When Stephanie Pan asked me to write some songs for her, I thought that it would be a great idea to compose music using old text due to her interest in both early and contemporary music. Having a great interest in the music of Guilluame de Machaut and other Ars Nova composers, I was very interested in “tipping my hat”, as it were, to this musical style though the use of texts from 14th century. I used texts by anonymous authors because anonymity seems to support the themes of unrequited love found in these and many other poems of the period.
Renouveler
En Esperant
Puis que l'aloe