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Il Dit / Elle Dit available now!
Featuring poetry by 15th-c. author Christine de Pizan interspersed with musical selections from her circles, Trobár’s first album Il Dit / Elle Dit explores themes of dialogue, gender dynamics, and equality. Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart gives voice to the poems, expressing both men’s and women’s perspectives on love and courtliness. The music similarly offers a variety of perspectives, sometimes with dialogic texts sung concurrently, by well-known composers such as Machaut, Binchois, and Dufay, as well as by lesser-known or anonymous composers. Many are for equal voices which trade off contrapuntal roles, displaying equality of range as well as function. With performances by voices, vielle, rebec, harp, and flute, Trobár founders Allison Monroe, Elena Mullins Bailey, and Karin Weston weave an aural tapestry of perspectives on French courtly love.
Cover design by Weriem
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