Jocelin de Dijon

Two songs survive attributed to his full name and two further songs survive (without music) credited to an otherwise unidentifiable "Jocelin" in the Berne Chansonnier (CH-BEsu 389 = Trouvère chansonnier C) which may be the work of Jocelin de Dijon.

[1] Of the two pieces securely attributed to him, only A l'entree del dous commencement can be confidently dated.

It was written around 1220 and refers to the absence of a certain Andriu and the Seigneur d'Arsie.

Whereas the poetry is divided into four- and five-line strophes, the melody in the Noailles Chansonnier (F-Pn fr.12615 = Trouvère chansonnier T) is divided into five- and four-line groups (i.e., in opposite order).

Karp claims it was used as a model for the anonymous song Vers Dieu mes fais desirrans sui forment (RS677), found in F-Pn fr.2193, f.11, although this is an assumption based on similar versification, since the ostensible melody transmitted in that source is a fictitious form of musical notation and does not give the real melody.