This paper is conceived as the first chapter of a thorough interdisciplinary investigation on the Occitan dansa, the French virelai and other related Romance lyrical genres. By combining philological and musicological approaches, we discuss the definition of the dansa-form based on medieval sources and the delimitation of its corpus, both in Occitan and Catalan milieu. Moreover, we aim to retrace the history of the troubadours’ dansa from its outset to 1400 and back to its possible origin. Concerning this particular aspect, we focus on the alleged derivation of the dansa from the popular poetry of pièces à refrain and/or of “zadjal-type” poems. An in-depth analysis of the dansa’s characteristic features and its comparison with the sacred repertoire of Latin hymns and conductus lead us to a different conclusion: the roots of the dansa-form are to be found in the courtly troubadours’ canso, through an interference with the liturgical and paraliturgical production of the responsoria.

« Dansa es us dictatz gracios ». La dansa occitane du XIIe au XIVe siècle

Saviotti F.
2022-01-01

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This paper is conceived as the first chapter of a thorough interdisciplinary investigation on the Occitan dansa, the French virelai and other related Romance lyrical genres. By combining philological and musicological approaches, we discuss the definition of the dansa-form based on medieval sources and the delimitation of its corpus, both in Occitan and Catalan milieu. Moreover, we aim to retrace the history of the troubadours’ dansa from its outset to 1400 and back to its possible origin. Concerning this particular aspect, we focus on the alleged derivation of the dansa from the popular poetry of pièces à refrain and/or of “zadjal-type” poems. An in-depth analysis of the dansa’s characteristic features and its comparison with the sacred repertoire of Latin hymns and conductus lead us to a different conclusion: the roots of the dansa-form are to be found in the courtly troubadours’ canso, through an interference with the liturgical and paraliturgical production of the responsoria.
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