The sirventes or serventes (Old Occitan [siɾvenˈtes]), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the...
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these genres were highly fluid. A cross between a sirventes and a canso was a meg-sirventes (half-sirventes). A tenso could be "invented" by a single poet;...
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Paris. His most famous work, the sirventes contra Roma ("sirventes against Rome", actually entitled D'un sirventes far), was a strong reprimand for the...
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his vida speaks of "good sirventes" to reproach ladies for bad behaviour and sirventes attacking Bertran, only one sirventes by Peire survives: Quan lo...
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Reverdie Rondeau Rondel Rondelet Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet Trobar clus Trobar...
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sol sirventes l'an". The Hungarian scholar István Frank hypothesised that Bertran hailed from Parisot and re-classified his work as a sirventes. He has...
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Reverdie Rondeau Rondel Rondelet Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet Trobar clus Trobar...
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Amoros dau Luc was a troubadour who wrote a satirical sirventes, "En Chantarel, sirventes ab motz plas," which urged Henry III of England and his ally...
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to seize the Kingdom of Majorca, which he claimed. Guillem wrote his sirventes before actual fighting had begun. His company was active in the area around...
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Reverdie Rondeau Rondel Rondelet Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet Trobar clus Trobar...
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