Word: tenso
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...court or in the country? Or is place ultimately irrelevant? Should we be content with the "real" world or espouse the pursuit of an idealized pastoral existence? And how can romantic love best function? In the tradition of the medieval and Renaissance poetic contests (such as the debat, disputaison, tenso, and conflictus), the play's cast becomes something of a debating society, and the text is filled with double-entry bookkeeping. This is, then, a highly literary play as well as a highly artificial one. It is also eminently lyrical, although nearly two-thirds of it is written in prose...
...LECTURES ON MEDIAEVAL MUSIC. I. In French: Illustrative Instrumental Music and Song. Professor Jean Beck. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 4.30 P. M. La musique des troubadours: la canso, le sirventes, la tenso, l'alba et la pastourelle provencales...
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