Cantaria -- a library of traditional folk songs o fwestern Europe - Ireland, England, Scotland, France - and contemporary folk songs written in traditional style. Many are fron late medieval and renassiance period styles.

Musical Forms Troubadours and Trouveres Lyric poets or poet-musicians of France in the 12th and 13th centuries. Poets working in the south of France, writing in Provencal (langue d'oc), are generally termed troubadours; those of the north, writing in French (langue d'oil), are called trouv&egraveres. The first centre of troubadour song seems to have been Poitiers; it eventually extended from ...

End of Europe's Middle Ages Troubadour Poetry Written by an anonymous author, Alba is an example of a troubadour song. In orchard where the leaves of hawthorn hide, A lady holds a lover by her side, Until the watcher in the dawning cried. Ah God, ah God, the dawn! It comes how soon. Ah, would to God that never night must end, Nor this my lover far from me should wend, Nor watcher day nor dawning ...