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Includes Audio CD First-of-its-kind compilationThis anthology, the first of its kind, offers a broad, representative selection of lyric compositions by the poet-musicians of 12th- and 13th-century France: the groundbreaking Provencal troubadours of the south-the originators of "courtly love"-and their northern counterparts, the trouveres. The fruit of both musicological and philological expertise, the collection is an invaluable resource for musical performers no less than students of early poetry. Most songs accompanied by musicThe 144 songs, authoritatively edited from medieval manuscripts, comprise works by 25 troubadours and 27 trouveres, including a number of anonymous pieces. Most are accompanied by their music. All are presented with parallel English translations. The selection ranges across the various surviving types of lyric production, from the high style of the "cansos "to women's ballad-like weaving songs and the first motets. Provides historical and cultural contextThree introductory essays treat the history and cultural significance of this repertory, its themes and forms, the relation between text and melody, manuscript transmission and the question of critical edit

Author

Becker, Peter; Eisenstein, Robert; Le Vot, Gérard; Rosenberg, Samuel N.; Switten, Margaret Louise

Publisher

Garland Publishing, Incorporated

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134819218

Subjects

Poetry, Music, Short Stories