Trobar & Joglar

Alongside the art of trobar went the instrumental virtuosity of the jongleurs who were al instrumenalists. If this music was not written, and if a very small part of Medieval dance and instrumental music has come down to us, we know nevertheless, from numero texts, that the art of improvisation and rnamentation, and of the transformation of song into instrumental form or vice versa, was a guarantee of fine quality among the jonglet who were also instrumentalists. Mirroring the grant chant of the occitan courtly lyric, we propose to include, as a homage to the talent of these anonymous minstrels and jongleurs, instrumental dances and improvisations, based on melodic and modal material drawn from troubadour songs.