- Edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg
- Music edited by Hans Tischler
- Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981
- Indiana U.P. hardcover: ISBN 0-253-14942-8
- xlvii + 560 pages
- London: Faber and Faber, 1981
- Faber and Faber hardcover: ISBN 0-571-10042-2
- xlvii + 560 pages
- Image: Jacket of the Faber and Faber printing
The trouvères were singer-songwriters of northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries. This volume is both an anthology and a critical edition of 217 Old French lyrics (and the melodies for 151 of those songs). The collection was developed through the painstaking examination of early manuscripts, microfilms, photostats, and diplomatic editions, along with the important task of selecting representative works from a corpus of about 2,000 surviving lyrics.
From the Introduction
“Well over two thousand lyrics for single voice have survived from the rich production of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century trouvères of Northern France, preserved in more than thirty chansonniers and a variety of other manuscripts. Almost half of the texts are unique, while the rest occur in as many as a dozen or more redactions; although all these poems were meant to be sung, music survives for only about half of them. . . .
“The present volume has . . . three principal features. The collection [of 217 works] attempts to be representative of almost all types of Old French monophonic song from its beginning around 1150 to the end of the thirteenth century. It offers texts newly edited from the surviving manuscripts, established according to a consistent critical practice. And it includes music with all texts for which music has been preserved.”
“Voilà un magnifique exemple de travail, de patience et d’érudition, à la gloire de ceux qui l’ont entrepris comme des poètes ainsi redécouverts.”
Brigitte Cazells (Stanford University) in Romance Philology 41.3 (Feb. 1988), 363-364
Contents
- Introduction
- Bibliography
- ANONYMOUS SONGS
- Ballettes
- Chansons de toile
- Aubes
- Reverdies
- Estampies
- Pastourelles
- Chansons de rencontre
- Chansons
- Chansons de croisade
- Sottes chansons
- Chansons satiriques
- Chansons pieuses
- Rondeaux
- Varia
- ASCRIBED SONGS
- Chrétien de Troyes
- Blondel de Nesle
- Conon de Béthune
- Richard Coeur de Lion
- Châtelain de CoucI
- Gace Brulé
- Jehan Bodel
- Audefroi le Bâtard
- Richart de Semilli
- Gautier de Dargies
- Thibaut de Blaison
- Gontier de Soignies
- Guiot de Dijon
- Moniot d’Arras
- Andrieu Contredit d’Arras
- Guillaume de Vinier
- Simon d’Authie
- Hue de la Ferté
- Thibaut de Champagne
- Richart de Fournival
- Raoul de Soissons
- Étienne de Meaux
- Jacques d’Autun
- Jacques de Dosti
- Mahieu le Juif
- Henri III, duc de Brabant
- Perrin d’Angicourt
- Raoul de Beauvais
- Jean Erart
- Gillebert de Berneville
- Colin Muset
- Jehan Bretel
- Adam de la Halle
- Thibaut II, compte de Bar
- Duchesse de Lorraine
- Gamart de Vilers et Jehan le Cuvelier
- Sainte des Prés et Dame de la Chaussée
- Jacques de Cysoing
- Moniot de Paris
- Guillaume d’Amiens
- Jacquemin de la Vente
- Aubertin d’Airaines
- Philippe de Remi
- Jacques de Cambrai
- Guillaume de Béthune
- Rutebeuf
- APPENDIX: THE TROUVÈRES
- INDEX OF NAMES
- GLOSSARY
See the expanded French edition (1995)
Samuel N. Rosenberg, Hans Tischler, and Marie-Geneviève Grossel, Chansons des trouvères