Trouvere vs. Troubadour — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Trouvere and Troubadour
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Trouvere
One of a class of poet-musicians flourishing in northern France in the 1100s and 1200s, who composed chiefly narrative works, such as the chansons de geste, in langue d'oïl.
Troubadour
A troubadour (English: , French: [tʁubaduʁ] (listen); Occitan: trobador [tɾuβaˈðu] (listen)) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word troubadour is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz.
Trouvere
One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.
Troubadour
A French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.
Troubadour
One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d'oc often about courtly love.
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Troubadour
A strolling minstrel.
Troubadour
An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
Troubadour
One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Troubadour
A singer of folk songs
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