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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"troubadour."”.
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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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An Allegorical-Figural Reading of the Troubadour Love Lyric
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The Artist as Troubadour: Exploring Creative Encounter through Song, Travel and Story
… embodiment, embodied learning/practice, as a troubadour I am both ‘method’ and ‘medium’; qualities of ‘liveness’, ‘spontaneity’, ‘flow’ and ‘feel’ in an experiential process, and the transformative potential of song performance to become a conduit for connection.
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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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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
… 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. The …
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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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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… of medieval Europe was influenced by the French troubadour poets, the poets were themselves influenced by the Arabian love poetry of Spain during the Islamic caliphate. The theme of forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love tales of chivalry that came out of medieval Europe. The …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… to demonstrate specifically how her patronage of troubadour poetry extolling women brought civilizing changes to France and England, and merged chivalry and romantic love. The poetry was influenced by a renewed enthusiasm for worship of the Virgin Mary and by the lyric quality of Hispano-Arabic …
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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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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
… of traditional animal images, such as those in troubadour poetry; the question of allegory in the Rvf; and the language and communication strategies which characterise Petrarch’s poetic exchanges. Chapter 1 introduces a theoretical framework, based on the sources in Petrarch’s possession, which …
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‘Sîn liet erklang im schône…’: A Reassessment of the Role of the Fiddle and Harp in the Performance of Minnesang (c. 1170–c. 1340)
… the question of instrumental accompaniment in troubadour and trouvère song has been researched intensively and a general consensus reached—namely, that it was performed a cappella or with minimal accompaniment of fiddle or harp—the issue has been effectively ignored in the equivalent German …
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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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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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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 …