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Jeanne d'Arc - Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
Musical tributes
 For nearly six centuries Jeanne d’Arc has inspired composers, musicians, singers that have creating amazing Musical tributes. The following lists cover various musical works, include representations in popular culture and operas and oratorios. Lesser known works, particularly from early periods, are not included. Most survive only in research libraries.  

In 1894 Émile Huet listed over 400 plays and musical works about Jeanne d’Arc Despite a great deal of scholarly interest in Jeanne d’Arc no complete list of artistic works about her exists, although a 1989 doctoral dissertation did identify all relevant films including ones for which no copy survives.
Image examples of various albums
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Radio & Recording Rarities
"Joan of Arc is burned at the stake" May 30, 1431.
Old time radio recording of CBS IS THERE "News Broadcasts"


CBS IS THERE, later renamed YOU ARE THERE was a completely different kind of program. CBS broke new ground when they sent "reporters" and "correspondents" into dramatized re-enactments of important historical events.

There these CBS people reported on the action as it happened.They interviewed the main players along with fast, breath-taking news taking the radio audience into the eye of the storm. The series was aired from 1947 to 1950. Total of 90 shows, where one of them was about Jeanne d'Arc.


Hear this amazing radio show.
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World War I patriot Song, 1917 Columbia records.
Joan of Arc - Performed by Henry Burr.

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Another version by Vernon Dalhart
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Lyrics:
While you are sleeping, Your France is weeping
Wake from your dreams, Maid of France.
Her heart is bleeding; Are you unheeding?
Come with the flame in your glance;
Through the Gates of Heaven, with your sword in hand,
Come your legions to command.

Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc,
Do your eyes, from the skies, see the foe?
Don't you see the drooping Fleur-de-lis?
Can't you hear the tears of Normandy?
Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc,
Let your spirit guide us through;
Come lead your France to victory;
Joan of Arc, they are calling you.

Alcace is sighing, Lorraine is crying,
Their mother, France, looks to you.
Her sons at Verdun; Bearing the burden,
Pray for your coming anew;
At the Gates of Heaven, do they bar your way?
Souls that passed through yesterday.

Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc,
Do your eyes, from the skies, see the foe?
Don't you see the drooping Fleur-de-lis?
Can't you hear the tears of Normandy?
Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc,
Let your spirit guide us through;
Come lead your France to victory;
Joan of Arc, they are calling you.

Popular culture music, operas and musicals.

Date Artist/Group Title Notes
1845 Giuseppe Verdi Giovanna d'Arco Opera. Plot influenced by Schiller.
1873 - 1877 Text by Jules Barbier with music by Charles Gounod. Jeanne d'Arc Lyric drama in 5 acts.
1878 Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovski The Maid of Orleans Opera. Plot influenced by Schiller.
1939 Text by Paul Claudel with music by Arthur Honegger 1939 Dramatic oratorio. This deeply religious portrayal ends with the founder of the Inquisition accusing Jeanne's judges of heresy.
1953 Musical adaptation by Georges Brassens of a poem by François Villon Ballade des Dames du temps jadis Dramatic oratorio. Though little known outside France, Brassens set a number of complex poems to music and often performed them himself.
1966 Leonard Bernstein (music) Choruses from The Lark, play by Jean Anouilh Set of choral pieces. Part of Bernstein's incidental score for a production of the play in an adaptation by Lillian Hellman.
1970 Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate (album) Contains a song named "Joan of Arc," and a verse in the song "Last Year's Man" that refers to her: "I met a lady, she was playing with her soldiers in the dark, oh one by one she had to tell them that her name was Joan of Arc."
1971 Text by James Lineberger; music by Hank Ruffin and Gary Ruffin The Survival of St. Joan Rock opera. Deals with a legend of Jeanne d'Arc escaping burning and kept in the home of a shepherd.
1975 Patti Smith Horses (album) In the song "Kimberly" there is a verse that begins: "Ah, here I stand again in this old 'lectric whirlwind,/The sea rushes up my knees like flame/ And I feel like just some misplaced Joan Of Arc/And the cause is you lookin' up at me."
1980 Lene Lovich Flex (album) Sings about Jeanne d'Arc in "Joan" (track 9)
1981 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Architecture & Morality (album) Released two singles "Joan of Arc" and "Maid of Orleans."
1983 Ole Schmidt Jeanne d'Arc. (film score) Music for Carl Th. Dreyers' silent film 1928 The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc.
1986 The Smiths "Bigmouth Strikes Again" (song) Includes the line "And now I know how Joan of Arc felt, as the flames rose to her Roman nose and her Walkman started to melt," and "And now I know how Joan of Arc felt, as the flames rose to her Roman nose and her hearing aid started to melt."
1988 - 1993 Silverfish "This Bug" (song) Includes the lyrics, "Sometimes I feel like Joan of Arc -- the way I bite, and spit and bark."
1995 Joan of Arc The name of an indie rock band from Chicago. formed 1995
1995 Garbage "Vow" (song) Includes the line "You burned me out but I'm back at your door, like Joan of Arc coming back for more."
1996 Richard Einhorn Voices of Light. (film score) Oratorio. Music for Carl Th. Dreyers' silent film 1928 The Passion of Jeanne d'Arc. Frequently performed during screenings of the film; uses sacred texts as well as texts by various medieval mystics, including Hildegard of Bingen.
1998 Janne Da Arc Japanese rock band named after the character in the manga Devilman by Go Nagai. First release 1998.
1999 Catatonia "Post Script" (song) Includes the line "Joan of Arc, come kiss my art, leave a charcoal mark. There's so much more to solitary refinement."
1999 Tal Bachman "She's So High" (song) Includes the line "She's so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite."
2002 Elton John (music), Bernie Taupin (lyrics) "Did Anybody Sleep With Joan Of Arc?" (song) A summary of Jeanne d'Arc's life.
Ayumi Hamasaki “Free & Easy” (song) Japanese singer and songwriter, based the lyrics and music video for her single from her interpretation on Jeanne d'Arc's feelings. She also produced a photobook entitled "Hamasaki Republic - Free & Easy" where she was dressed as a warrior, a nun, and a knight.
2004 Low (band) A Lifetime of Temporary Relief (album) Minnesota-based indie rock band released two versions of their song "Joan of Arc."
2005 Marduk Plague Angel (album) Black metal/norsecore band from Sweden, have a song entitled Everything Bleeds, which is about Jeanne d'Arc.
2005 Kate Bush Aerial (album) Sings about Jeanne d'Arc in "Joanni."
2005 Thy Majestie Jeanne d'Arc (album) Concept album about Jeanne d'Arc by a power metal band from Italy.
2006 Tangerine Dream Jeanne d'Arc (album) Musical tribute to Jeanne d'Arc performed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the French Cathedral in Berlin.