0 a male poet and singer who travelled around southern France and northern Italy between the 11th and 13th centuries entertaining rich people
For example, a sizable body of musical settings in the so-called genre troubadour survives from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries.
First, regularity of strophic constructions and tight rhyme schemes are especially cultivated by the troubadours to impose structure on an unruly vernacular language.
Instead, he interprets and uncovers it in a creative tradition of eight centuries, historicizing troubadours and trouveres continuously.
Finally, with the troubadours, the musical aspect of the refrain is much less in evidence.
The latter claim a special distinction as living descendants of the original troubadours; the former views himself as more remotely related to medieval music.
This brief etymological sketch makes clear that ' troubadour' is more than a generic signifier.
Indeed, musicians have always been travellers: from troubadours to today's rock stars, musicians travel the world.
The troubadours, who have a prominent place both in traditional medieval music study and in popular culture, illustrate this well.
