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Article: Mary O'Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire.(Book review)
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- September 22, 2007
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Mary O'Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvere Repertoire, Oxford Monographs in Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). xv + 226 pp.; 15 plates. ISBN 0-19-816547-1. 55.00 [pounds sterling].
There are now several introductions and handbooks introducing students to the poetry and music of the troubadours, but comparable volumes dealing with the trouveres are not to be found. In part the greater extent of trouvere verse and song makes the undertaking a more daunting one. Mary O'Neill's book is not a comprehensive introduction to or account of the trouveres and their work; but by focusing on their central and most ...