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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819723203321

Titolo

Songs of the women trouveres / / edited, translated, and introduced by Eglal Doss-Quinby ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-281-72283-9

0-300-13375-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Altri autori (Persone)

Doss-QuinbyEglal <1953->

Disciplina

849/.120809287

Soggetti

Trouveres

Trouvere songs

Provencal poetry - Women authors

French poetry - To 1500

French poetry - Women authors

Songs, Old French

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 (p. [257]-273) 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.