Oede de la Couroierie

Oede de la Couroierie (died 1294), also known as Eude de Carigas and Odo de Corigiaria, was a trouvère of Artois. He is documented beginning in 1270 as a clerk in the house of Count Robert II, who often sent him on diplomatic missions. He served Robert until his death. His will, made in June 1294, provides for both his widow with her three children and a mistress with her two. His will calls him both Odon de Paris and Odon de Saint-Germain. He was probably born in the Île-de-France, near Paris.

Songs and their models

All five of Oede's known songs are part of contrafact networks In most cases, the act of contrafaction is clearly Oede's because the author of the song with which his song shares a melody is a much earlier trouvère.

Two of Oede's songs (RS215 and RS1740) use the same melody by Gace Brulé. All three songs are copied in TrouvK (the 'Arsenal chansonnier') and TrouvN (and did appear in TrouvX before folios were lost). But Gace's song also appears copied more widely, featuring in two other chansonnier families. Another of Oede's songs uses the melody of a clearly earlier song by Blondel de Nesle. Of the remaining two songs, one shares a melody with a song by the near-contemporary Raoul de Soissons and the other with a song that is transmitted anonymously, making relative chronology harder to establish.

List of songs

Using the melody of Gace Brulé, Desconfortés plain d'ire et de pesance (RS233):

• Desconfortés com cil qui est sans joie (RS1740)
• Tout soit mes cuers en grant desesperance(RS215)

Using the melody of Blondel de Nesle, A l'entrant d'esté (RS620):

• Trop ai longuement fait grant consirvance (RS210)

Using the melody of Raoul de Soissons, Rois de Navarre et sire de virtu (RS2063):

• Ma derreniere veul fere en chantant (RS321), copied in TrouvK pp.200-201, TrouvN fol.96r-v, and in a lost part of TrouvX.

Using the melody of the anonymous Au repairier que je fis de Provence (RS642):

• Chançon ferai par grant desesperance (RS216)

References

• Falck, Robert. "Oede de la Couroierie." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Accessed 20 September 2008.