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Children's Crusade, Op. 82, subtitled a Ballad for children's voices and orchestra [1] is a composition by Benjamin Britten. He completed it in 1969, setting Bertolt Brecht 's poem Kinderkreuzzug 1939 [ de ] for children's choir with some solo parts, keyboard instruments and an array of percussion, to be performed mainly by children.
Chevalier, mult estes guariz is an anonymous Old French crusade song written between April 1146 and June 1147. [1] The title (in fact, the incipit) translated "Knights, you are under sure protection". The song predates the chansonnier works of the trouvères. [2] The author of the song is not known.
The Children's Crusade, by Gustave Doré. The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land in the early 13th century.
The Crusade song was not confined to the topic of the Latin East, but could concern the Reconquista in Spain, the Albigensian Crusade in Languedoc, or the political crusades in Italy. The first Crusade to be accompanied by songs, none of which survive, was the Crusade of 1101 , of which William IX of Aquitaine wrote, according to Orderic Vitalis .
The "Children's Crusade" of 1212 did not consist solely of children, despite its name. Contemporary and later chroniclers described the participants as pueri, which is Latin for "youths". However, the term could refer to an unmarried boy, someone below the age of maturity and to denote someone of low social status, such as a shepherd ...
Crusade cycles had a wide medieval audience: free translations and versions of the Chanson d'Antioche appeared in Old Occitan, Spanish, English, Dutch, and German. The Chanson d'Antioche was forgotten, until it was printed and published in 1848 by Alexis Paulin Paris, at the height of the Romantic Gothic Revival. The most recent edition is "The ...
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The song's conclusion refers to the crusades themselves, asserting that, in view of the claim of Christians, Jews and "heathens" (Muslims) to the Holy Land, the Christian claim is the just one (Al diu werlt diu strîtet her / Wir sîn an der rehten ger / Reht ist, daz er uns gewer "All the world is warring here [in the Holy Land] / Our claim is ...