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    False identity can become so inherent to a person’s character, they can begin to forget where it stops and their true self begins. In Tobias Wolff’s novel Old School, the narrator and the literary review the Troubadour both are hiding behind a persona that is placed onto them by themselves or others. An aspirational vision of the characters is the basis of their personas. Wanting to be more then they already are, the characters end up believing in the lies told to persuade others of their importance

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    Dante, for example, referred in his De Vulgari Eloquenti to it and many troubadour poets. Simultaneously to the conventionalization of the troubadour love poetry, also the laws of love were organized and classified through the imitation of Ovid (Mott 5). It is from his Ars Amatoria that the idea of love as a virtue and art originally arose (Mott 55). Having its origins in the early troubadours, the concept of courtly love was then brought forth by Bernart de Ventadorn and Peire Rogier

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    Theologian Henri de Malines introduced secular music in the thirteenth- century. Secular music didn’t associated religion. 10. Troubadours/Trouvères Troubadours and Trouvères were introduced in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. After Henri de Malines delivered secular music, French nobles composed a high amount of secular music called troubadours and trouvères. A troubadours and Trouvères melody does not indicate a rhythm but does have a beat. 11. Jongleurs/ Jugglers Jongleurs/ Jugglers are entertainer

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    Medieval Music in England from 1066-1500s What significant developments or achievements from Medieval Music in England during the time of 1066-1500 CE has had an impact on today’s music and how? The Medieval Times had a lot of trading and invasions of new lands. Countries exchanged ideas to other countries, introducing new discoveries and inventions. During Medieval England, music was a current and changing development, with composers changing their music all the way to the growth and decisions of

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    The sources composed or directed by the women are probably the most profitable in giving understanding into how women thought and felt. As one may expect, most female created works get by from women of higher economic well-being, since women of lower status were very nearly never taught to peruse or compose. Religious ladies, case in point, may describe their dreams, counsel, or directions, especially for the enlighten Hildegard were among the most lucid and most scholarly of medieval ladies, utilizing

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    Power of Myth is all about love and marriage. Because love is such a broad topic, Moyers begins by asking for Campbell to tell us where he starts, which is the Troubadours. Campbell introduces them as the founders of modern love. Campbell also tells us about how ancient love was based around sexual desire, and this is how the Troubadours are different. They set the grounds for how we think of love today. Campbell then talks about the heart as being more than just than an organ. He says it represents

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    Courtly Love Thesis

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    he is teasing her. Towards, the end of the stanza, the guy finally convinces the girl that her looks don’t matter to him. “Cause girl you’re amazing, just the way you are!” This research project has given me an opportunity to explore how the Troubadours in the Middle Ages composed and what influenced them. The reason I chose to expand my research on Courtly Love because I was fascinated that it had nothing to do with marriage. In, fact many documents stated that it was impossible to experience

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    A troubadour was a poet that represented a knightly class of people. Accordingly, it is expected that a poem from a celebrated troubadour such as de Born will represent the zeitgeist – that is, the popular opinion of the times. One of de Born’s poems, titled “Be•m platz lo gais temps de pascor,” is mainly about the glories

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    performed, on rare occasions, for the common folk displaying the separation of social classes. Notably, women of noble birth were some of the greatest patrons of the arts during the Medieval Era. Eleanor of Aquitaine “brought her love of music and the troubadours to the English Court" when she became married to King Henry II. With the majority of the

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    Machaut Secular Music

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    style all shift as the audience is led through centuries of musical innovation and revolution. “Music Through the Ages” begins with A l'entrada del temps clar (When the Clear Days Come), an anonymous secular song written by early troubadours in the Middle Ages. Troubadours were poet musicians living in Southern France from the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, and spoke Occitan, a Romance language still spoken in parts of the region today. This light, driving

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