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  Troubadors repertoire
the Troubadors performed Bach 150 for the first time in America as Bach would have heard it: with period instruments and boys' voices (soprano as well as alto) at Baroque pitch.
The boys are trained what it means to sing stylistically, even if, or especially when, the styles differ drastically.
Being able to properly interpret a piece of music is a cornerstone of the Troubadors' ability.
www.troubadors.org /repertoire.html   (281 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Music of France
Trouvère is the Northern French (langue doïl) version of troubador (langue doc), and refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadors but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France.
Inspired by the Code of Chivalry, troubadors composed and performed vernacular songs (in contrast to the older tradition, dating back to the 10th century, of goliards.
Contemporaneous with the troubadors was the rise of the trouvères, another itinerant class of musicians, who used the langue d'oil, while the troubadors used langue d'oc.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-France   (10603 words)

  
 Learn more about Songwriter in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
It is often speculated that pre-historic man must have made up and sung songs.
More recently, the troubadors of the middle ages sang their own work, as did the German Minnesingers.
Most art song writing is written for somebody other than the composer to perform, although it is known that Schubert often sang his own songs at private parties, and there have been a number of composers who were also singers and wrote for themselves, Carl Loewe being one example.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/so/songwriter.html   (291 words)

  
 The Troubadors
The TrouBaDors a new duo from West Yorkshire are putting the finishing touches to their first CD release due out in Nov 2005 On their own Riprizal Productions label.
Among the five tracks is a true story of a pair of cowboy boots from Nashville that somehow found themselves in deepest darkest Wakefield!
Owned now by Steve from the Troubadors it tells the tale of two now deceased former owners!
www.troubadors.co.uk   (208 words)

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