Author: Samuel N. RosenbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134819218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres
Author: Samuel N. RosenbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134819218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères
Author: John HainesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139451790
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
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 Chansons of the Troubadours and Trouvères
Author: Hendrik Van der WerfPublisher: Utrecht : A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Songs of the Women Trouvères
Author: Eglal Doss-QuinbyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133758
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
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.
Trouvères and Troubadours
Author: Pierre AubryPublisher: New York ; London : G. Schirmer
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Stolen Song
Author: Eliza ZingesserPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501747630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs. Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the "Frenchness" of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history. Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.
Words and Music in the Middle Ages
Author: John StevensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521245074
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This book examines the relation of words and music in England and France during the three centuries following the Norman Conquest. The basic material of the study includes the chansons of the troubadours and trouvères and the varied Latin songs of the period. In addition to these 'lyric' forms, the author discusses the relations of music and poetry in dance-song, in narrative and in the ecclesiastical drama. Professor Stevens examines the ready-made, often unconscious, and misleading assumptions we bring to the study and performance of early music. In particular he affirms the importance of Number, in more than one sense, as a clue to the 'aesthetic' of the greater part of repertoire, to the relation of words and melody. and to the baffling problem of their rhythmic interpretation. This is the first wide-ranging study of words and music in this period in any language. It will be essential reading for scholars of the music and the literature of medieval Europe and will provide a basic and comprehensive introduction to the repertoire for students.
The Chansons of the Troubadours and Trouvères
Author: Hendrik Van der WerfPublisher: Utrecht : A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Music of the Troubadours
Author: Elizabeth AubreyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253213891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"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
Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
Author: Sarah KayPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150176389X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouvères from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating them in their immediate period, Sarah Kay fruitfully listens for and traces crosscurrents between medieval French and Occitan songs and both earlier poetry and much later opera. Reflecting on a song's songlike quality—as, for example, the sound of light in the dawn sky, as breathed by beasts, as sirenlike in its perils—Kay reimagines the diversity of songs from this period, which include inset lyrics in medieval French narratives and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, as works that are as much desired and imagined as they are actually sung and heard. Kay understands song in terms of breath, the constellations, the animal soul, and life itself. Her method also draws inspiration from opera, especially those that inventively recreate medieval song, arguing for a perspective on the manuscripts that transmit medieval song as instances of multimedia, quasi-operatic performances. Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera features a companion website (cornellpress.manifoldapp.org/projects/medieval-song) hosting twenty-four audio or video recordings, realized by professional musicians specializing in early music, of pieces discussed in the book, together with performance scores, performance reflections, and translations of all recorded texts. These audiovisual materials represent an extension in practice of the research aims of the book—to better understand the sung dimension of medieval song.