Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concert

In the lyrical songs of Gace Brulé, one of the first French trouvères (probably born c. 1159 and died after 1213), a performance art orientation is obvious: his songs in many cases allow us to recreate the conditions of their performance; it follows from them that the poet addressed not only the lad...

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Main Author: Ludmilla Evdokimova
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Published: St. Tikhon's University 2024-12-01
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description In the lyrical songs of Gace Brulé, one of the first French trouvères (probably born c. 1159 and died after 1213), a performance art orientation is obvious: his songs in many cases allow us to recreate the conditions of their performance; it follows from them that the poet addressed not only the lady, but also a gathering of listeners, among whom were his patrons and other poets, and Gace more than once emphasized his rivalry with his brothers, challenging them to competition; such songs account for more than two-thirds of those attributed to him in H. Petersen Dyggve's edition. The theatrical expressiveness of Gace's poetry is due to the fact that in his collection of poems, as well as in other's poets of the late 12th and even later times, the lyrical song and jeu-parti, formed, like the Provençal tenson, by the dialogue of interlocutors, are not completely differentiated: his collection poems includes only one jeu-parti, consisting entirely of dialogue — perhaps the earliest example of this genre in the poetry of the trouvères — while elements of argument with other poets are integrated into the songs. A comparison of Gace's songs with the songs of his contemporaries and younger contemporaries (Blondel de Nesle, Châtelain de Coucy, Thibaut de Champagne, Richard de Fournival) shows that his orientation towards performance art is much more pronounced than that of other trouvères of his time. Gace is superior in this regard to those troubadours whose songs also contain appeals to patrons or other poets presumably present among the listeners — like Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine' songs to «friends» (n 1-3) or some of Bernard de Ventadorn' songs addressed to «seigneur» (gentlemen); however, such songs constitute a significantly smaller part of their heritage compared to Gace. The theatrical expressiveness of Gace’s songs is created, in addition to numerous addresses to listeners or other poets, by the dialogues of imaginary interlocutors included in them. We can conclude that the characteristic features of Gace’s poems correlate not only with the history of small genres — jeux-partis and songs, the contours of which had not yet developed in the poetry of the trouvères of his time, but also with the peculiarity of his talent.
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spelling doaj-art-2732c1eaf69249ce8e1c785867845dc32024-12-21T13:13:32ZrusSt. Tikhon's UniversityVestnik Pravoslavnogo Svâto-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta: Seriâ III. Filologiâ1991-64852409-48972024-12-017979933http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturIII202479.9-336Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concertLudmilla Evdokimova0A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences; 25A Povarskaia Str., Moscow 121069, Russian Federation; St. Tikhon’s University for the Humanities; 6/1 Likhov Pereulok, Moscow 127051, Russian FederationIn the lyrical songs of Gace Brulé, one of the first French trouvères (probably born c. 1159 and died after 1213), a performance art orientation is obvious: his songs in many cases allow us to recreate the conditions of their performance; it follows from them that the poet addressed not only the lady, but also a gathering of listeners, among whom were his patrons and other poets, and Gace more than once emphasized his rivalry with his brothers, challenging them to competition; such songs account for more than two-thirds of those attributed to him in H. Petersen Dyggve's edition. The theatrical expressiveness of Gace's poetry is due to the fact that in his collection of poems, as well as in other's poets of the late 12th and even later times, the lyrical song and jeu-parti, formed, like the Provençal tenson, by the dialogue of interlocutors, are not completely differentiated: his collection poems includes only one jeu-parti, consisting entirely of dialogue — perhaps the earliest example of this genre in the poetry of the trouvères — while elements of argument with other poets are integrated into the songs. A comparison of Gace's songs with the songs of his contemporaries and younger contemporaries (Blondel de Nesle, Châtelain de Coucy, Thibaut de Champagne, Richard de Fournival) shows that his orientation towards performance art is much more pronounced than that of other trouvères of his time. Gace is superior in this regard to those troubadours whose songs also contain appeals to patrons or other poets presumably present among the listeners — like Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine' songs to «friends» (n 1-3) or some of Bernard de Ventadorn' songs addressed to «seigneur» (gentlemen); however, such songs constitute a significantly smaller part of their heritage compared to Gace. The theatrical expressiveness of Gace’s songs is created, in addition to numerous addresses to listeners or other poets, by the dialogues of imaginary interlocutors included in them. We can conclude that the characteristic features of Gace’s poems correlate not only with the history of small genres — jeux-partis and songs, the contours of which had not yet developed in the poetry of the trouvères of his time, but also with the peculiarity of his talent.https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/8427gace brulé trouvères of the late 12th—first half of the 13th century lyrical song jeu-parti appeals to listeners other poets patrons circumstances of the song performance rivalry with poets in the art of singing singing as performance art the theatrical expressiveness of gace's poetry.гас брюле труверы кон. xii – перв. пол. xiii в. лирическая песнь же-парти обращения к слушателям другим поэтам покровителям обстоятельства исполнения песен соперничество с поэтами в искусстве пения пение как искусство перформанса театральная экспрессивность поэзии гаса.
spellingShingle Ludmilla Evdokimova
Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concert
Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Svâto-Tihonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta: Seriâ III. Filologiâ
gace brulé
trouvères of the late 12th—first half of the 13th century
lyrical song
jeu-parti
appeals to listeners
other poets
patrons
circumstances of the song performance
rivalry with poets in the art of singing
singing as performance art
the theatrical expressiveness of gace's poetry.
гас брюле
труверы кон. xii – перв. пол. xiii в.
лирическая песнь
же-парти
обращения к слушателям
другим поэтам
покровителям
обстоятельства исполнения песен
соперничество с поэтами в искусстве пения
пение как искусство перформанса
театральная экспрессивность поэзии гаса.
title Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concert
title_full Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concert
title_fullStr Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concert
title_full_unstemmed Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concert
title_short Gace Brulé and his rivals in the art of singing and love: performing a song at a concert
title_sort gace brule and his rivals in the art of singing and love performing a song at a concert
topic gace brulé
trouvères of the late 12th—first half of the 13th century
lyrical song
jeu-parti
appeals to listeners
other poets
patrons
circumstances of the song performance
rivalry with poets in the art of singing
singing as performance art
the theatrical expressiveness of gace's poetry.
гас брюле
труверы кон. xii – перв. пол. xiii в.
лирическая песнь
же-парти
обращения к слушателям
другим поэтам
покровителям
обстоятельства исполнения песен
соперничество с поэтами в искусстве пения
пение как искусство перформанса
театральная экспрессивность поэзии гаса.
url https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/8427
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