troubadours

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troubadour

People sometimes refer to popular singers as troubadours, especially when the words of their songs are an important part of their music. a type of singer and poet who travelled around the palaces and castles of Southern Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries (trobador, from trobar , probably from tropus; TROPE). One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, that flourished from the 11th through the 13th century, chiefly in Provence and other regions of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy. They wrote in the langue d'oc of southern France (see Languedoc) and cultivated a lyric poetry intricate in metre and rhyme and usually of a romantic amatory strain reflecting the ideals of courtly love. Favoured at courts, troubadours had great freedom of speech and were charged with creating around the court ladies an aura of pleasant cultivation. Their poetry, often set to music, was to influence all later European lyrical poetry. See also trouvère

troubadour

They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain

troubadour

{i} medieval European poet and musician; wandering singer; wandering musician; wandering poet

troubadour

A Companion of the Order of the Troubadours, which is an East Kingdom award given to those who have displayed skill at vocal entertainment, and also for encouraging others to participate in the same

troubadour

A lyric poet who composed songs, often about courtly love; a strolling minstrel

troubadour

(O Prov trobar-"to find, invent or compose lyric verse") Vernacular poet of Occitania who flourished from c 1100-c 1300 and who wrote on secular themes, such as love

troubadour

Troubadours were poets and singers who used to travel around and perform to noble families in Italy and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

troubadour

One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, who flourished from the 11th through the 13th centuries in Southern France and neighboring areas of Italy and Spain, and who wrote of courtly love Sidelight: Female troubadours were called trobairitz (See Tenson) (See also Improvisatore, Jongleur, Meistersingers, Minnesingers, Minstrel, Scop Trouvere) (Compare Bard, Metrist, Sonneteer, Wordsmith)

troubadour

an itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel

troubadour

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy

troubadour

a singer of folk songs

troubadour

(Provencal "finder, inventor"): A medieval love poet of southern France between 1100-1350 who wrote and sang about the theme of fin amor (courtly love) Troubadours were noteworthy for their creativity and experimentation in metrical forms They wrote in langue d'oc, and they profoundly influenced Dante, Petrarch, and the development of the love lyric in Europe The term troubadour is sometimes used interchangeably with trouvère Cf trouvère, below

Etymology

[ 'trü-b&-"dOr, -"dor, ] (noun.) circa 1741. French, from Old Provençal trobador, from trobar to compose, probably from Vulgar Latin tropare, from Latin tropus trope.