"The Music of the Troubadours" is the first comprehensive critical study of the 315 extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the 12th and 13th centuries, then provides brief biographies of the 42 troubadours whose music survives. The four manuscripts that transmit this music are described in detail, with attention to their genesis in the overlapping roles of composers, singers, and scribes. To examine the poetic traditions within which the troubadours composed, Aubrey discusses genre, versification, and poetic style. An in-depth analysis of melodic forms and styles reveals traits of individual composers and offers a broad view of the chronological development of the music of the troubadours. Performance practice issues such as rhythm, ornamentation, chromatic inflections, and the use of instruments are explored, thus helping modern performers to bring these ancient treasures to life again.
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This is the place to come to learn about the manuscripts, about the copying of text and music, about forms, rhetorical devices, compositional techniques and biographies... a down-to-earth treatment of the discernible facts, ordered according to the types of evidence that survives. It is a book to sober up the discipline." --Times Literary Supplement "Specialists and general readers alike will be grateful to have this fine book ..." -Choice "The book is the fruit of many years of research the information collected, sifted and made available to scholars will be very useful indeed." --The Medieval Review 1/2The Music of the Troubadours studies the 315 extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania, whose poetry and music reflect the social and political milieu of the late medieval Mediterranean world. "[I]nvaluable for musicologists and troubadour scholars interested in knowing about the 'whole song', and it also provides an excellent introduction to troubadour music for the historian, philologist or, indeed, anyone with a passing interest." --David Cashman, Parergon "It is a down-to-earth treatment of the discernible facts, ordered according to the type of evidence that survives. It is a book to sober up the discipline." --Daniel Leech-Wilkinson,Times Literary Supplement "[A] welcome guide for the growing number of performers wishing to recreate these magical treasures from the medieval Midi." --Donna Mayer-Martin, Notes"
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Elizabeth Aubrey is Head of Musicology at The University of Iowa and author of many articles on the troubadours and the trouvères—including articles in the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and in A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music (also from Indiana University Press). She sings and plays medieval and Renaissance music in concert.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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This review is from: The Music of the Troubadours (Music: Scholarship and Performance) (Paperback)
This book is very useful. Mainly I was looking for a book that contained the score of trobadours songs: I found it. Inside I found most of the songs I was looking for.
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I liked very much this book because of its scholarly yet plain approach to the troubaudor's music (not trouvères). It deals with every important aspect of troubaudor music; history, biographies, sources, influence of oral tradition, philological problems (notation, rythm, textual variants, etc.), genres, musical analysis, form, theoretical writtings, performance, etc.There should be more books like this!! Muy recomendable!!
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The art de trobar flourished between 1100 and 1300 in the Midi, or Occitania, the area encompassing Aquitaine, Perigord, Limousin, Auvergne, Gascony, Languedoc, and Provence in the south of present-day France. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extant troubadour melodies, neumatic textures, rims derivatius, extant melodies, troubadours dans, coblas capcaudadas, intrinsic variants, extant melody, troubadour repertoire, music scribe, syllabic texture, troubadour chansonniers, two tornadas, coblas singulars, coblas unissonans, secular monophony, surviving melody, cantus coronatus, surviving melodies, trobar leu, several troubadours, motivic manipulation, coblas doblas, troubadour melody, mensural notation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bernart de Ventadorn, Gaucelm Faidit, Guiraut Riquier, Peire Vidal, Folquet de Marselha, Guiraut de Bornelh, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Bertran de Born, Raimon de Miraval, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Jaufre Rudel, Pons de Capduelh, Arnaut Daniel, Arnaut de Maruelh, Monk of Montaudon, Peire Cardenal, Rigaut de Berbezilh, Raimon Jordan, Aimeric de Belenoi, Berenguier de Palol, Daude de Pradas, Middle Ages, Peire Raimon de Tolosa, Guilhem de Saint Didier, Comtessa de Dia New!
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The art de trobar flourished between 1100 and 1300 in the Midi, or Occitania, the area encompassing Aquitaine, Perigord, Limousin, Auvergne, Gascony, Languedoc, and Provence in the south of present-day France. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extant troubadour melodies, neumatic textures, rims derivatius, extant melodies, troubadours dans, coblas capcaudadas, intrinsic variants, extant melody, troubadour repertoire, music scribe, syllabic texture, troubadour chansonniers, two tornadas, coblas singulars, coblas unissonans, secular monophony, surviving melody, cantus coronatus, surviving melodies, trobar leu, several troubadours, motivic manipulation, coblas doblas, troubadour melody, mensural notation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bernart de Ventadorn, Gaucelm Faidit, Guiraut Riquier, Peire Vidal, Folquet de Marselha, Guiraut de Bornelh, Aimeric de Peguilhan, Bertran de Born, Raimon de Miraval, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Jaufre Rudel, Pons de Capduelh, Arnaut Daniel, Arnaut de Maruelh, Monk of Montaudon, Peire Cardenal, Rigaut de Berbezilh, Raimon Jordan, Aimeric de Belenoi, Berenguier de Palol, Daude de Pradas, Middle Ages, Peire Raimon de Tolosa, Guilhem de Saint Didier, Comtessa de Dia New!
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