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"feu Maitre Lucas le Moigne, en son vivant Cur6 de S. George de Pui-la-Garde, au diocese de Poitou." He also mentions an old noel in the time of Louis the Twelfth, to the tune of "A vous point vu la Perronelle ?" Brunet gives the title of a collection printed at Lyon, about 1520, containing one in the patois of that province, which would appear to be different from that by Lucas le Moigne.
About 1540, Clement Marot made his celebrated version of the psalms into French rhyme, which were sung to popular tunes, and adopted by the French court; and some were probably introduced at Christmas, as well as the noels. About the same time, Calvin introduced the psalms into his congregation at Geneva, and Sternhold and Hopkins brought out their version in England, " with apt notes to sing them withall."
In the same century was a collection of " Noels vieux et nouveaux." Pasquier, in his work on France, published in 1643, says, " En ma ieunesse c'estoit une coustume que Fon ausit tournee en ceremonie, de chanter tous les soirs presque en chaque famille des nouels, qui estoient chansons spirituelles faites en Fhonneur de nostre Seignor. Lesquelles on chante encores en plusieurs Eglises pendant que Fon celebre la grand messe le iour de nouel, lors que le prestre recoit les offrandes. Or cette allegresse manifesta encores hors les Eglises; parce que le peuple n'auoit moyen plus ouvert pour denoter sa ioye, que de crier en lieu public nouel, quand il vouloit congratuler a un Prince." In 1610, appeared ' Melanges de la musique de Eustache du Caurroy, maistre de la musique de la Chappelle du Roy,' which contains some noels, of one of which Burney has given the music; and it is said that the greater parfrof the noels sung in France are gavots and other airs, which |
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