"The trobairitz repertoire is unique in being the largest body
of women's lyric poetry to have been composed in the medieval period.
Women
are often portrayed very rigidly in the traditional (male-authored)
courtly love literature: a lady is virtuous, demanding, and
unattainable — and usually complained about either for withholding her
affection or for granting it. These women are more like the figures in
stained-glass windows than real people.
In this program I want to
show the women behind the stained-glass windows. Women who interacted
with the trobadours in many ways, loving them, writing with them,
singing with them, writing about them… A world not so different from
the world today with an urge of setting the big questions of love,
fate, religion and wisdom into words and music.
Only
one song
survives with music, Comtessa de Dies “A Chantar”. For the rest
of the poems I have chosen to not use contrafacta, but invent new
melodies
from the vast musical material of the male trobadours. That gives the a
possibility to become very intimate with the texts and
also learn and invent a new/old musical tradition of the
trobairitz.Listen on Ia de chantar by na Castelloza on Youtube
| - Upcoming performances 2011
- Tønsberg September 15
- Vilnius October 2
- Rovaniemi October 8
La domna ditz - chançons de Trobairitz
Programme Ar em al freg temps vengut Azalais de Porcairagues A chantar Estat ai greu cossirier Ab ioi et ab joven Fin ioi me don'alegransa Comtessa de Die Na Carenza al bel cor Yselda e na Carenza Quan vei los pratz verdesir Anonym Ia de chantar Mout avetz faich Na Castelloza Na Maria, e prestz e fina valor Bieritz de Roman
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