My Lady Machaut A Thousand Years Interpretation

Love is a feeling that is not known until it is shown. I believe that love is the desire that everyone has whether they know it or not. Taking it in the context of being between two people, it is also a verb. And an action is a choice. Physical feelings are just feelings that go no deeper than the outer layer of one’s true beauty. But the attraction of the mind, heart, spirit is what I would say true love is. And when one chooses to love another unconditionally, without judgment, and regardless of what’s in it for themselves, that’s when one realizes that real love does exist.

To compare love from the historical time to now, I’ve decided to look at the music. A song from the Middle Ages entitled I can too well compare my Lady by Guillaume de Machaut and a song from the modern era entitled A Thousand Years by Christina Perrie. First off the language which De Machaut wrote the song is in French and Perrie wrote her song in English. French happens to be the language of love which works great for a love song.

The lyrics in I can too well compare my Lady is a story of Sleeping Beauty. He talks about how beautiful she is and; how people may not like her, but she melts his heart. Being brave and loving on that person even after a long period of time has passed is the essence of the song A Thousand Years. That love where

In both song the singer goes up but only by step; however there are points which the melody becomes disjunctive. The song my Perrie is sung in a major while the other melody sounds as if it is sung in a minor key. In the song written by de Machaut, there are two people singing. One sounds to be singing in a major chord while the other is singing in a minor chord. Even with the two people singing two different parts of the song they both seem to stay in duple meter. With A Thousand years, it is sung in a triple meter. However both appear to have a slow tempo but Perri ups her tempo more than De