For example, a sizable body of musical settings in the so-called genretroubadoursurvives from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries.From theCambridge English Corpus
First, regularity of strophic constructions and tight rhyme schemes are especially cultivated by the troubadours to impose structure on an unruly vernacular language.From theCambridge English Corpus
Instead, he interprets and uncovers it in a creative tradition of eight centuries, historicizing troubadours and trouveres continuously.From theCambridge English Corpus
Finally, with the troubadours, the musical aspect of the refrain is much less in evidence.From theCambridge English Corpus
The latter claim a special distinction as living descendants of the original troubadours; the former views himself as more remotely related to medieval music.From theCambridge English Corpus
This brief etymological sketch makes clear that 'troubadour' is more than a generic signifier.From theCambridge English Corpus
Indeed, musicians have always been travellers: from troubadours to today's rock stars, musicians travel the world.From theCambridge English Corpus
The troubadours, who have a prominent place both in traditional medieval music study and in popular culture, illustrate this well.From theCambridge English Corpus
The issue at hand is the detailed proof thattroubadourand trouvere repertories have always been objects of thought and scrutiny.From theCambridge English Corpus
The frequency of refrain words introubadoursong as compared to versus can in part be explained by certain aspects of versification.From theCambridge English Corpus
We do not have enough earlytroubadourmelodies, and none written down at the moment these troubadours flourished, to make full comparisons.From theCambridge English Corpus
The purpose of his article was, of course, to demonstrate that this new interpretation oftroubadourand trouvere melodies was wrong.From theCambridge English Corpus
One thing it is not is old music: ' it's the music of the time and of thetroubadour, true folk music'.From theCambridge English Corpus
Haines writes a chronologically ordered history of troubadours and trouveres while focusing on écriture, on the perception and writing down of music.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thetroubadourword refrain easily becomes a locus for experimentation.From theCambridge English Corpus
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