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Free Download Eglal Doss-Quinby, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Wendy Pfeiffer, "Songs of the Women Trouveres"
English | 2001 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 0300084129, 0300084137 | PDF | 5,2 mb
This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Refuting the long-held notion that there are no extant Old France lyrics by women from this period, the editors of the volume present songs attributed to eight named female trouveres along with a varied selection of anonymous compositions in the feminine voice that may have been composed by women. This book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, English translations, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen polyphonic motets, and a substantial introduction.