And when you sober up from drinking have you seen a thousand petals If not going off with the current, then going off with the Wind? Both lyrics have the wonderful anonymity of mid-11th century songs, And celebrate spring. both involve acts of address. the claim that the flowers get redder every year is a fine conceit, the impression of a subject who himself is aging. There are, however, two rhyme periods with no known source. To organize and interpret the data, I heuristically approach music as performance and discourse through which people negotiate their every-day and expressive lives. Other than these sources, there are only a small number of historical notated scores, technical treatises, paintings, and material evidences from the period. Reading and interpreting literary writings for musical evidence are, however, daunting tasks; They require theoretical justifications and practical strategies. The poem projects a beautiful and Sonic Vista, but what it reports on singing and dancing is non-specific.