Stella Splendens polka

This is the second tune of the first track of Er Pasker by JM Veillon. I’m not sure wether this is really a polka…

Wouldn’t call it polka, nor dance tune in any modern sense…. =)

Actually it is a medieval song of which two voices have been recorded in the Spanish LLibre Vermeille de Montserrat. Text goes:

Stella splendens in monte ut solis radium
Miraculis serrato exaudi populum
Concurrunt universi gaudentes populi
Divites et egeni, grandes et parvuli

T:stella splendens
M:2/4
L:1/4
Q:1/4=120
S:Llibre Vermell de Montserrat,
K:DDor
(A A/G/)|A F| D F|(G2|_B/A/F/G/)|E D | F G |(G/F/) D|C2 |
(A A/G/)|A F| D F|(G2|_B/A/F/G/)|E D| F G|(G/F/) (D/E/4C/4)|D2 ||
D D | A B |d (B|c/A/) G |B c | A (G/F/)|(F/E/) D |
D D| A B| d (B|c/A/) G | B c |A (G/F/)|(F/E/) D |
(A A/G/)|A F| D F|(G2|_B/A/F/G/)|E D | F G |(G/F/) D|C2 |
(A A/G/)|A F| D F|(G2|_B/A/F/G/)|E D| F G|(G/F/) (D/E/4C/4)|D2 ||

Benoît, this, again, is a Hanter Dro: best written in 3/4 (see the comments I made about: Er Pasker
https://thesession.org/tunes/10102 )
The original medieval tune has been modified to suit the needs of this dance. The 1st down beat "B/B:A" is repeated as a down beat again, after only 3 groups of 3 beats. That is it: 3x3. Don’t you join this pedestrian dance in your big-arse 4x4!
😉
Happy New Year to you and all at thesession.
Bloavez Mad Nevez! (= Have a "Mad" year!! 😉 )

Viz..;

X: 1
T: Stella Splendens
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
R: Hanter Dro
K: E minor
BB/A/ BG EG|A2 c/B/G/A/ FE|GA A/G/E D2|BB/A/
BG EG|A2 c/B/G/A/ FE|1 GA A/G/E/D/ E2:|2 GA B/G/E/D/ EG/F/||
K: E dorian
EE Bc ec|BA cd BA/G/|FE Bc ef/e/|dc/B/ AG/F/ E2|
EB/E/ Bc ec|BA cd Bc/d/|ef/e/ dc/d/ B2|A/G/F/G/ AG/F/ EF//G//A/||

Try http://dansal.gwalarn.org/hanterdro.html for a decent overview -in French- of Breton Dances and their associated ‘terroirs’ (‘local ground’)