Daude de Pradas

Daude, Deude, Daurde, or Daudé de Pradas (fl. 1214–1282) was a troubadour from Prades-Salars in the Rouergue not far from Rodez. He lived to an old age and left behind seventeen to nineteen cansos, including twelve on courtly love, three about sexual conquest, one tenso, one planh (on the death of Uc Brunenc), and a religious song. A canon and magister of the name Deodatus de Pradas or Pratis appears in many documents from Rodez in the same time period. and wrote a treatise on falconry entitled Auzels Cassadors. But when he finally encounters his Joi Novel (new joy) in her castle, her haughtiness is unbearable: on mi mostret tant gran orguoill cum si tengues del mon la clau.

Daude's surviving music has some features in common with Gui d'Ussel, to whom he refers in his tenso, but it is less motivically varied than Gui's. It, too, however, is through-composed.

Works A picture of Daude accompanies his vida in the manuscript. He is portrayed with a tonsure. Ab lo douz temps que renovella Anc mais hom tan ben non amet Ben ay' Amors, quar anc me fes chauzir De lai on son tug miei desir Pois Merces no.m val ni m'ajuda Puois amors vol e comanda Si per amar ni per servir Tan sen al cor un amoros desir Trop ben m'estera si.s tolgues El temps que.l rossignols s'esgau En un sonet guay e leugier No cugiey mais ses comjat far chanso Qui finamen sap cossirar Amors m'envida e-m somo No.m puesc mudar que no-m ressit Del bel dezir que Joys Novels m'adutz Ben deu esser solatz marritz Sitot m'ai pres un pauc de dan Al temps d'estiu, qan s'alegron l'ausel D'ome fol ni desconoisen