Music 1a Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bernart De Ventadorn, Cantiga De Amigo, Chanson De Geste
17 Mar 2016
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Lecture 5: medieval secular song: music outside the church spawned as many different types and forms of song as plain chant, earliest examples, goliard songs, conductus, chanson de geste, jongleurs. Minstrels, musicians of professional class, first appearing in the 10th century. Social outcasts, not noble, not allowed in the court. Laments her failure in love, despite her self-proclaimed charms. 5 strophes, each with 7 lines of text, 7 musical phrases. Strophic: pertaining to poetry in which stanzas are in equivalent form, permitting them to be sung with a single melody. Very indicative of her mental state, her anguish. Ababcdb melody: bernart de ventadorn (1135-1195, troubadour. Rose from low birth to become popular poet and lover of three noble ladies, including eleanor of aquitaine. Canso: a song with courtly love as its subject. Ababcdcd only in rhyme scheme each line receives its own melody. A woman sits in vigo looking out over the sea, awaiting the return of her lover.
