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Songs of the Women Trouvères

Joan Tasker Grimbert

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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 France 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. This book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, English translations, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen polyphonic motets, and a substantial introduction.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: March 11, 2001

ISBN: 0300084129

ISBN 13: 9780300084122

Songs of the Women Trouvères

Joan Tasker Grimbert

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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 France 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. This book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, English translations, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen polyphonic motets, and a substantial introduction.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release: March 11, 2001

ISBN: 0300084129

ISBN 13: 9780300084122

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