Troubadour

Author : Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521574730

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The Troubadours by Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay Pdf

The dazzling culture of the troubadours - the virtuosity of their songs, the subtlety of their exploration of love, and the glamorous international careers some troubadours enjoyed - fascinated contemporaries and had a lasting influence on European life and literature. Apart from the refined love songs for which the troubadours are renowned, the tradition includes political and satirical poetry, devotional lyrics and bawdy or zany poems. It is also in the troubadour song-books that the only substantial collection of medieval lyrics by women is preserved. This book offers a general introduction to the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned essays, written by leading scholars from Britain, the US, France, Italy and Spain, trace the historical development and setting of troubadour song, engage with the main trends in troubadour criticism, and examine the reception of troubadour poetry. Appendices offer an invaluable guide to the troubadours, to technical vocabulary, to research tools and to surviving manuscripts.

Author : Elizabeth Aubrey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253213894

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The Music of the Troubadours by Elizabeth Aubrey Pdf

"The Music of the Troubadours is the first comprehensive critical study of the extant melodies of the troubadours of Occitania. It begins with an overview of their social and political milieu in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, then provides brief biographies of the 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"--Back cover

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3025346

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Troubadour by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1879-12-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590993406

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The Troubadour by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ann Alexander
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781946515179

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The Troubadour's Collection by Ann Alexander Pdf

“Ever wondered what that word meant?” “Oh… that was fancy, how did the speaker choose that word?” “Ah… what a powerful speech, wish I am so spontaneous!” As a matter of fact, it puzzles us when we think how someone can speak so eloquently. In fact, we can do it too! But how? Nope, it’s not easy to memorize a 600-page dictionary. Have you ever tried learning… in a fun way? You’ll be amazed at the tenfold better result. Well, the book you have in your hand is a choicest tool to get started! The Troubadour’s Collection is a promise to take you through an amazing world of inspirational poems, where you get to experience being a weekender, view the splash of colors shooting up your first missile, laugh your heads-off at the emperor’s new clothes and dare to walk with the graveyard’s host… and guess what? You would have already picked up new words, improving your vocabulary in a fun way!

Author : Emma Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086811924

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The Forgot-me-not, Or The Troubadour's Vow by Emma Rogers Pdf

Author : F. R. P. Akehurst,Judith M. Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520913004

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A Handbook of the Troubadours by F. R. P. Akehurst,Judith M. Davis Pdf

This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which is celebrated in the elaborately rhymed stanzas of troubadour verse, creations whose words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over medieval Europe. The words of about 2,500 troubadour songs have survived, along with 250 melodies, and all have come under intense scholarly scrutiny. This Handbook brings together the fruits of this scrutiny, giving teachers and students an overview of the fundamental issues in troubadour scholarship. All quotations are given in the original Old Occitan and in English. The editors provide a list of troubadour editions and an index, and each chapter includes a list of additional readings.

Author : Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner,Laurie Shepard,Sarah White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135577797

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Songs of the Women Troubadours by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner,Laurie Shepard,Sarah White Pdf

This work offers an edition and translation of some 30 poems by the trobairitz, a remarkable group of women poets from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who composed in the style and language of the troubadours. Introductory essays and notes by specialists in the field place the poems in literary, linguistic, historical, social and cultural contexts. English versions facing Occitan texts elucidate the original language and themes, while supplying poems that can be enjoyed by contemporary readers . The varied corpus includes love songs (cansos), debate poems (tensos), political satires (sirventes) and other lyrical sub-genres (including dawn-song, lament, ballad, chanson de mal mariee). To represent the range of female voices available in the lyric corpus of the troubadours, the editors have selected songs consistently attributed to historically documented women poets, as well as songs whose authorship is open to question. The latter may be presented by the manuscripts with or without a named woman poet, but all offer female speakers personae characteristic of troubadour poets in general.

Author : John Frederick Rowbotham
Publisher : London : New York : S. Sonnenschein ; Macmillan
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : IND:30000126311202

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The Troubadours and Courts of Love by John Frederick Rowbotham Pdf

Author : Robert A Taylor
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580442084

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A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature by Robert A Taylor Pdf

Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become apparent that this moment was merely a plateau from which an intensive renewal was being launched. In this new bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature, Robert Taylor provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the fifteenth-century works of Occitano-Catalan poet Jordi de Sant Jordi - and treats over two thousand recent books and articles with full annotations. Taylor includes articles on related topics such as practical approaches to the language of the troubadours and the musicology of select troubadour songs, as well as articles situated within sociology, religious history, critical methodology, and psychoanalytical analysis. Each listing offers descriptive comments on the scholarly contribution of each source to Occitan literature, with remarks on striking or controversial content, and numerous cross-references that identify complementary studies and differing opinions. Taylor's painstaking attention to detail and broad knowledge of the field ensure that this guide will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

Author : Justin Martell
Publisher : Jawbone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1908279877

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Eternal Troubadour by Justin Martell Pdf

As Bing Crosby once put it, Tiny Tim represents 'one of the most phenomenal success stories in show business'. In 1968, after years of playing dive bars and lesbian cabarets on the Greenwich Village scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce, the forty-something falsetto-voiced, ukulele-playing Tiny Tim landed a recording contract with Sinatra's Reprise label and an appearance on NBC's Laugh-In. The resulting album, God Bless Tiny Tim, and its single, 'Tip-toe Thru' The Tulips With Me', catapulted him to the highest levels of fame. Soon, Tiny was playing to huge audiences in the USA and Europe, while his marriage to the seventeen-year-old 'Miss' Vicki was broadcast on The Tonight Show in front of an audience of fifty million. Before long, however, his star began to fade. Miss Vicki left him, his earnings evaporated, and the mainstream turned its back on him. He would spend the rest of his life trying to revive his career, with many of those attempts taking a turn toward the absurd. But while he is often characterized as an oddball curio, Tiny Tim was a master interpreter and student of early American popular song, and his story is one of Shakespearean tragedy framed around a bizarre yet loveable public persona. Here, drawing on dozens of new interviews, never-before-seen diaries, and years of original research, author Justin Martell brings that story to life with the first serious biography of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in popular music.

Author : Martin Walker
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593313985

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To Kill a Troubadour by Martin Walker Pdf

When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists’ ire, and it’s up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, “Song for Catalonia,” when the Spanish government suddenly bans the song. The songwriter, Joel Martin, is a local enthusiast for the old Occitan language of Périgord and the medieval troubadours, and he sympathizes with the Catalan bid for independence. The success of his song provokes outrage among extreme Spanish nationalists. Then, in a stolen car found on a Périgord back road, police discover a distinctive bullet for a state-of-the-art sniper's rifle that can kill at three kilometers, and they fear that Joel might be the intended target. The French and Spanish governments agree to mount a joint operation to stop the assailants, and Bruno is the local man on the spot who mobilizes his resources to track them down. While Bruno tries to keep the peace, his friend Florence reaches out for help. Her abusive ex-husband is about to be paroled from prison and she fears he will return to reclaim their children. Will Bruno and Florence be able to prevent this unwanted visit? Despite the pressures, there is always time for Bruno to savor les plaisirs of the Dordogne around the table with friends.

Author : Lauren St John
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007161255

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Hardcore Troubadour by Lauren St John Pdf

If Steve Earle weren't a living, breathing person, he'd be a character in a blues song -- a raucous ballad about a gifted rebel who drank too much, lost most of his women in a blizzard of crack and cocaine addiction, and always came out on the wrong side of the law. Somewhere in the midst of all this, he also managed to weld rock to country, the Beatles to Springsteen, and bluegrass to punk, establishing himself among the most thoroughly original and politically astute musicians of his generation. Granted unrestricted access to Steve and his family and friends, Lauren St John has given us a sometimes shocking, often moving, and completely unvarnished biography of one of America's most talismanic sons.

Author : Mary Hoffman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599907703

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Troubadour by Mary Hoffman Pdf

A story of persecution and poetry, love and war set in 13th century Southern France. As crusaders sweep through the country, destroying all those who do not follow their religion, Bertrand risks his life to warn others of the invasion. As a troubadour, Bertrand can travel without suspicion from castle to castle, passing word about the coming danger. In the meantime Elinor, a young noblewoman, in love with Bertrand, leaves her comfortable home and family and becomes a troubadour herself. Danger encircles them both, as the rising tide of bloodshed threatens the fabric of the society in which they live.

Author : Ruth Harvey,Linda M. Paterson
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Debates and debating in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215135125

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The Troubadour Tensos and Partimens by Ruth Harvey,Linda M. Paterson Pdf

Troubadour Tensos and Partimens : A Critical Edition