71.103.236.236 at 03:21, 14 June 2007

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The ''canso'' is the most important genre of troubadour lyric: it leads to the Northern French ''chanson,''and it deserves a fairly large article. This is a genre of love poetry that gave rise to the northern French medieval chanson, that inspired Dante in his work to develop a vernacular literature, and that ... well, that recorded a rise in the status of women in medieval Occitania.

Many features identify the ''canso'' besides its "having a beginning, a middle, and an end." The most basic feature distinguishing the ''canso'' from ''sirventes'' or ''planh'' or other genres: the ''canso'' lyrics usually speak of love, praising the beloved.

The sentence "The canso can end with either a tornada or envoi" seems misleading -- I suggest omitting the word "either". Otherwise, I am wondering what distinction you make between a ''tornada'' and an ''envoi.'' As I understand it, the term ''envoi'' to refer to a section of a poem (the last part, the "postage stamp and address" part) is (Northern) French , but there's no real difference between a ''tornada'' and an ''envoi.'' The troubadours often used forms of the equivalent verb (Fr. ''envoyer'') in the ''tornadas '' (which were not full-length stanzas, but half-stanzas with slightly different rules for rhyming with the rest of the poem).

Because it describes the ''canso'' in a way that also describes nearly every genre of poetry and prose (anything that starts with an exordium and ends with a conclusion), I would classify this article as a stub.

I'm afraid I know less about wikis than about troubadours. Perhaps this and related articles, here and in Wikipedia, are asking me to provide a bit more information and better references.

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71.103.236.236 at 03:21, 14 June 2007