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Examples of troubadour

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For example, a sizable body of musical settings in the so-called genre troubadour survives from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries.
First, regularity of strophic constructions and tight rhyme schemes are especially cultivated by the troubadours to impose structure on an unruly vernacular language.
Instead, he interprets and uncovers it in a creative tradition of eight centuries, historicizing troubadours and trouveres continuously.
Finally, with the troubadours, the musical aspect of the refrain is much less in evidence.
The latter claim a special distinction as living descendants of the original troubadours; the former views himself as more remotely related to medieval music.
This brief etymological sketch makes clear that ' troubadour' is more than a generic signifier.
Indeed, musicians have always been travellers: from troubadours to today's rock stars, musicians travel the world.
The troubadours, who have a prominent place both in traditional medieval music study and in popular culture, illustrate this well.
The issue at hand is the detailed proof that troubadour and trouvere repertories have always been objects of thought and scrutiny.
The frequency of refrain words in troubadour song as compared to versus can in part be explained by certain aspects of versification.
We do not have enough early troubadour melodies, and none written down at the moment these troubadours flourished, to make full comparisons.
The purpose of his article was, of course, to demonstrate that this new interpretation of troubadour and trouvere melodies was wrong.
One thing it is not is old music: ' it's the music of the time and of the troubadour, true folk music'.
Haines writes a chronologically ordered history of troubadours and trouveres while focusing on écriture, on the perception and writing down of music.
The troubadour word refrain easily becomes a locus for experimentation.
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