From the Martin Best Consort's A Medieval Banquet, "Music from the Age of Chivalry."
Beziers has fallen!This is followed by "Rassa, Tan Creis." The piece was composed by Guiraut Riquier, a troubadour of the first water. Yet that is half the story: the poem that is not included, for which the music was written, was by Bertran de Born, not only a troubadour poet but a baron and knight of France.
They're dead.
Clerks, women, children:
No quarter.
They killed Christians too.
I rode out,
I couldn't see nor hear a living creature.
I saw Simon de Montefort.
His beard glistened in the sun.
They killed seven thousand people!
Seven thousand souls who sought sanctuary
In St. Madeline's.
The steps of the altar were wet with blood.
The church echoed with their cries.
Afterwards, they slaughtered the monks
who tolled the bell.
The used the silver cross
As a block
On which to behead them.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
We have life to resist!
Don't you feel it?
Let's sing for our futures!
All our futures!
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