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The harp was an instrument appropriate for the ‘noble amateur’ (Carol Lloyd Wood, The Chaucer Songbook). It largely appealed to the upper classes of the middle ages. Music provides solace for the tormented heart of the courtly lover. The protagonist of Gottfried van Strassberg’s Tristan (1210) is representative of a &lsquo
'If Music Be the Food of
The word ‘romance’ originated from the Old French romanz You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, which first appeared as the title for a narrative poem about chivalric heroes. The love songs of the Minnesinger tended to contain a religious element. This is mirrored by the influence of church modes on the melodies composed. The songs of the trouveres often borrowed melodies from courtly songs and set them to those in devotion to the Virgin Mary. There were also troubadours of a clerical background. For example the Monk of Montauda in Occitan.
To place the emergence of courtly love in context it was born out of an ‘age of piety’. This accounts for the musical similarities between chanson pieuses and chanson l’amour. The Virgin Mary, the apotheosis of feminine beauty was a model of piety and virtue to which all women should aspire. Therefore a parallel can be drawn between the unattainable earthly beloved and the Mary, the Holy Queen: the objects of the poets physical and spiritual exaltation. Both exist in a realm higher than the one the poet himself is in. The lady in question (domna) is unnamed, accentuating her elevated position.
France in the middle ages was divided by differences in culture and society. The top and bottom of the country were split between the langue d‘oc in the South and the langue d‘oil in the North. The South was characterised by a sophistication inherited from the Arab society of Moorish Spain and the influence of Roman civilisation. It was out of this culture of cultivation and nobility that the troubadours arose.
The notion that love is a science which needs to be examined and recorded is one of ancient origins. The first instruction on how a man may seduce a woman was noted by the great Roman poet, Ovid, in the first century B.C in his book Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love). However it was the troubadours, later joined by the trouveres, their Nouthern counterparts who established courtly love as a model for all lovers by capturing it in poetry and music.
Courtly love, therefore, was chiefly a pursuit of the aristocracy; it usurped the existing aristocratic literature, the epic chanson de geste and in its place implanted a tradition based on languishing and stylised romantic love (Andrea Hopkins You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, The Book of Courtly Love - Passionate Code of the Troubadours
Courtly love is a poetic vision of love, a romanticised portrait of carnal and earthly desire. The conventions and intricate codes of behaviour veiled the sensual subject matter of the poetry . Such lofty ideals relate to the chivalric love of Arthurian legend: embodied in the more sober music of the Minnesinger; a German school of knightly poet-musicians.
A Marriage of Heaven and Earth
The verb ’trobar’ literally translates as ’to find’. The troubadours were not only performers but discoverers and inventors of music. They were descended from a tradition of nomadic musicians: the Jongleurs or minestrells. The Jongleurs were general entertainers who earned their keep from travelling the country: singing, dancing and exhibiting their animals.
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