Carasaus (''
fl.
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'' 1240–60) was a
French
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* The French (band), ...
trouvère
''Trouvère'' (, ), sometimes spelled ''trouveur'' (, ), is the Northern French ('' langue d'oïl'') form of the '' langue d'oc'' (Occitan) word ''trobador'', the precursor of the modern French word '' troubadour''. ''Trouvère'' refers to po ...
, five of whose works survive. His career can be dated because he dedicates two ''
grand chant
The ''grand chant'' (''courtois'') or, in modern French, (''grande'') ''chanson courtoise'' or ''chanson d'amour'', was a genre of Old French lyric poetry">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginn ...
s'' (''Fine amours m'envoie'' and ''Puis que j'ai chançon meüe'') to
Jehan de Dampierre Jehan is a predominantly male given name. It is the old orthography of Jean in Old French, and is rarely given anymore. It is also a variant of the Persian name Jahan in some South Asian languages.
People with the given name Jehan
* Jahan (nam ...
(died 1259) and another (''N'est pas sage qui me tourne a folie'') to
Henry III of Brabant
Henry III of Brabant ( 1230 – February 28, 1261, Leuven) was Duke of Brabant between 1248 and his death. He was the son of Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen. He was also a trouvère.
The disputed territory of Lothier, the for ...
(reigned 1248–61). Carasaus also dedicated ''Con amans en desesperance'' to a certain Berengier, yet unidentified. Besides ''Fine amours'', which has
pentasyllables, all of Carasaus's works have only
heptasyllables and
decasyllable
Decasyllable (Italian: ''decasillabo'', French: ''décasyllabe'', Serbian: ''десетерац'', ''deseterac'') is a poetic meter of ten syllables used in poetic traditions of syllabic verse. In languages with a stress accent ( accentual ...
s. All his melodies are in
bar form
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Original use
The term comes from the rigorous terminology of the Meistersinger guilds of the 15th to 18th century who used it to refer to their songs and the ...
; but ''Pour ce me sui de chanter entremis'' is also
motivic
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.
References
*Karp, Theodore
"Carasaus."''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Accessed 19 September 2008.
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13th-century French composers
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