Jocelin de Dijon


Jocelin de Dijon was an Old French trouvère, presumably from Dijon. Two songs survive attributed to his full name and two further songs survive credited to an otherwise unidentifiable "Jocelin" in the Berne Chansonnier which may be the work of Jocelin de Dijon.
Of the two pieces securely attributed to him, only A l'entree del dous commencement can be confidently dated. It was written around 1220 and refers to the absence of a certain Andriu and the Seigneur d'Arsie. It is independently known that André III de Montbard and Jehan I, Seigneur d'Arcis-sur-Aube, joined the Fifth Crusade in 1218; Jehan never returned. Whereas the poetry is divided into four- and five-line strophes, the melody in the is divided into five- and four-line groups. Karp claims it was used as a model for the anonymous song Vers Dieu mes fais desirrans sui forment, found in , although this is an assumption based on similar versification, since the ostensible melody transmitted in that source is a fictitious form of musical notation and does not give the real melody.

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