Songs of the Women Trouvères

Creator

Eglal Doss-Quinby, Smith CollegeFollow
Joan Tasker Grimbert, Catholic University of America
Wendy Pfeffer, University of Louisville
Elizabeth Aubrey, University of Iowa

Files

Preview

Creation Date

2001

Publisher

Yale University Press

City

New Haven & London

Comments

Other formats

• Songs of the Women Trouvères [electronic resource]. Yale University Press (2008). JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1npsv4.

• Songs of the Women Trouvères [electronic resource]. Yale University Press (2013). ProQuest ebrary, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/smithcollege/ detail.action?docID=10167912.

Honors

• Nominated for National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association
• Nominated for Otto Gründler Prize, Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University

Reviews

• Romance Philology 59 (2005): 170–73, by Karen Fresco
• Speculum 78 (2003): 873–74, by Sylvia Huot
• French Review 76 (2002): 388–89, by Daniel O’Sullivan
• The Medieval Review 02.09.29 (2002), by Carol Symes
• Music Educators Journal 88.4 (2002): 70
• Encomia 22–23 (2000–2001): 16–18, by Don Monson

Document Type

Book

Description

This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouvères, in northern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Refuting the long-held notion that there are no extant Old French lyrics by women from this period, the editors of the volume present songs attributed to eight named female trouvères along with a varied selection of anonymous compositions in the feminine voice that may have been composed by women. The book includes the Old French texts of seventy-five compositions, extant music for eighteen monophonic songs and nineteen polyphonic motets, English translations, and a substantial introduction.