In 1819, poet John Keats longed for a wine "tasting of Flora and the country green, dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth." Ever since, the sung poetry of medieval southern France has exemplified a cultural golden age. Working in the vanished Occitan or langue d'oc (language of the south) variant of Old French rather than in the Latin of ...
The Art of Courtly Love takes center stage on Duo Trobairitz's Hyperion CD The Language of Love, which is devoted to French troubadour and trouvère songs of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. These are monophonic songs originally performed in the courts of France of that day, and performing them in modern times has proven a challenge; as ...
This 1989 release by the English ensemble Sinfonye was among the earlier attempts to imagine a full context for the rather sketchy remnants of medieval secular music that have come down to us. The album contains a selection of pieces by the troubadours of southern France in the time of Eleanor of Aquitaine (ca. 1122-1204), who later became Queen ...
This disc, recorded in 1987, has had several resurrections that have been entirely well-deserved, for it is, insofar as such a thing is possible, a convincing and historically reasonable re-creation of a medieval legend aimed at general listeners. The romance of Tristan and Iseult, known above all through Richard Wagner's gigantist operatic ...
Dance music from the medieval era is hardly thick on the ground; a complete accounting of such works only adds up to about 70 to 80 pieces, most crammed into the odd margins of manuscript sources otherwise devoted to sacred or court music. One medieval source that forms an exception to the rule is Le Manuscrit du Roi, shelfmark fonds français 844 ...
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