
That each man should arm himself
With a sharp and shining sword
They say in every town and field
That each man should arm himself
With a stout and oaken shield
The translation clearly owes a heavy debt to the Wiki translation, which is itself adapted from the program notes of the early music group Capella Alamire.
Nyah... this is what I get for humming the tune without the music in front of me. That rhythmic switch at "The armed man should be" is messing with me; thankfully, there's a midi file which may straighten me out by the deadline Thursday. And I want a decent drum accompaniment for it by then.
I didn't make it to the library yet, but I actually do have a good reference for this song (harder to find that I'd thought - most of the work is done on the multiple masses it inspired) and I should be able to lay hands on it soon, or even today, now that my alumni card has arrived. We'll see if reading that demands a reworking of this.