Chastelain de Couci

A French trouvere who’s attributed with several songs. Chances are which the Chastelain belonged to a formidable family members, so much in order that he was regarded as the hero of a specific French tale (“Roman du Chastelain de Courci et de la Dame de Fayel”). The Chastelain was connected with poets who offered through the third and 4th crusade and chasons related to him from this period had been utilized by others in afterwards music. The conventions utilized by the Chastelain had been common-place apart from a reflective pathos and suavity. Meters had been balanced and generally created in the framework of ten syllables per series.