Chanson de toile

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The Chanson de toile (from French toile "canvas", also: Chanson d'histoire ) is a genre of the medieval French love song. The main female character of the songs is mostly engaged in sewing, embroidery or spinning. The assumption that songs of this kind were traditionally sung in textile work is controversial.

Chansons de toile tell simple love stories. Obstacles and their overcoming play a role. The stanza consists largely of an odd number (three or five) assonierender lines of ten syllables with a chorus to be completed. This refrain consists either of a line of verse without assonance or of two lines that assert one another independently.

The mostly anonymous transmission of this type of chanson is low, there are only about 20 documents from the 12th and 13th centuries. The origin of the genus is controversial. Some literary historians consider it a folk song that was artistically reshaped under the influence of courtly poetry. Others consider it to be a direct invention of courtly poetry, which deliberately took a popular, archaic direction.

Despite its few examples, the Chanson de toile also had an impact on later epochs. A well-known example from the late 19th century is the song Bele Erembors (also Bel Eremborc ), which the poet and Nobel Prize winner Paul Heyse translated into German as Schön Erenburg . The French composer and singer Émilie Simon released a piece on her first album (2003) called Chanson de toile .

literature

  • Edmond Faral: Les Chansons de toile . In: Romania 69 (1946)
  • Karl Bartsch: Old French romances and pastourels . Leipzig 1870
  • Gustav Gröber: The old French romances . Zurich 1872
  • Henri Poulaille and Régine Pernoud : Les chansons de toile . Paris 1946
  • Guido Saba: De 'Chansons de toile' or 'Chansons d'histoire' . Modena 1955
  • Michel Zink: Les chansons de toile . Paris 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E. Jane Burns: 3. Love's Stitches Undone . In: Courtly love undressed: reading through clothes in medieval French culture . U of Pennsylvania P, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8122-3671-2 , pp. 88-118.
  2. ↑ Edmond Faral: Les Chansons de toile . In: Romania 69 (1946), pp. 438, 455ff.
  3. ^ E. Jane Burns: Courtly love undressed: reading through clothes in medieval French culture . U of Pennsylvania P, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8122-3671-2 . , P. 93f.
  4. ^ "Chanson de toile" . Harvard Dictionary of Music. Harvard UP. 2003, p. 161.