Bernart de ventadorn wikipedia
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Can vei la lauzeta mover
12th-century song written by Bernart de Ventadorn
Can vei la lauzeta mover (PC )[1] is a song written in the Occitan language by Bernart de Ventadorn, a 12th-century troubadour. It is among both the oldest[2] and best known[3] of the troubadour songs. Both the lyrics and the melody of the song survive, in variants from three different manuscripts.[2]
It is one of the first poems "to dramatise the effect of someone actually speaking in the present", in part by its formulation as a first-person narrative. Its lyrics are arranged in seven stanzas of eight lines, ending in a four-line coda. The first two verses speak of a lark (the "lauzeta" of the title) flying with joy into the sun, forgetting itself, and falling, with the speaker wishing he could be so joyful, but unable because of his unrequited love for a woman.[3] In subsequent verses, the subject compares himself to Narcissus and Tristan, and promis
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List of medieval composers
Composers in the mittpunkt ages
Medieval music generally refers the music of Western Europe during the mittpunkt Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. The first and longest major era of Western classical music, medieval music includes composers of a variety of styles, often centered around a particular nationality or composition school. The lives of most medieval composers are generally little known, and some are so obscure that the only information available is what can be inferred from the contents and circumstances of their surviving music.[n 1]
Composers of the Early Middle Ages (–) almost exclusively concerned themselves with sacred music, writing in forms such as antiphons, hymns, masses, offices, sequences and tropes. Most composers were anonymous and the few whose names are known were monks or clergy. Of the known composers, the most significant are those from the Abbey of Saint Gall school, particularly Notker the Stammerer
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Bernart de Ventadorn
French troubadour (c. –40 – c –)
Bernart de Ventadorn (also Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn; c.&#;– – c.&#;–) was an Occitan poet-composer troubadour of the classical age of troubadour poetry. Generally regarded as the most important troubadour in both poetry and music, his 18 extant melodies of 45 known poems in total is the most to survive from any 12th-century troubadour. He is remembered for his mastery as well as popularization of the trobar leu style, and for his prolific cançons, which helped define the genre and establish the "classical" form of courtly love poetry, to be imitated and reproduced throughout the remaining century and a half of troubadour activity.
Now thought of as "the Master Singer," he developed the cançons into a more formalized style which allowed for sudden turns. Bernart was known for being able to portray his women as divine agents in one moment and then, in a sudden twist, as Eve – the cause of man'