Music Of The Troubadours

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Cat No: 8554257

Release Date: 01 January 2000

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Music of the Troubadours

Description
Music of theTroubadoursThe poems and songs of the troubadours provide a repertoire of earlyEuropean secular song. It is usual to distinguish the poets and musicians ofthe Occitanian tradition of southern France from those who flourished slightlylater in the north, the first as troubadours and the second as trouv?¿res.The troubadours themselves, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, were,in general, not the wandering minstrels of nineteenth-century imagination, butoften of high social position, kings, princes and lords, however limited theirdomains. Among these poets, however, there were individuals of lower socialstatus, sons of shopkeepers and tradesmen. All, though, were influenced by atradition and by conventions of the court and by courtly notions of idealisedlove, its joys and sorrows. Other subjects of all kinds occur, political,satirical, apologetic or bawdy. The language of the troubadours, the langued'oc, is Proven?ºal and closely related variants, to be greatly distorted bythe trouv?¿res. The activities of the troubadours extended into Cataloniaand into Italy. A large number of troubadour poems survive and a fairlysubstantial body of monodic music, offering a single melodic line following therhythm and pattern of the verse set.The present anthology of troubadour music and verse opens with Tantm'abelis by Berenguier de Palou, who flourished in the early twelfthcentury. His place of birth seems to have been Palol, near Elne, in thedistrict of Rousillon, at the modern border between France and Spain. The sonof an impoverished knight, he is one of the earliest of the Catalantroubadours. Tant m'abelis consists of five seven-line stanzas, eachline including ten syllables. These decasyllabic lines rhyme in the patternABBACDD, with the same rhymes continued in each stanza. There is a furtherexample of his work in Ai tal domna, a setting of an eight-line stanzaof seven-syllable lines, rhyming ABABCCDD. There follows an instrumentalversion of the anonymous twelfth-century Domna, pos vos ay chausida.No puesc sofrir is the work of the troubadour Giraut de Bornelh, whoseestampie, Reis glorios is also included. The latter is an alba, acomposition that marks the parting of a couple at dawn (alba), after anight together, perhaps observed by a third party, a watchman. The music byGiraut is one of only two surviving musical examples, while there are ninesurviving examples of the texts. Giraut was born at Excideuilh, near Perigueuxin about 1140 and died at the turn of the century. Of relatively humbleparentage, he rose to be respected as the master of the troubadours andquotations from his work are included, with those of other troubadour poets, inDante's De vulgari eloquentia, evidence of his contemporary reputation.Four of his 79 surviving poems are preserved with their music. No puescsofrir consists of ten eight-syllable lines, rhyming ABABCDDCDD. The contrafactum,an imitation, following current practice, follows the same pattern, usingthe same rhym
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