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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Troubadours"”.
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Women Troubadours in Southern France
<p>In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries women troubadours in southern France called trobairitz participated in dialogue or debate poems called tensons with male troubadours. Of the nine existing tensons that include a male and a female voice, we will only analyze five tensons with the known …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
This research investigates questions of how to understand troubadour song as music, in the absence of musical notation for most of the repertory, how troubadour song influenced social structures of music-making, and the extent to which troubadour song interacts with other aspects medieval culture. …
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The Transformative Power of Love: The Negation of the Subject in Mysticism and Troubadour Fin' Amors
… This dissertation compares the works of select troubadours with three mystical tracts in order to present the similarities found in these two literary traditions. Mystical writings have a far longer history reaching into antiquity and continuing until the present day. The traces in the …
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Between Occitania and Al-Andalus: Reconsidering the Emergence of Troubadour Melody Through Algorithmic Analysis
<p>How the musical and poetic traditions of the troubadours arose remains unknown, despite a century of scholarship that has attempted to account for their seemingly <em>ex nihilo</em> appearance in late twelfth-century Europe. Scholarly debate was particularly intense during the first half of the …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… story in poetic form, originally performed by troubadours and trouvères. This form is most present in manuscript examples from the 12th to the 14th century. The stories involve simple characters, word play and idiomatic expressions. I argue that literary mechanisms are used in these …
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Digital Approaches to Troubadour Song
The troubadours were poet-composers who flourished in Occitania (today southern France) and surrounding areas during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Their lyric poems survive in chansonniers (songbooks) which usually contain only the texts. A fraction of the melodies that accompanied these …
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'Want in minnezaken ben ik jou de baas.' Lyriek en muziek in de chansons van vrouwelijke troubadours in de twaalfde en dertiende eeuw in het zuiden van Frankrijk
Contains fulltext : 30194_wantinmib.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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"Los motz e.l so": words melody, and their interaction in the songs of Folquet de Marseille
Although the poems of the troubadours have been extensively studied almost since they were first composed and the troubadours themselves indicate that they tried to create interactions between the melodies and the words, the melodies and the interactions between the poems and melodies in the …
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Musicians Who Busk: Identity, Career, and Community in New Orleans Street Performance
… marginalized or seen as deviant, these urban troubadours regard themselves as professional entertainers who adhere to ethical standards and business practices. This study is an analysis of these performers that includes a description of their cluster of performing activities, the concomitant …
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The self-conscious chanson : creative responses to the art versus commerce debate
… of self-consciousnessc an be traced back to the troubadours, this thesis will argue that the specifically self interrogatory nature of self-consciousness found in modern French chanson can be attributed to artists responding to the 'art versus commerce' debate. It is precisely through their …
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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
… derivation that Petrarch shares with the troubadours, specifically focusing on Petrarch’s debt to Arnaut Daniel. Chapter 3 explores the role of allegory in Petrarch’s animal imagery as compared with Dante’s poetry. Chapter 4 considers how the employment of animal images varies between the …