Descort

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Descort (from Latin discordia , discord) is a genre of Romanesque song poetry in the Middle Ages. It was probably first used by the Trouvères in northern France and then taken over by the Trobadors in southern France . In terms of content, it is related to the courtly love canzone, its specialty is that it reflects the inner turmoil of the lover through a 'discordant' form. This is achieved through irregular or constantly changing verse lengths and stanzas , or also, in a special form established by the Provencal trobador Raimbaut de Vaqueiras in Italy, by changing the language from stanza to stanza.

literature

  • A. Jeanroy, L. Brandin, P. Aubry, Lai et descorts français du XIIIe siècle, texte et musique , Paris 1901 (= Mélanges de musicologie critique , 3)
  • J. Maillard, Problèmes musicaux et littéraires du descort , in: Mélanges de linguistique et de littérature romanes à la mémoire d'Istvan Frank , Saarbrücken 1957, pp. 388-409
  • E. Köhler, Deliberations on a Theory of the Genre of the Old Provençal Descort , in: Italian Roots and Branches: Essays in Honor of Th. G. Bergin , New Haven / London 1976, pp.1-13