Trobár Talks

Oct 14 2024 17 ep. 57 mins 21
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The members of medieval music ensemble Trobár talk all things medieval.

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Charlotte Cooper-Davis on Christine de Pizan!

Oct 14 2024 69 mins  
In anticipation of our Oct 25-26 shows A Room of Her Own: Christine’s Defense of Women (tickets available here), Allison and Elena speak about our favorite groundbreaking medieval writer with scholar Charlotte Cooper-Davis. Find links to both her introductory book, Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy, and her scholarly tome, Christine de Pizan, Empowering Women in Text and Ima

Pilot Episode Re-Release! Christine and The Book of the City of Ladies

Oct 06 2024 73 mins  
We are re-releasing our first ever podcast conversation in time for the return of one of our favorite programs, A Room of Her Own: Christine de Pizan's Defense of Women (coming to Cleveland October 25-26!). Founding members Allison Monroe, Elena Mullins, and Karin Weston discuss Pizan's bold and ambitious defense of women in her masterpiece, The Book of the City of Ladies. We also

Presenting Love's Dominion!

Dec 15 2022 50 mins  
In this episode Allison and Elena are joined by guest artists Sian Ricketts and Allen Otte, providing you a behind the scenes glance at our upcoming live concerts! We even preview two of our favorite selections from the program. Learn more about the two shows here, happening this Sep. 17 & 18 in Cleveland Heights and Cleveland's Clark Fulton neighborhood.And learn more about th

Ye Olde Yuletide Special

Dec 15 2022 56 mins  
In this episode the trio explores Christmas traditions in medieval England, including feasting, decorating, knife throwing, caroling, and extra-special holiday treats (dried fruit and nuts disguised as entrails, anyone?)*****************************Watch this space for performances by yours truly of seasonal music, including one of the carols discussed in the episode.**************

Trobár Reads: The Story of an Early Music Quartet

Dec 15 2022 64 mins  
Join the trio for a romp through The Story of an Early Music Quartet, Sterling Jones's first-hand account of the rise and fall of the Studio der frühen Musik. The Studio helped set the standard for medieval music performance in the 1960s and influenced future generations of performers as founding members of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Historical Performance Department

Thomas Binkley and Orientalism in the Early Music Movement

Dec 15 2022 80 mins  
In this episode the trio discusses the influence that Middle Eastern traditions may or may not have had on the development of European medieval music, and what modern re-creators of the music (like Thomas Binkley) have learned from studying those traditions. In particular we discuss Binkley's "On the Modern Performance of Medieval Monophonic Repertory," Jonathan Shull's "Locating t

Storytime with Marie de France! Guigemar

Dec 15 2022 75 mins  
In this episode the trio reads aloud an English translation of "Guigemar," an engaging and somewhat strange lai (or tale) by Marie de France, preserved in a manuscript from the 13th c. And of course we provide context and color commentary along the way!Support the showFollow us on Facebook, and sign up to receive not-at-all-frequent email updates!

Trobár Acts?!? The Second Shepherd's Play

Dec 15 2022 34 mins  
Warning: This month’s episode of Trobár Talks is so bad that we can only imagine you all using it as blackmail material years from now. Regardless, we wish everyone a happy holiday season and promise to do better in 2022!! *******In the episode we read excerpts of The Second Shepherds’ Play in a modern translation (with a few semi-appropriate musical insertions).Dover Thrift E

the Anne Azéma episode

Dec 15 2022 71 mins  
In this episode the trio was fortunate enough to snag a conversation with Anne Azéma, French-born vocalist, scholar and stage director, as well as the director of The Boston Camerata since 2008 and the French ensemble Aziman, which she founded, since 2005. We got to hear about Anne's musical training, and chat about the challenges of working with and presenting medieval music to m

Pizan's Pastourelle

Dec 15 2022 59 mins  
In this episode we discuss the poetic pastourelle genre popular with 13th c. French trouvères, and read excerpts from Christine de Pizan's longer narrative pastourelle, the Dit de la pastoure (Tale of the Shepherdess). Medieval pastourelles all begin with the same setup: a knight encounters a shepherdess while he's out riding. The stories play out in a variety of ways, but there i