Robin+et+Marion

The story is a dramatization of a traditional genre of medieval French song, the [|pastourelle].[|[][|3]This genre typically tells of an encounter between a knight and a shepherdess, frequently named Marion. Adam de la Halle's version of the story places a greater emphasis on the activities of Marion, her lover Robin and their friends after she resists the knight's advances. It consists of dialogue in the old [|Picardian dialect] of Adam's home town, [|Arras], interspersed with short refrains or songs in a style which might be considered popular.[|[][|4] The melodies to which these are set have the character of folk music, and seem more spontaneous than the author's more elaborate songs and [|motets]. Two of these melodies in fact appear in the motets, //Mout me fu gries de departir/Robin m'aime, Robin m'a/Portare// and //En mai, quant rosier sont flouri/L'autre jour, par un matin/He, resvelle toi Robin//. The attribution of these motets to Adam is unconfirmed.

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