TROUVÈRES

troovĕrˈ, medieval poet-musicians of central and N France, fl. during the later 12th and the 13th cent. The trouvères imitated the troubadours of the south. Written in the dialect called langue d'oïl, their songs include love lyrics, romances, and the heroic chansons de geste. Chief among the trouvères were Conon de Béthune, Le Châtelain de Coucy, Colin Muset, Renaut de Beaujeu, and Adam de la Halle.

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books on: TrouvEres  - 344 results

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Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvre Repertoire
Book by Mary O'Neill; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Music And Literature--History--To 1500, Trouvere Songs--History And Criticism
...even from the names of the individual trouveres, such as Jacques de Cambrai, Guillaume...Etienne de Meaux; and from the number of trouveres from Arras, including Andrieu Contredit...provided an active focal point for the trouveres, having a guild, known as the Confr6rie...
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Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West
Book by Alec Harman, Anthony Milner, Wilfrid Mellers; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects: Music--History And Criticism
...not the case with the troubadours and trouveres, as a great many names have come down...c . 1250, c . 1250- c . 1300, the trouveres being in the ascendant during the last...Nesles c . 1150-1200 , the first of the trouveres, but who did not discover the dungeon...
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The Early Middle Ages to 1300
Book by Richard Crocker, David Hiley; Oxford University Press, 1990
Subjects: Music--500-1400--History And Criticism
...was exceptional in many ways among the trouveres. He was perhaps the only true jongleur...eds., Chanter mestuet : Songs of the Trouveres London, 1981 , No. 134, give a different...BN fr. 846 . 118 Ed. Van der Werf, Trouveres-Melodien II , p. 199. 119 R94 as...
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Historical Musicology: A Reference Manual for Research in Music
Book by Lincoln Bunce Spiess; Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1963
Subjects: Musicology
...University, 1959. 1179a 2. Troubadours, Trouveres, and Minnesinger Aubry, P., Trouveres et troubadours , 3rd ed. Paris: F. Alcan, n. d. circa 1919 . 1180 Aubry, P., Trouveres and Troubadours , C. Aveling, translator...
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A History of Western Music
Book by Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca; W. W. Norton, 2001
Subjects: Music--History And Criticism
...meant "to find"; thus troubadours and trouveres were finders or inventors of songs...provinces of Champagne and Artois. There the trouveres, active throughout the thirteenth century...modern French. Neither troubadours nor trouveres constituted a well-defined group...
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journal articles on: TrouvEres  - 35 results

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John Haines, Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music
Journal article by Emma Hornby; Medium Aevum, Vol. 74, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music (Book)--Book reviews
...Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music...Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres: The Changing Identity of Medieval Music...Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouveres is aimed at musicologists, but has much...
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O'Neill, Mary. 2006. Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire
Journal article by Susan Boynton; Current Musicology, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire (Book)--Book reviews
...known: scholarship on the music of the trouveres has generally addressed their songs...chronological priority, casting the trouveres as derivative imitators. ONeill seeks to understand the trouveres on their own terms. Given the wealth...
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The Middle French Alchemical Treatises in MS Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 164
Journal article by Tony Hunt; Medium Aevum, Vol. 79, 2010
Subjects: Alchemy--History, Alchemy--Portrayals, Alchemy--Research
...es coses plus prouchaines, ja ne les trouveres es plus longtaines selon nature. Or...prenderes toute le poutre que vous y trouveres, car cest le mauvais souffres qui estoit...40) par .iii. jours et /vous/ trouveres vostre argent en tresfine chaulx blance...
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Mary O'Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire
Journal article by David Maw; Medium Aevum, Vol. 76, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire (Book)--Book reviews
...but comparable volumes dealing with the trouveres are not to be found. In part the greater...comprehensive introduction to or account of the trouveres and their work; but by focusing on their...continuation and innovation of later trouveres (focused on Moniot de Paris), and...
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"Berenger Au Long Cul" and the Pastourelle
Journal article by Katherine A. Brown; Romance Notes, Vol. 47, 2007
...well received in the north where many trouveres, including Jean Bodel--who is often...composed in langue doil mostly by anonymous trouveres are full of such references to settings...eds. Songs of the Troubadours and Trouveres: An Anthology of Poems and Melodies...
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The Meistersingers' Hidden Heritage
Magazine article by Irving Godt; Musical Times, Vol. 144, Winter 2003
Subjects: Civilization, Culture, Germany, History, Music
...poetical repertories of the troubadours in the Languedoc, of the trouveres farther north and, by the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...basic pattern that had been known to the troubadours, the trouveres, the Minnesinger, and others, but the guild singers made...
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Seeger, Springsteen, and American Folk Music
Magazine article by David Thurmaier; Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Vol. 86, Fall 2006
Subjects: American history, Folk music, Musical recordings, Musicians & conductors, Oral tradition, Singers, Singing, Society
...fusion of words and music that continues today is hardly a new one; in medieval France, performers known as troubadours and trouveres journeyed from city to city, singing secular songs written in vernacular French. Their songs usually contained a refrain...
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Keeper of the Keys : Frederic Mistral, Noble Poet of Provence
Magazine article by Timothy Rake; World and I, Vol. 18, December 2003
Subjects: Authors, French, Authors, French--Quotations, Authors, French--Works, French writers--Quotations, French writers--Works, Mistral, Frederic--Quotations, Mistral, Frederic--Works, Poets--Biography, Provence, France
...a dialect of French but rather a linguistic ancestor derived directly from Latin, it was amorously employed by traveling trouveres since the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Although it has its similarities to French vocabulary and syntax, Proveniau is unique...
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A Space between Your Ears: On Radio Drama
Magazine article by Geoffrey Heptonstall; Contemporary Review, Vol. 262, May 1993
Subjects: Radio programs--Evaluation
...Celtic nations with bardic and ballad traditions still. It borders upon a nation with a living tradition derived from the trouveres and troubadours. It borders on another, Celtic nation whose radio can encompass experiments like the reading of Ulysses...
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Wagner's Access to Minnesinger Melodies Prior to Completing Tannhäuser
Magazine article by Larry Bomback; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Composers, Opera, Wagner, Richard (1813-83)
...sheer frequency of the repeated note that seems to distinguish these monophonie melodies from those of the troubadours and trouveres, the Minnesingers French counterparts. Granted, notes repeat themselves all over this opera, and quite frankly, one would...
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Three-Day Planner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 9, 2010
Subjects: Concerts, Drama, Musicians, Plays
...at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Reservations are due by today. It will feature the Batavia High School Madrigals, Trouveres, Lady Singers and Chamber Orchestra. A dessert reception and warm beverages will follow the performance. The concerts will...
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Three-Day Planner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 7, 2010
Subjects: Concerts, Musicians
...full of music and holiday cheer, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It will feature the Batavia High School Madrigals, Trouveres, Lady Singers and Chamber Orchestra. A dessert reception and warm beverages will follow the performance. The concerts will...
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Three-Day Planner
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 6, 2010
Subjects: Computer industry--Social aspects, Concerts--Social aspects, Electronics industry--Social aspects, International Business Machines Corp., Musicians--Social aspects, Stress management--Social aspects
...holiday cheer. The concerts will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It will feature the Batavia High School Madrigals, Trouveres, Lady Singers and Chamber Orchestra. A dessert reception and warm beverages will follow the performance. The concerts will...
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Ensemble to Play Tunes of Medieval Poet
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 29, 2005
...French poet, Machaut was also a prolific composer. His mastery of earlier forms has led some to call him the last of the trouveres, a class of poet-musicians who flourished in northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries But his forward-looking innovations...


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encyclopedia articles on: TrouvEres  - 11 results

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TrouvÈres
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TROUVERES troover , medieval poet-musicians of...the later 12th and the 13th cent. The trouveres imitated the troubadours of the south...heroic chansons de geste . Chief among the trouveres were Conon de Bethune, Le Chatelain...
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Romance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...With the Provencal troubadours the roman was a form of narrative, originally sung but later recited before courts. The trouveres lengthened these into the chansons de geste and the romans daventures, or romances of love and adventure. It is from the...
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Minstrel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Certain very able jongleurs ceased their wanderings and were attached to a court to play or sing the songs of the troubadours or trouveres who employed them. To these and to some itinerant musicians was applied in the 14th cent. the term menetrier and later menestrel...
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German Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...von Eschenbachs Parzival (see Parsifal ), were often based on French troubadour and trouvere sources (see troubadours ; trouveres ), while epics like the Nibelungenlied (see under Nibelungen ) and Gudrun use Germanic traditions. A gradual decline of...
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Jongleurs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Many were skilled in playing musical instruments. The jongleurs were often collaborators or assistants of troubadours or trouveres . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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