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Sirvente
Sirvente Sir`vente", n. [F. sirvente, fr. Pr. sirventes,
sirventesc, originally, the poem of, or concerning, a
sirvent, fr. sirvent, properly, serving, n., one who serves
(e. g., as a soldier), fr. servir to serve, L. servire.]
A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to
moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often
used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.
Meaning of Sirvente from wikipedia
- The
sirventes or
serventes (Old Occitan: [
siɾvenˈtes]),
sometimes translated as "service song", was a
genre of Old
Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the...
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these genres were
highly fluid. A
cross between a
sirventes and a
canso was a meg-
sirventes (half-
sirventes). A
tenso could be "invented" by a
single poet;...
- Guimarães D, Lima P,
Bueno CR,
Vasconcelos A, Roman-Campos D,
Menezes CA,
Sirvente RA,
Salemi VM, Mady C,
Caron MG,
Ferreira AJ, Brum PC,
Resende RR, Cruz...
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writing and music, and two
poems are
attributed to him. The
first one is a
sirventes in Old French,
Dalfin je us
voill desrenier, and the
second one is a lament...
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other three being sirventes),
constituting a
debate with
Raimon de
Durfort (also from Quercy), and
Arnaut Daniel. All
three sirventes were
written in monorhyming...
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Vidal de
Castelnou d'Ari wins the
violeta d'or (golden violet) for a
sirventes in
praise of the
Virgin Mary. At
about this date,
Raimon de
Cornet writes...
- sol
sirventes l'an". The
Hungarian scholar István
Frank hypothesised that
Bertran hailed from
Parisot and re-classified his work as a
sirventes. He has...
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Amoros dau Luc was a
troubadour who
wrote a
satirical sirventes, "En Chantarel,
sirventes ab motz plas,"
which urged Henry III of
England and his ally...
- his vida
speaks of "good
sirventes" to
reproach ladies for bad
behaviour and
sirventes attacking Bertran, only one
sirventes by
Peire survives: Quan lo...
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minor troubadour notable mainly for
initiating a
cycle of five
short sirventes in the
summer of 1285.
According to a
rubric of the
chansonnier in which...
