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    This document discusses medieval musical instruments and singers across Europe. It outlines string instruments like lutes, harps, and viols. It also describes woodwind instruments such as recorders, flutes, bagpipes, and shawms. Brass instruments like trumpets are mentioned as well as percussion. The document then focuses on troubadours and trouvères, singer-songwriters from France and Italy in the Middle Ages. It provides examples of songs from notable troubadours and trouvères from the 12th-13th centuries.

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    This document discusses medieval musical instruments and singers across Europe. It outlines string instruments like lutes, harps, and viols. It also describes woodwind instruments such as recorders, flutes, bagpipes, and shawms. Brass instruments like trumpets are mentioned as well as percussion. The document then focuses on troubadours and trouvères, singer-songwriters from France and Italy in the Middle Ages. It provides examples of songs from notable troubadours and trouvères from the 12th-13th centuries.

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    Instruments and Nomadic Singers

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    Mason Walker
    This document discusses medieval musical instruments and singers across Europe. It outlines string instruments like lutes, harps, and viols. It also describes woodwind instruments such as recorders, flutes, bagpipes, and shawms. Brass instruments like trumpets are mentioned as well as percussion. The document then focuses on troubadours and trouvères, singer-songwriters from France and Italy in the Middle Ages. It provides examples of songs from notable troubadours and trouvères from the 12th-13th centuries.

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    Medieval Instruments and Nomadic Singers

    Strings

    Lute Harp Vielle Psaltery


    The Hurdy-Gurdy
    Woodwinds

    Recorder Flute Bagpipe & Shawm


    The Shawm (and riq)
    Brass and Percussion

    Trumpet

    Drums/Percussion
    Trouvère

    Troubadour
    (f.) Trobairitz
    Fin’amors (Courtly/Refined Love)
    • Chivalry
    • A knight and a married woman
    • Devotion to Mary
    • “…a love at once illicit and morally
    elevating, passionate and disciplined,
    humiliating and exalting, human and
    transcendent.” (Newman, 1968)
    Can vei la lauzeta mover (Bernardt de Ventadorn,
    12th century troubadour)
    A chantar (Beatriz de Dia, 12th century
    trobairitz)
    Robins m’aime (Adam de la Halle, 13th century
    trouvère)
    • A trouvère song
    • The story of Robin Hood and Maid
    Marion

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