Troubadours' Discography - General Explanation

Conception & research: Pierre-F. Roberge
For comments, additions and corrections mccomb@medieval.org (continuing this discography for PFR)
Last update: 10/30/1999

Introduction

When a link appears in the table, this is a link to the specific discography of that troubadour. Each discography is divided into three parts.

Part I is a list of lyrics generally attributed to the troubadour, followed by a specific discography. Within each individual entry, after the recording date appears in brackets, a combination of two letters is used:

• (t/m): text and melody by the troubadour
• (t): only text by the troubadour
• (m) only melody by the troubadour
• (t/-) text by the troubadour but melody by someone else
• (-/m) melody by the troubadour but text by someone else
• If a ? follows a letter, attribution is doubtful.

I tried to list titles according to their label and release dates. In the linked section, I tried to follow the track order of recording; in some cases when the recording was not available, the order may need correction by a careful reader owning the disc. In Part I, my goal is to cover all original recordings, but this may well be wishful thinking without comments and corrections. These could be directed to my E-mail address <pfr@videotron.ca>. Credit for any significant contribution will be given at the end of the discography.

Part II is a list of all CD titles (original and transferred from LP, Cassette or 78 rpm) available on the market since the beginning of CD production; the reference is always the most recent release known.

Part III (optional) lists newly released or soon to be released CDs when precise information is not yet available.

References

There are many but I suggest two recent publications that are very comprehensive in their analysis of Troubadours' Songs and Poetry with plenty of references. The first is in English:

Songs of the Troubadours and Trouvères
An Anthology of Poems and Melodies
edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Margaret Switten and Gerard Le Vot
380 pp., 1998 - (Garland references library of the humanities : vol. 1740)
ISBN 0-8153-1341-1
(includes a CD)

The other is in French:

Terre des Troubadours
Gérard Zuchetto
352 pp., 1996 - Édition Paris
ISBN 2-9052-9156-7
(includes a CD)

Also of interest

(1) An educational CD-ROM

Terre des Troubadours / Land of Troubadours
Gérard Zuchetto
Studi - Les Presses Multimedia, 1998
ISBN 3 542291 110206 [CD-ROM, version française or english version - PC/MAC]

(2) And an anthology:

Le Livre d'or des troubadours - Anthologie du XIIe-XIVe siècle Gérard Zuchetto - Jörn Gruber
Les Éditions de Paris - Max Chaleil
310 pp, 1998
ISBN 2-905291-77-X
(Chronological data and spelling of this anthology have been used as the basic reference)

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