{"id":133,"date":"2012-12-13T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-12-13T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T20:30:56","slug":"advent-calendar-day-13-joseph-est-bien-marie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2012\/12\/13\/advent-calendar-day-13-joseph-est-bien-marie\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 13: Joseph est bien mari\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Joseph carol, a bit less well-known than the various iterations of the cherry tree.\u00a0 This is a traditional French carol which I haven’t been able to find a provenance for, but certainly sounds like it’s from the Renaissance (not weird enough to the modern ear to be medieval, but the instrumentation and tune is definitely pre-baroque.\u00a0 Also, it sounds like incidental music from any Shakespeare play you’d care to mention, which is definitely Renaissance or pseudo-renaissance…)<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FFbneUGHfhA&w=420&h=315]The title basically means “Joseph married well”.\u00a0 I’ve put a (hasty and probably bad – it’s late at night and I’m on a break from confectionery) translation below, but again, I’m being fairly brief because my finger is still kind of painful to type with.\u00a0 Also, not all the verses they sing are in the translation below, but this was the best I could do…<\/p>\n

I did discover in my travels that Claude Balbastre wrote a rather lovely organ voluntary consisting of variations on this melody<\/a>.\u00a0 This is definitely worth your attention if you like harpsichord or organ music.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joseph est bien mari\u00e9 \u00e0 la fille de Jess\u00e9.<\/p>\n

C’\u00e9tait chose bien nouvelle D’\u00eatre m\u00e8re et pucelle.
\nDieu y avait op\u00e9r\u00e9: Joseph est bien mari\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Et quand ce fut au premier Que Dieu voulut nous sauver
\nIl fit en terre descendre Son seul fils J\u00e9sus pour prendre
\nEn Marie humanit\u00e9: Joseph est bien mari\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Quand Joseph eut aper\u00e7u Que la femme avait con\u00e7u
\nIl ne s’en contenta mie, F\u00e2ch\u00e9 fut contre Marie,
\nEt se voulut en aller: Joseph est bien mari\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Mais l’ange si lui a dit: Joseph n’en aie point d\u00e9pit,
\nTa sainte femme Marie Est grosse du fruit de vie.
\nElle a con\u00e7u sans p\u00e9ch\u00e9: Joseph est bien mari\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Les anges y sont venus Voir le R\u00e9dempteur J\u00e9sus.
\nDe tr\u00e8s belle compagnie, P\u00fcis \u00e0 haute voix jolie
\nGloria ils ont chant\u00e9: Joseph est bien mari\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Or prions d\u00e9v\u00f4tement De bon coeur et humblement.
\nQue paix, joie et bonne vie Imp\u00eatre Dame Marie
\nA notre n\u00e9cessit\u00e9: Joseph est bien mari\u00e9.<\/td>\n

<\/em>Joseph married well, to the daughter of Jesse
\nThis was something very new, to be mother and virgin
\nGod made it so: Joseph married well.<\/p>\n

And when God first wanted to redeem us<\/p>\n

He made his only son Jesus descend to earth
\nTo take human form through Mary: Joseph married well.<\/p>\n

When Joseph realised that the woman was with child
\nHe wasn’t happy at all, he was angry with Mary
\nAnd wanted to leave her: Joseph married well.<\/p>\n

But the angel said to him: Joseph, do not think ill of her
\nYour holy wife Mary is big with the fruit of life
\nShe has conceived without sin: Joseph married well.<\/p>\n

The angels came to see the Saviour Jesus<\/p>\n

In gorgeous company, then with loud, beautiful voices
\nThey sang gloria!\u00a0 Joseph married well!<\/p>\n

Therefore we pray with devotion, sincerity and humbleness
\nThat our Intercessor, Lady Mary, may bring peace, joy and good life
\nin our necessities: Joseph married well.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(apologies for that last line – Renaissance French is not my strong suit, so it’s very approximate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Joseph carol, a bit less well-known than the various iterations of the cherry tree.\u00a0 This is a traditional French carol which I haven’t been able to find a provenance for, but certainly sounds like it’s from the Renaissance (not weird enough to the modern ear to be medieval, but the instrumentation and tune is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,140,260,385],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-claude-balbastre","tag-french-carol","tag-joseph-est-bien-marie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}