Songs of the Women Trouveres

ISBN-13: 9780300084139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str.

Eglal Doss-Quinby; Joan Tasker Grimbert; Wendy Pfeffer

Opis

This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Refuting the long-held notion that there are no extant Old French lyrics by women from this period, the editors of the volume present songs attributed to eight named female trouveres along with a varied selection of anonymous compositions in the feminine voice that may have been composed by women. The book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen polyphonic motets, English translations, and a substantial introduction.