#4199. Structure and Process in the Old French jeu-parti

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Abstract:
Previous analytical studies of trouvere song have tended to focus on the structural aspects of the songs. ittle room for a consideration of text-music relationships beyond the first stanza of a song. This article proposes that the analytical constructs of structure and process may be used to reach a wider range of analytical readings. The study focuses on the Old French corpus of jeux-partis, sung debates composed by the trouveres (poet-singers) in northern France in the thirteenth century. When a poet-singer composed the first stanza of a jeu-parti, they negotiated the stylistic conventions of the genre. The first part of the article establishes what the stylistic conventions of the jeu-parti are. After the first stanza of a jeu-parti was composed, the two opposing trouvores negotiated the melodic and poetic structure that was established in the first stanza by exploiting the structures latent in the jeu-parti melody, creating interlocking structures of music and text that change from one stanza to the next. The second part of the article analyses one jeu-parti in detail to demonstrate how this was done.
Keywords:
Trouvere songs; analytical constructs; jeu-partis; stylistic features; Old French songs

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