Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres

Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres
Author: Samuel N. Rosenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134819218

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères

Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
Author: John Haines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2004-07-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1139451790

This 2004 book traces the changing interpretation of troubadour and trouvere music, a repertoire of songs which have successfully maintained public interest for eight centuries, from the medieval chansonniers to contemporary rap renditions. A study of their reception therefore serves to illustrate the development of the modern concept of 'medieval music'. Important stages include sixteenth-century antiquarianism, the Enlightenment synthesis of scholarly and popular traditions and the infusion of archaeology and philology in the nineteenth century, leading to more recent theories on medieval rhythm. More often than now, writers and performers have negotiated a compromise between historical research and a more imaginative approach to envisioning the music of troubadours and trouveres. This book points not so much to a resurrection of medieval music in modern times as to a continuous tradition of interpreting these songs over eight centuries.

The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour, Giraut de Borneil

The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour, Giraut de Borneil
Author: Giraut de Borneil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1989-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780521256353

Amongst the troubadour poets, Giraut de Borneil was one of the most important and influential. This 1989 edition covers Giraut's entire output.

The Music of the Troubadours

The Music of the Troubadours
Author: Elizabeth Aubrey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2000-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253213891

"The Music of the Troubadours is the first comprehensive critical study of the extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, then provides brief biographies of the troubadours whose music survives. The four manuscripts that transmit this music are described in detail, with attention to their genesis in the overlapping roles of composers, singers, and scribes"--Back cover

The Troubadours

The Troubadours
Author: Simon Gaunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1999-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316582620

The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love songs for which the troubadours are renowned, the tradition includes political and satirical poetry, devotional lyrics and bawdy or zany poems. It is also in the troubadour song-books that the only substantial collection of medieval lyrics by women is preserved. This book offers a general introduction to the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays, written by leading scholars from Britain, the US, France, Italy and Spain, trace the historical development and setting of troubadour song, engage with the main trends in troubadour criticism, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to the troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.

Songs of the Women Trouvères

Songs of the Women Trouvères
Author: Eglal Doss-Quinby
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300133758

This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Refuting the long-held notion that there are no extant Old French lyrics by women from this period, the editors of the volume present songs attributed to eight named female trouveres along with a varied selection of anonymous compositions in the feminine voice that may have been composed by women. The book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen polyphonic motets, English translations, and a substantial introduction.

Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France

Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France
Author: Mary J. O'Neill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0198165471

Examines the legacy of the medieval poet composers of Northern France, the trouveres. For many years problems and difficulties concerning the surviving melodies, have prevented us from accessing these songs. This book addresses many of these problems, helping us develop an understanding of the repertoire.

Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle

Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004379487

In Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle, contributors from musicology, literary studies, history, and art history provide an account of the works of 13th-century composer Adam de la Halle, one of the first named authors of medieval vernacular music for whom a complete works manuscript survives. The essays illuminate Adam’s generic transformations in polyphony, drama, debate poetry, and other genres, while also emphasizing his place in a large community of trouvères active in the bustling urban environment of Arras. Exploring issues of authorship and authority, tradition and innovation, the material contexts of his works, and his influence on later generations, this book provides the most complete and up-to-date picture available in English of Adam’s œuvre. Contributors are Alain Corbellari, Mark Everist, Anna Kathryn Grau, John Haines, Anne Ibos-Augé, Daniel E. O’Sullivan, Judith A. Peraino, Isabelle Ragnard, Jennifer Saltzstein, Alison Stones, Carol Symes, and Eliza Zingesser.

A Handbook of the Troubadours

A Handbook of the Troubadours
Author: F. R. P. Akehurst
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520913000

This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which is celebrated in the elaborately rhymed stanzas of troubadour verse, creations whose words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over medieval Europe. The words of about 2,500 troubadour songs have survived, along with 250 melodies, and all have come under intense scholarly scrutiny. This Handbook brings together the fruits of this scrutiny, giving teachers and students an overview of the fundamental issues in troubadour scholarship. All quotations are given in the original Old Occitan and in English. The editors provide a list of troubadour editions and an index, and each chapter includes a list of additional readings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning