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Songs of the Women Trouvères

Elizabeth Aubrey author Eglal Doss-Quinby author Wendy Pfeffer author Joan Tasker Grimbert author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Yale University Press

Published:11th Mar '01

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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.

ISBN: 9780300084139

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 522g

304 pages