Oede de la Couroierie (died 1294), also known as Eude de Carigas and Odo de Corigiaria, was a trouvère of Artois.

Life

Oede is documented beginning in 1270 as a clerk in the house of Count Robert II, who often sent him on diplomatic missions. He served Robert until his death. His will, made in June 1294, provides for both his widow with her three children and a mistress with her two. His will calls him both Odon de Paris and Odon de Saint-Germain. He was probably born in the Île-de-France, near Paris.

Songs and their models

All five of Oede's known songs are part of contrafact networks. In most cases, the act of contrafaction is clearly Oede's because the author of the song with which his song shares a melody is a much earlier trouvère. Oede's songs are only preserved in one manuscript family, the so-called KNPX group. All five songs appear in TrouvK (the 'Arsenal chansonnier') and TrouvN (and, presumably in the lost part of TrouvX) in the same order. Only two songs, the pair starting with the letter T, appear in TrouvP. The songs on which Oede's are based are more widely transmitted.

Two of Oede's songs (RS215 and RS1740) use the same melody by Gace Brulé.[1] All three songs are copied in TrouvK and TrouvN (and did appear in TrouvX before folios were lost).[2] But Gace's song also appears copied more widely, featuring in two other chansonnier families. Another of Oede's songs uses the melody of a clearly earlier song by Blondel de Nesle. Of the remaining two songs, one (RS321) shares a melody with a song by Oede's near-contemporary Raoul de Soissons and the other with two other songs, one with disputed attributions and one transmitted anonymously, making relative chronology harder to establish.[3]

List of songs

Using the melody of Gace Brulé, Desconfortés plain d'ire et de pesance (RS233):

Using the melody of Blondel de Nesle, A l'entrant d'esté (RS620):

Using the melody of Raoul de Soissons, Rois de Navarre et sire de virtu (RS2063):

Using the same melody as both the anonymous Au repairier que je fis de Provence (RS642) and also Chanter m'estuet, car pris m'en est courage (RS15=1124), which is variously attributed to Gilles de Viés Maisons, Robert de Marberoles, and Conon de Béthune:

  • Chançon ferai par grant desesperance (RS216), copied in TrouvK pp.202-203, TrouvN fol.97r-v, and in a lost part of TrouvX. This song is no.4 in the order of the MSS.

Notes

  1. ↑ The RS numbers refer to the numbers in the standard catalogue of trouvère song, Hans Spanke, G. Raynaud’s Bibliographie des altfranzösische Liedes, neu bearbeitet und ergänzt. Leiden: Brill, 1955.
  2. ↑ See the collated information for song no.135 in Hans Tischler, Trouvère Lyrics with Melodies: Complete Comparative Edition. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 107. 15 vols. Neuhausen: American Institute of Musicology and Hänssler-Verlag, 1997.
  3. ↑ See the details for song no.11 in Hans Tischler, Trouvère Lyrics with Melodies: Complete Comparative Edition. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 107. 15 vols. Neuhausen: American Institute of Musicology and Hänssler-Verlag, 1997. The inclusion of RS15=1124 in this contrafact network was not noted by Robert Falck in the Grove entry, despite this being dated later than Tischler's edition.

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