minstrel: Troubadour and Trouvere songs in English

[Holly]

Greetings from Linette de Gallardon!

At 07:43 PM 3/23/02 -0600, Monika wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I was finally catching up on reading my Spring 2002 of Early Music America
>and saw an article on Fletcher Collins. It lists a publication of his on
>"Troubadour and Trouvere Songs in singable English" as well as  a CD call
>"Troubadours a Courtin'".  Both from Crown Light Editions, Staunton
>Virginia - 2001.
>
>Out of curiousity, has anyone seen or heard these and what did they think?

I have not seen these, and now that I know about them, I WANT THEM!!!  I 
have searched fairly extensively for the last 1/2 hour on the Web; not much 
luck.  I found a mention of the book at Schola Antiqua's site, but no more 
info.  Crown Publishers has nothing on it.  OCLC doesn't list it.  Abebooks 
and Alibris don't have it.  Aaaaaaagh!

Maybe it's the same situation I found with another book I looked for quite 
a while - an article was written about the author and discussed the 
"spring" publication of her book - which actually didn't come out until a 
year and half later.  The article is definite that it was already published?

There is a 1982? book called Medieval Songs, or something like that, by the 
same gentleman.  Very nice book.  Highly recommended.

>It sounds like it could be very useful for the SCA musicians wanting to sing
>for an English speaking audience.  One comment in the interview was ..."in
>our recent CD of troubadour and trouvere songs, "Troubadours a Courtin'",
>the singers perform in English because we find that while something is
>inevitably lost in any translation, more is lost - perhaps the whole song -
>when an English-speaking audience is confronted with Old Occitan and Old
>French"  (Fletcher Collins - Early Music America, Spring 2002, p.52)

Aaaah!  Aaaaah!   Pardon my excitement, but this is so much my 
philosophy!  I feel so vindicated!  Whee!

I wonder if Borders has Early Music America in its periodicals section, so 
I can at least read the article?


>I also see that Collins is a former teacher of Custard LaRue of Baltimore
>Consort.

Well, that explains a lot.  I *really* must find these publications.  If 
anyone gets more info, please be sure to post it.

Linette