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The Feast of the Pheasant (French: ''Banquet du Voeu du Faisan'', "Banquet of the Oath of the Pheasant") was a banquet given by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy on 17 February 1454 in Lille, now in France. Its purpose was to promote a crusade against the Turks, who had taken Constantinople the year before. The crusade never took place. There are contemporary accounts of the banquet (notably the ''Memoirs'' of Olivier de la Marche, and the ''Chroniques'' of Mathieu d'Escouchy), which name and describe in much detail the lavish entertainments staged during the meal and various pieces of music performed at it, perhaps including Dufay's motet ''Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae''.〔Spechtler, Franz Viktor: Lyrik des ausgehenden 14. und des 15. Jahrhunderts. Rodopi, 1984, p. 156〕 At one point in the show, according to the chronicles, an actor dressed as a woman in white satin clothes, personifying the Church of Constantinople (according to one hypothesis, played by Olivier de la Marche himself〔Edmund A. Bowles, ''Instruments at the Court of Burgundy (1363-1467)'', ''The Galpin Society Journal'', Vol. 6, (Jul., 1953), pp. 42-43〕) entered the hall of the banquet riding on an elephant, led by a giant Saracen, to recite a "complaint and lamentation in a piteous and feminine voice" (''"commença sa complainte et lamentacion à voix piteuse et femmenine"''), requesting aid from the Knights of the Golden Fleece. It has been surmised〔Whitwell, David: On music of the courts of Burgundy. ()〕 that this was the moment when Dufay's motet would have been performed; other authors have conjectured that it was merely a moment of inspiration and that the motet was actually written later.〔Cattin, Giulio, Alberto Gallo, Karen Eales: ''Music of the Middle Ages II''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. p. 104, proposes it was written a year later; Spechtler (''op.cit.'') merely states the time and context of its composition is unknown.〕 We are also told which music by Gilles Binchois was performed and of 24 musicians playing inside an enormous pie and a trick with a horse riding backwards. The oath taken by the participants, the ''Vœux du faisan'' ("oath of the pheasant") was in the tradition of the "bird oaths" of Late Medieval France as popularized in the 14th century romance of the ''Voeux du paon''. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Feast of the Pheasant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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