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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452220703321

Autore

Doss-Quinby Eglal

Titolo

Songs of the Women Trouvères / / Elizabeth Aubrey, Wendy Pfeffer, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Eglal Doss-Quinby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-281-72283-9

0-300-13375-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

849.120809287

Soggetti

Trouvères

Trouvère songs

Provençal poetry - Women authors

Provençal poetry - Translations into English

French poetry - Women authors - Translations into English

French poetry - To 1500

French poetry - To 1500 - Translations into English

Songs, Old French - Texts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Manuscripts Consulted -- Introduction -- Voices in Dialogue -- Voices in Monologue -- A Circle of Voices -- Voices in Polyphony -- Concordance of Song and Motet Numbers -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouvères, 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 trouvères 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.