The Music of the Troubadours

The Music of the Troubadours PDF Author: Elizabeth Aubrey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253213891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Book Description
"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