Songs of the Women Trouveres

by Wendy Pfeffer (Editor), Eglal Doss-Quinby (Editor), Joan Tasker Grimbert (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2001

  $46.87

  This groundbreaking anthology brings together for the first time the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, 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 trouveres 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.