Troubadours Art Ensemble a été invité à participer à une série de rencontres avec des étudiants de l’Université de Stanford autour de l’art du trobar. Les musiciens y donneront également un concert le jeudi 4 mars à 18h30 au Memorial Church.
Au programme
Ar’resplan la flors enversa – Raimbaut d’Aurenga
Ar’ab la forsa del freis – Raimo de Miraval
A chantar m’er de so au’en non volria – La Comtessa de Dia
La serena – Anonyme Séfarade
Per dam – Peirol
Lanquan li jorn son lonc en mai – Jaufre Rudel
Ben aja’l cortes esciens – Raimon de Miraval
Principio di vertu – Instrumental
Como la rosa – Anonyme Séfarade
Tuchia Mazmoume – Instrumental
Wuan vei la lauzeta mover – Bernart de Ventadorn
Alli en el midbar – Anonyme Séfarade
Cantiga – Instrumental
Reis glorios verais lums e clartatz – Giraut de Bornelh
Scalerica – Anonyme Séfarade
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- Poster Troubadours Art Ensemble à Stanford Universty
Performing Trobar
A dominating element of troubadour lyric, an art form of an essentially musical nature, is performance: the poet-lover, as a ‘finder’ of a song (trobar=to find, to invent), had to prove him or herself worthy as a lover not only as a composer of an original song, but as a performer of that song before a live audience.
The visit of the Troubadours Art Ensemble from March 2-5, 2010, an ensemble composed of internationally recognized musicians directed by Gérard Zuchetto, translator, author, and singer of trobar, will give the Stanford community the opportunity to engage in the art of the troubadours as live performance. Through colloquia, seminars, and events centered around the ensemble, and involving student, faculty and the surrounding public, their visit will expose the community to the rich aural and verbal texture of the medieval world, contribute to scholars’ discussions on literary versus musical interpretations of premodern texts, and finally spark student interest in medieval culture. In the classroom, this culture can seem both fantastic and impenetrable. Specifically in the case of troubadour lyric as « poetry, » our practice is often to study words separate from music, and poetic expression separate from the individual voice and its reception by an audience. Rather, the Troubadours Art Ensemble will provide a vital experience of medieval culture as an event: the fusion of music and song, and of performer-poet-composer and audience.
Their performance at Memorial Church and interaction with students in a class on medieval lyric poetry will be incorporated into a website, « Performing Trobar, » to which students will upload final projects of their own performances of lyric and comment upon them. This visit of the Ensemble and cultivation of the performance element as part of the classroom experience aims to give students an opportunity to embody the lyrical « I » as well as critically reflect upon the lyrical voice.
The visit of the Troubadours Art Ensemble and curriculum development project is co-sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts; Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages; Department of French and Italian; Department of Music; Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies; The Stanford Humanities Center; France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies; Trob’Art Productions; Lo Cirdoc; Bureau Export French-Music; Région Languedoc-Roussillon.
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