ENGL 345 Lecture Notes - F. M. Cornford, Quatrain, Courtly Love
5 Dec 2012
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A and b are consistent throughout the poem. The recurring refrain occurs at the end of the second and third stanzas. Originally a musical form from the 11th to 13th c. Eventually developed a poetic form from the music. Songs about courtly love and chivalry (jean renart"s rouman de la rose) There are not a lot of written works still around other than this. One person singing to two or more people singing the same chant line at different points (sometimes at counterchant) Music was becoming too complex for everyone to master both the poetry and the music, so they were divorced from one another near the end of the 14th c. The rondeau that we know today was different from the rondon, which was the musical form. This was very popular in the 15th c after the ballad in the 14th c. Charles, duke of orleans wrote rondeau in prison, and made it popular.
