La Tròba, l'invention lyrique occitane des troubadours XIIe - XIIIe siècles - Gérard Zuchetto

La Tròba, Occitan lyrical invention of the troubadours XIIe - XIIIe centuries - Gérard Zuchetto

Anthology commented about Trobar

Gérard Zuchetto, specialist of the troubadours and author of numerous CDs and books on the subject, takes us on a timeless journey through the crucible of the first modern poetry of Europe from Guilhem de Poitiers to Dante Alighieri.

110 troubadours, more than 300 songs in Occitan with the translations in French. A presentation of the poetic, historical and geographical world of troubadours and Occitan lyrics, accompanied by a lexicon of the Trobar and personal reflections of the author on the re-creation and musical interpretation of the troubadours today.

Editions Tròba Vox.

The author:

Gérard Zuchetto, author and musician, conducts the Troubadours Art Ensemble with which he recorded and edited all the songs of noted troubadours, texts and melodies, in medieval manuscripts. These specialists of the troubadours, makes them speak in this unique collection of its kind: Camins de Trobar and the Tròba.

He is passionate about the lyrical art of the troubadours, of which he has become a specialist. Since 1981, he sings the troubadours of the twelfth-thirteenth centuries which he studies in medieval manuscripts.
Author and composer, he draws from the sources of the trobar the originality of his own musical creations. A Trob'Art concept that projects the song of the Occitan poetry of yesterday and today's in a very personal artistic universe mixing contemporary musical writing, old instruments, dance and current sounds ... from rebec monoxyle to structures Sound and Cristal Baschet.